10 min
Something that can go red
Somebody asked me for something to read about naming conventions, so I sent them a post I wrote in 2015 and then made the mistake of reading it myself.
Careers
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9 min
Nobody demos an upgrade
The best possible outcome of a migration is that nothing happens, which looks exactly the same from the outside as having done nothing at all.
9 min
I asked what it sold for
A proposal came back to me for a wording check and my own estimate was in it with a dollar sign in front of it, which is when I figured out that I'd been setting prices for years without being told.
7 min
The note I wrote in 2021
I priced out everything my job gave me that wasn't salary, and two years later every number on that list belongs to a market that ended.
8 min
The fourth going-away call
Three people have left the agency since April, all three going-away parties happened on a video call, and last week I gave notice and made it four.
8 min
Saying no
A client asked for a pop-up in the last minute of a December call and I said yes, because no on its own hands somebody a problem and I had nothing ready to say after it.
10 min
They deleted the line
I asked a junior developer why a line was there, meaning it literally, and they deleted it, which is roughly when I understood that my job title had been doing the talking.
7 min
Logic in templates
A category page was slow and it turned out to be six lines I had copied into a template months earlier, which is how I found out I'd been writing a language I kept telling people I don't write.