For good or bad, my current Git workflow does not include merges, but rebasing. It keeps the history cleaner, works with the established workflow (pretty standard GitHub flow) just no merge commits. I was trying to find a nice graph of the master branch, but coming from a GitLab background it isn't hard to find this information in the GitLab…
Slack is a wonderful communication tool, I love how easy it is to get in touch with my co-workers, but it is also a huge time suck which I have become slightly addicted to. It is way to easy to start browsing through a channel, start checking on the pinned items (#living-vicariously, I'm looking at you), and then look up…
We just got through a full company retreat. Thinking back over my career, this might be the first company that I worked at that actually did one of those. I have down team things before, and had all company meetings, but not a full on retreat. It was great to see the entire company come together to work on a…
I have been working in Ruby and Rails a couple weeks now, but I don't know if I have been entirely happy with any of the editors/IDE that I have worked with. Coming from a Java background I used Eclipse/Spring Tool Suite for all my development work. I knew the short cuts, how to browse quickly and easily, and nothing…