Jamie Lawrence

Posts tagged with tech (Page 2)

27 posts

Moving off Heroku, slowly

This is the tale of how we gradually reduced our reliance on Heroku and found a position of power and opportunity

Cloudflare Tunnels for Local Development

Sometimes you need to open up your local dev machine to the internet to show some WIP or receive a webhook. Here's a way to do that using Cloudflare Tunnels that works with subdomains, allows you to test Cloudflare headers, and doesn't cost anything…

The Manager's Stack

As my job has changed from developer to manager, so Sublime Text and iTerm have become less important to me. I’ve substituted my old toolset for a new bunch of tools that help me to manage the dev team at [Podia](https://www.podia.com).

Communication > Coding

Obviously, we need to actually write some code to build the features, and fix the bugs, and refactor away the technical debt. However, often there's a choice and it's in those moments that we should always prioritise communication

The hidden effort in software

The visible progress in rowing is the sliding back-and-forth but the "hidden" effort from your legs is what actually makes you go faster. We should focus on the hidden effort in software too.