For many, it’s the season of performance reviews. I’ve been through these many times, as an employee and as a manager. In this article, I’ve distilled down the advice I find myself giving over and over again. cdoyle.me/performance-re…

Questionable button placement in a payment flow is one thing, but it should always be intuitive to complete a basic safety flow in a vehicle. cdoyle.me/actively-dange…

Apple seem to be coming around to the idea that they need some version of sideloading to comply with the EU's Digital Markets act. cdoyle.me/apple-to-offer…

I absolutely subscribe to Rich Archbold's theory of running less software, and trust me, you should too. cdoyle.me/run-less-softw…

I've worked for companies that have been acquired, ones that did the acquiring, and ones where the leadership has changed overnight. The common thread is that the values evolved. So when this happens, how do you adapt? Or should you? cdoyle.me/how-do-we-adap…

Anil Dash on Documenting cdoyle.me/anil-dash-on-d…

Searching in Slack seems like a superpower, but it’s actually surprisingly easy to master. Here’s six things you can start doing today. cdoyle.me/how-to-search-…

The kids these days will never know the simple pleasure of a Good Friday house party where everyone was drinking not because they wanted to, but because the government told them they couldn’t.

Workplace, you’ll be missed. cdoyle.me/meta-will-shut…

Whilst I’m loving the updates, I find myself confused about what Ghost are trying to build with ActivityPub. cdoyle.me/refreshingly-h…

Take it from someone who worked at Slack for many years. If your channel naming scheme uses underscores instead of hyphens, you’re doing it wrong. If you don’t even have a channel naming scheme, you’re definitely doing it wrong.

If you’ve never worked using the Stacked PRs git strategy, you’re missing out. It’s absolutely the most productive way to collaboratively write code. cdoyle.me/stacked-prs-th…

Great article by Colm Doyle on stacking! Cool to see more and more engineers using Stacked PRs to boost their development speed 🚀 cdoyle.me/stacked-prs-th…

Some footage of the #gorsefire in Dublin today.

For a lot of organisations, it's performance review season, and many people don't really understand how the process works beyond "I need to write my review" - I’ve seen the process in many high performing teams, so I wrote my thoughts down a while back. cdoyle.me/demystifying-p…