In my previous post on the new engineering leadership skills needed in a devops world, I called for a more systematic approach to developing leadership capabilities in engineering. But I gave no answers. In this post, I'll share my practical approach to developing leadership capabilities in an engineering organisation. When developing great software, there are some … [Read more...] about A Practical Approach to Engineering Leadership
A Production-Quality Flutter Starter App
Flutter is a cross-platform UI framework that quickly gained traction. Back in mid-2018, it was made available as a release preview. Since then it has moved from an immature technology to a fairly robust foundation for building cross-platform apps. The starter app I tinkered with back then to explore the limitations has become a source for many new (and some experienced) … [Read more...] about A Production-Quality Flutter Starter App
Wanted: a New Set of Engineering Leadership Skills
A while ago I did a series on how key roles in the engineering organisation changes as a result of introducing devops practices. I covered the software architect, the program manager (at that time I was at Cisco and some of the projects were huge), and the product owner, but left out the engineering manager and the product manager as other priorities called. In this post, I … [Read more...] about Wanted: a New Set of Engineering Leadership Skills
Latest Spark Army Knife Features
It's been a while since last time I wrote an update on new Spark Army Knife features, and I have added some really cool ones lately! You find a complete list of commands here. Note! Many of the Spark Army Knife commands can be run in a group room, and the output is sent to the 1:1 room with the Army Knife bot. In addition, the command is deleted to avoid cluttering the group … [Read more...] about Latest Spark Army Knife Features
Secure Mac OSX sleep, standby, and hibernation
The last few years I have wasted my share of hours to understand how Mac OSX various sleep states work. My main challenge has been that I encrypt the harddrive, and from a security point of view, that doesn't help much if you have the computer in sleep mode with the key in memory (however, you don't need to use FileVault disk encryption to find these notes helpful). First of … [Read more...] about Secure Mac OSX sleep, standby, and hibernation
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