The most dangerous employee in a toxic workplace is not the lazy one. It is the competent one. On insecure leaders and the people they manage out.

Good people don't want to be micromanaged. They also don't want to be led by nobody. On the pressure of hiring people better than yourself.

Auto-increment IDs are perfect until you have more than one server. Offsets, ticket servers, and the answer that actually works.

Being able to automate half of a job does not mean you have automated half of the jobs. A thought on where the value of work actually sits.

What this site is for, and why things here get built instead of bought.