Written by Lorna Jane
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on Apr. 11, 2022
For most of my career I've been a software developer, but now I'm mostly a communicator. As a manager, I give the right level of detail to many different audiences, and I deliver that in words they can understand. As a Developer Advocate, I explain complex technical concepts in useful, memorable,…
Written by Lorna Jane
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on Mar. 31, 2022
I read a lot of commit messages that make me wonder who the committer had in mind when they wrote it. If you don't read commit messages yourself, I think that can make it even more difficult to think about who the audience is, or when someone would be reading those entries. Perhaps you're writing…
Written by Lorna Jane
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on Feb. 16, 2022
Keeping on top of tasks at work has been a work in progress throughout my career. However now I'm doing a more managerial role, I also need to keep track of all the meetings and preparation/followup work in my meetings. I find my daily log fills so many pages of notebook that I moved my weekly plan…
Written by Lorna Jane
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on Feb. 15, 2022
Whether you are building your own presence, or representing a brand or employer online, it's useful to know what people are saying! Keeping up with all those possible places you should look for news or mentions can be pretty laborious and when things are busy, it's difficult to keep up with this wo…
Written by Lorna Jane
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on Jan. 5, 2022
I'm working almost entirely with docs-as-code setups for prose at work these days and while I do use vim for most of what I do, VSCode is increasingly in the mix. It's just about accessible enough with keyboard shortcuts and the command palette for me, and I thought I'd share the extensions I'm usi…
Written by Lorna Jane
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on Dec. 12, 2021
What happened to my blog? Nothing happened, I still blog ... except then I looked at my site the other day and realised, it's been a while. The blog here at lornajane.net is mumble years old. It is full of things I wanted to write down, and tells the story of most of my career to date. As a softwar…