A few months ago, I moved my drift-detection skill out of my repo templates and into a central richwklein/skills repo. I wrote about that migration at the time, and I ended it with a small promise: the central repo “gave me a home for the next skill I build.”Two skills have moved…
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I have used the Pomodoro Technique on and off for years. When it works, it works because it is small. Pick one thing, work on it for twenty-five minutes, stop before your attention decays too far, then decide what comes next.The hard part is not the timer. The hard part is choosi…
I had six active projects under my personal GitHub account and six slightly different versions of the same configuration. Some had CodeQL scanning enabled. Others did not. Two had branch protection rulesets. Three had the correct license year. The rest had whatever year I happene…
Creating an account with the IRS is one of those tasks that sounds simple until you actually try to finish it. What should have been a straightforward self-service task turned into several failed attempts, a week-long wait to get access to a live person, and then another hour on …
As a software engineer, staying healthy can be a real challenge. Long hours in front of a screen, the demands of deep focus, and the mental load of context-switching do not exactly lend themselves to great habits. Add in the complexity of working across time zones with a shortene…
I’ve been deeply disheartened by the politics and polarization in this country — not just because of the headlines themselves and what they represent, but because of how quickly we rush to share them. We often hit “reshare” before we ask:Is this true?Who benefits from this narrat…
Most engineering teams don’t fail because they lack information. They fail because the context lives in someone’s head.As work has shifted toward remote and async-first collaboration, written communication has become the primary interface between humans. Pull requests, issue comm…
I’m not an expert in AI or prompt engineering, but I do use AI tools regularly in both my personal and professional life. Along the way, I’ve learned a few things worth sharing. These simple strategies can help you get better results when using tools like ChatGPT.The examples in …
The Power and Messiness of GitGit is the backbone of modern software development, providing a powerful way to track, manage, and collaborate on code. Whether you’re working solo on a passion project, contributing to open-source, or juggling multiple enterprise repositories, Git k…
