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ICYMI | Don't lie in interviews

· One min read
Drew Robson
Consultant

I'm somewhat sympathetic to the "man I need the job" line but this "well a manager lied to me first?" thing – just play the fucking tape forward. Just put your anti-capitalist self-righteousness on hold for one goddamned second and think. If your model is "it's okay to lie if I've been lied to" then we're all knee deep in bullshit forever and can never escape Transaction Cost Hell.

Don't lie in interviews

Better communication with Greenshot

· 2 min read
Drew Robson
Consultant

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Software development is a team sport, so any tool or process which helps individuals communicate better will improve the team’s performance. Images are an easy way to cut through confusion, and Greenshot makes image-based communication incredibly easy.

Greenshot is a free, light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows. Install it via Chocolatey from https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/greenshot. Once installed, Greenshot will sit in the background waiting to be used via hotkeys.

Export your Azure Infrastructure as an SVG with AzViz

· 2 min read
Drew Robson
Consultant

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Software development is a team sport, so any tool or process which helps individuals communicate better will improve the team’s performance. Images are an easy way to cut through confusion, but it can be difficult to get a visual representation of your Azure Infrastructure. Providing this visual representation is very helpful in presenting or analysing your current state infrastructure, so here’s an easy way to generate it via a command line tool.

Azure Visualizer, aka ‘AzViz’ is a PowerShell module which automatically generates Azure resource topology diagrams as an SVG.

On writing as an obligation

· 3 min read
Drew Robson
Consultant

What you are reading is just my latest attempt at a blog and aspirations of regular writing. My life is littered with the remenants of unfinished projects, including multiple started-then-discarded blogs. I choose a host and a platform, struggle to write a couple of posts, and then abandon it. I could never understand why this could or should be the case, until I came across this post by Slava Akhmechet.

A few days ago I realized something. I don’t like writing.