The One Eyed Dev

Latest — 12 Mar 2025

Incentives

So a few weeks ago I started this blog full of vim and vigor, ready to commit to building something and putting down to digital text all the lessons I’ve learned and, well… Then I got a cold. Nothing too bad, but it sapped away some of my energy.

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The Engineering Prime Directive

I was going to about what I think a good engineer does (or what they believe) and it turns out before you can talk about that, you've got to talk about what underlies everything else. I'm still working out the niceties of what I think, but

Oh my god, just do something

Wherein the author begs you (and himself) to, for the love of god, just start. One expression that has always stuck with me is "Start as you mean to go on." I couldn't tell you where I picked it up, except that I heard it somewhere