jonoropeza.com
Making software and software development teams. Mostly the people parts.
Baking and Complexity - August 19th, 2024
Ways my new favorite bread recipe reminds me of software development.
Now - January 6th, 2021
What Jon Oropeza is up to, as of 2024 Q2
Spring Cleaning - April 7th, 2024
A summary of what I'm doing with the blog in early 2024.
Dimensions of Engineering Management Focus - November 2nd, 2021
High level framing to either understand your own career or to assist in interviewing/hiring engineering managers.
Andy Grove's High Output Management and the Three High Impact Activities - July 19th, 2022
Another dimension of engineering management: The three highest impact activities.
Roll Back or Fail Forward - July 4th, 2022
Framing the decision between rolling back or failing forward (or fix-in-place) as a policy for a given experience in a given environment.
Second Lap - September 25th, 2021
In which I discuss my own Second Lap: the idea that, having moved up the promotion ladder from entry level to leadership, you move back to an individual contributor role and start the climb over again..
Joining AllStripes - December 13th, 2020
My move to AllStripes, a Series A healthcare startup aimed at accelerating treatments for rare disease.
On My Way Back - November 30th, 2020
Introducing Dark Four In Cascadia, my first public creative writing project in nearly a decade.
Developer Happiness - July 4th, 2019
Is being happy at work a reasonable expectation?
What The Global Economy Looks Like - July 4th, 2019
Thoughts on Americans working in Europe, and the EU as a federation.
The Best Things I Read In 2023 - December 27th, 2023
The best essays, books, long-form pieces and poems I read in 2023.
Time Is The Toughest Dimension - June 5th, 2021
Time is the toughest dimension to reason about in software development.
Adding CI & CD is a zero hour task - June 1st, 2023
Why I've started adding continuous integration and continuous deployments to all new projects right away, and you should as well.
Art of Travel - April 25th, 2023
The book Art of Travel by John Gregory, how it influenced me to start traveling, and how I've gotten away from its principles
Travel: How Many Nights Should You Stay? - April 7th, 2023
A framework for deciding how many nights to stay at a destination, either on a short trip or as part of a larger trip
Ernest Hemingway's Writing Technique (That Works For Writing Code Too) - February 14th, 2023
Steal this writing technique from Ernest Hemingway: Always stop when you know what happens next.
Models of Automation - February 5th, 2023
Four of the primary models of automating any process
My Writing System For 2023 - January 22nd, 2023
The system I'm using to write, edit and publish in 2023. Stolen from Jerry Seinfeld.
Downtime Prevention Technique: Continuous Deployments - December 8th, 2022
How Continuous Deployments (or CD) reduce downtime, amongst other benefits.
Communications Skills For Leadership Roles (that they don't teach you in school) - January 14th, 2023
Some essential communications skills for any leadership role, not just tech.
Areas and Distances - January 10th, 2023
Do you know which is bigger by area: California, Italy or Japan?
Default Software Development Choices for 2023 - December 5th, 2022
Baseline choices appropriate for teams starting new projects in 2023.
Downtime Prevention Technique: Exit if environment variables are not found - October 22nd, 2022
What to do about app environment variables, and why you should exit if they're not found in software development and programming.
The Two Dimensional Web Skills Stack - September 22nd, 2022
Two dimensions of web skills. Code, and the software development lifecycle. Running the code, operating the code.
The Big List of COVID-19 / Coronavirus Pandemic Resources - July 4th, 2019
A list of high-quality, no political bullshit links related to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
This Coronavirus Sucks - July 4th, 2019
April 2020 And We Have a Global Pandemic
Use Docker and Docker Compose In Your Static Website Developer Workflow - July 4th, 2019
Use Docker and Docker Compose In Your Static Website Developer Workflow
Wisdom On Practices and Principles of Software Development - July 4th, 2019
Thoughts on the Medium post Production Oriented Development by Paul Osman, including commentary on the specific practices and principles he suggests.
Book I Recommend - July 4th, 2019
The Four Key Activities from Andy Grove's High Output Management
Old Blog Post I'm Dredging Up - July 4th, 2019
Software Development Principles
Back In Portland (Again) - April 13th, 2014
Coming back to Portland in Spring, after three weeks working in the Bay Area, and noticing everything I like about the city.
Off To Europe – Newark Airport - May 28th, 1998
Jon Oropeza goes backpacking through Europe in 1998