Recently, there has been a push to change some of the names and rhetoric we as technologists use on a daily basis. This blog post explores the technical challenges, side-effects, and process of one such change: renaming default git branches

Learning is a very personal thing. Learning a language is even more so. In this post, I discuss my approach to learning new programming languages in the hope that you will be empowered to find your own way to learn new languages.

The world around us is littered with calls for learning to program. You may think, "I know how to code." Learning to code may be the beginning of the journey, but I posit that even mastering a language should not be the end. It may just be time to learn a new language.

As a polygot programmer, I often find myself needing to write code in a language for which I don't have a development environment setup. Usually, this is for a small or short term project. When these situations arise, I use docker to avoid spending time setting up a full development environment that I may never use again.