Back on the notes grind...

What I Did

• ZiffDavis Shopping is getting close to our Super Bowl -- Black Friday and Cyber Monday
• wrote a PHP CLI tool that will mimic an existing Python job and emit events for updating reward budgets as we pay folks out
• diving deeper into Laravel Nova actions and creating code for doing CSV exports of selected Eloquent models

Longer Threads

I got asked a question on social media about how to handle things when you come onto a team as Staff-level engineer and getting them to commit to making things more maintainable.

I could do a whole talk about this, but let me summarize a few points.

1) talk to the people YOU report TO and get expectations on quality and output 2) ruthlessly enforce those expectations with your team 3) make team understand they are building new habits while delivering what the business wants 4) the path to maintainable code is through being able to write tests for it