Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
26 May 2025
Not everything that matters in software makes noise. Some of the most important things our applications do happen quietly. In the background. Polling. Syncing .Cleaning up. Keeping the lights on without ever blocking a user request or lighting up a dashboard.
Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
19 May 2025
There’s a moment in every project where the translation breaks down. Engineers are speaking in systems. Executives are speaking in outcomes. And too often, no one is really listening to each other.I’ve spent most of my career standing in that gap.
Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
12 May 2025
Early in my career, I rebuilt a wizard engine in a .NET WebForms app. It was dynamic, elegant, fast, and borderline indecipherable. It worked. But it didn’t live well. I’ve come to learn that the best code isn’t the most inventive. It’s the most understandable. Simple code invites collaboration. It survives context loss. It doesn’t need to be decoded six months later.
Posted by Stephen Wrighton on
05 May 2025
There was a time when resumes were crafted solely for human eyes -- when paper weight, typography, and a well-chosen phrase mattered more than algorithms or parsing engines. Today, we write for two audiences. The machine that scans for keywords and patterns, and the human who still craves a story.