The Famous Last Pull

software-development Featured

Migrating from Google Sheets to AWS DynamoDB

So you used Google Sheets as a database. Whoops. Here's what Wrapmate did to migrate from a spreadsheet to DynamoDB.

leadership

Speaking Engagement: Startup CTO Tech Summit 2023

Info on my upcoming chat with Glorium Technologies at the 2023 Startup CTO Tech Summit!

book-review

Book Review: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us

Drasner's book is a fresh, valuable look at engineering management principals from the perspective of a developer-turned-manager.

technology

The Hockey Stick

2022 was a blur, thanks to the hockey stick growth we experienced at Wrapmate. This post commits to sharing more about it in the near future.

automation

Never Send an Automated Message Outside of Business Hours Again

In this tutorial, learn how a transactional email sequence throttle can be tweaked to only execute during business hours.

transference-learning

Giving a Stamp of Approval

Gain an interviewing superpower from an unlikely source: a 2013 indie game about the cold war.

tenacity

Never Give Up (Part 2)

The conclusion of my 30-year quest to identify a song, with a surprise ending.

tenacity Featured

Never Give Up

Ever get frustrated when you can't remember the name of a song? Here's my story of a 30-year obsession to get an answer.

automation

There's Something About Factorio

Scrap the business books. If you want a real-life lesson in scaling your business, look no further than Factorio.

automation

Enhancing Wordle Scorekeeping with Zapier

Encourage some healthy competition with this Zapier tutorial that automates Wordle scorekeeping.

product-management

Powerful Roadmaps Look Like Outrun

Nearly all product roadmaps suffer from one major flaw. The solution is buried in a hit racing video game from 1986.

digital-design

Favorite Discourse Themes

Here's a collection of incredibly well-designed visual themes for the open source forum platform Discourse.

software-development

Embracing NoCode

Should you embrace NoCode? It depends on what you are using it for. Here's how to tell if your use case is appropriate or not.

time management

The Calendly Problem Isn't Calendly

When someone sends you a Calendly link, it's about them. Contrary to popular belief, not everything is about you.

management

The Most Important Meeting of the Week

In our never-ending quest to remove meetings from our calendars, one meeting must forever remain, and its absence should concern you.

wrapmate

What Might Have Been

Take a trip behind the scenes and explore a radical early concept of Wrapmate's Transformers-themed Civic Type R.

software-development

Welcoming AI Overlords for Fun & Profit

AI isn't coming for our jobs...it's coming to *help* our jobs. Here's why.

leadership

Leading With Empathy: Video

Maybe we ought to stop repeating the mistakes of the past and care a little more about the people we employ.

ux

GDD: Game Driven Development

Business software development has a lot to learn from the gaming industry -- they've solved problems we still struggle with.

wrapmate

Wrapmate in Forza Horizon (UPDATED)

Wrapmate has custom designs in Forza - read this post to grab the Forza codes to try them out!

I'm back

I can't quite remember the exact date of my last post, but it feels like it was a lifetime ago. If you're someone who followed my writing closely, I last left you with an evolutionary step: my transition from simple software developer to professional software development manager. That was 7