March 2026

Theme of the month: Endings. My wife and I sold our house in order to move and I wrapped up a big project at work so that I can tackle some accounting integrations. Where My Time Went I finished a big lift and shift project of over 20 years of sales data between database servers. It was one of the smoother projects that I've done so far. Not no bugs, but fewer! The difference was becoming obsessed with proving what I'm shipping which revealed a lot of incorrect assumptions that saved me in this project. Small Wins With fzf and tmux, I dramatically improved my ability to navigate my system on the command line and store windows associated with projects that I'm working on. Heavily inspired by tmux-sessionizer Before some stakeholders were about to show off a feature I had worked on to the whole staff, it started hard failing. Under pressure, I was able to locate and fix the bug in about 5 minutes! Worth A Read Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work — reign it in, cowboy AI m