Month: October 2023

  • How I Plan Software Projects: Creating a Timeline

    How I Plan Software Projects: Creating a Timeline

    It will come to the point in every Individual Contributor’s life that they’ll be asked to lead or assist in the planning of a project. How and when this comes will depend on a lot on the company and your specific career trajectory, but sooner or later, the request comes for us all. It starts…

  • Murky Consent in Software: GDPR & CCPA

    Murky Consent in Software: GDPR & CCPA

    I was working in ad-tech when GDPR went live in 2018. It was a fever dream of sitting in stuffy meetings with product and leadership as they tried to decide what exactly counted as PII (Privately Identifiable Information), what did not and how much of a pain it would be to completely remove that information…