The support for custom features in Dev Containers is a huge improvement to the process of customizing images quickly and easily. The convenience and simplicity can have a cost -- performance. Trying to customize a container using a feature recently, I struggled with an incredibly long build time. This is how I improved the process.

GitHub Actions allows you to create matrix builds to execute steps multiple times with different parameters. Fun tip -- those parameters can be dynamic. You can define them programmatically!

Java makes it surprisingly easy to manage and package complex projects using Apache Maven. One question I'm frequently asked -- how does this integrate with GitHub Actions? Turns out that the answer is "surprisingly well!"

Last week, we examined common myths about time. Software also has hero myths, which harm developers and limit productivity in astounding ways.

Time is a precious resource. Did you know it's also the source of common myths among managers? And those myths can drain productivity (and happiness) from teams...