The Technical: Today’s "Senior Dev Rescue" involves more than just a standard IDE refactor. I’m using...
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Brief updates about my days as a software engineer
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Dev Log 03.12.2026: PR Friction and the Burrito Betrayal
The Technical: Today was a study in communication overhead. Being a Senior Dev on an "emergency" project...
Continue reading...Dev Log 03.25.2026: Grids, SASS, and a Sleeping Frenchie
The Technical: The day job has me deep in a Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce B2B implementation that's in...
Continue reading...Dev Log 03.26.2026: Dashboards, Blanket Forts, and Good News
The Technical: Back at it on the B2B implementation — dashboard improvements and bug fixes today. Nothing...
Continue reading...Dev Log 03.27.2026: Claude Code and FNM
The Technical: Another day on the emergency project, plus some time studying Claude Code. Starting to...
Continue reading...Dev Log 04.06.2026: PRs, Dayseeker, and the AI Reliability Tax
The Technical: PR reviews and customization work on the emergency project today. The kind of day where...
Continue reading...Dev Log 04.07.2026: Tickets, Discord, and a General Malaise
The Technical: Wrapped up a couple of tickets on the emergency project and got through some more PR...
Continue reading...Dev Log 04.14.2026: History Logs, Servers, and Rainy Day Naps
The Technical: Still deep in the emergency B2B project — today's focus was adding history logging to...
Continue reading...Dev Log 04.15.2026: The Cockpit Reset
The Technical: Gave a tech talk to the team today — got a "it was good," which in that context is a...
Continue reading...Dev Log 04.17.2026: Power Save Mode
The Technical: Honestly? Not much code today, and I made peace with that. The brain was in power saver...
Continue reading...Dev Log 04.25.2026: New Rig, Among Other Things
I missed the daily logs all week, so this one's a recap.The Technical: Steady ticket flow on the emergency...
Continue reading...Dev Log 04.28.2026: Staging Fixes, WSL, and a Hard Visit
The Technical: Resolved a high-priority staging site issue today — emergency ticket landed first thing,...
Continue reading...Dev Log 04.29.2026: QA Deep-Dives, Strixhaven, and a Wheel I'm Proud Of
Dev Log 04.29.2026: QA Deep-Dives, Strixhaven, and a Wheel I'm Proud OfThe Technical: Spent most of...
Continue reading...Dev Log 05.01.2026: Pivot and Play
🤓 The Technical: Reviewed and submitted a PR today on the Magento side — built out an inventory history...
Continue reading...Dev Log 05.04.2026: Bereavement Leave
🤓 The Technical: I took the day off from work — the day job involves complex Magento environments, and...
Continue reading...Dev Log 05.18.2026: Twurple, Wheels Within Wheels, and a Canadian Holiday
🤓 The Technical: At the day job, I was mostly blocked — the lead is out for Victoria Day (yes, I looked...
Continue reading...Dev Log 05.20.2026: Seasons, Leaderboards, and the Beginning of Something
🤓 The Technical: Quiet day at the job — PR's been sitting out there with both reviewers assigned, neither...
Continue reading...Dev Log 05.21.2025: Identity Providers and Smoke Detectors
🤓 The TechnicalToday was a tale of two projects. On the day job side, I spent the morning tracking down...
Continue reading...Dev Log 05.26.2026: Symfony 7.4 and Frozen Ziti
🤓 The Technical: First day back at the day job after the long weekend, and the Adobe Commerce B2B push...
Continue reading...Dev Log 05.28.2026: Four Sites on LTS and a Blade Runner Education
🤓 The Technical: The headline today is personal-project work: all four of my Symfony sites are now on...
Continue reading...Dev Log 06.09.2026: Task Board Toggles, Seven Seasons Too Many, and a Good Movie Night
🤓 The Technical: Quiet day on the work side - had a PR to submit and that was mostly it. The personal...
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