Steve Fenton is a programmer, (hands-on) architect, and theory-y/human-centric manager mostly working around the .NET space. He enjoys creating software that makes a difference to people’s lives; such as mail transfer agents with zero-day threat detection or clinical decision support engines. Steve has been active in the whole DevOps life-cycle and enjoys coaching people on agile and lean methods (and the theories behind them). He also enjoys finding fractal principles; such as those found in monitoring and alerting, or in queuing theory.
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A Note From Steve
This is my personal journal where I store ideas, notes, and information to supplement my biological abilities. My interests are programming, psychology, philosophy and critical thinking, and the Oxford Comma. The journal largely covers the order software progressio and the families modum translitterandi, processus, and populus. I am also secretly S. M. Fenton the author of The Vanishing Room.
Recent Journals
You can review my full archive of journals, but the most recent entries are listed below.
- HTML Challenge: Toggle Switch vs Checkbox Posted in: Programming - The toggle switch has very suddenly become a ubiquitous feature of web user interfaces. You can't hardly fill in an…
- Set a Minimum Font Size Posted in: Programming - This is just a little script I needed to use to increase text size conditionally. It only increases text below…
- Can You Average Averages in Your Analytics? Posted in: Analytics - There is a common question that crops up in analytics, which is can you average your averages. The short answer…
- Manager vs Individual Contributor vs Lubricator Posted in: Process - You can't have been following leadership literature for very long if you haven't heard of manager time vs individual contributor…
- Advertising Experiment: What are Annoying Adverts Worth Posted in: Opinion - Firstly, to list of the sampling issues with this experiment would mean a near-infinite scrollbar. The intention here is not…
- Half-Donut Charts are Still Pie Charts Posted in: Pie Charts - It was recently hinted to me that half-donut charts are a better alternative to pie charts. As I really dislike…
- Tragic Competition Posted in: Opinion - Tragic Competition occurs when the service fragments between many service providers, and each charges a similar subscription. For example, you…
- The Definitive Decadic Reference: Gifting Back the New Decade Posted in: Opinion - As we entered 2020, you will have no doubt heard people celebrating the new decade. Just as certainly, you will…
- Manipulating Variables in JMeter Posted in: Automation, Programming - There are many reasons for manipulating variables in JMeter, especially when you are loading data from a CSV data set…
- Budgets Not Estimates Posted in: Process - This is an early view over a process we are experimenting with in my organisation; budgets not estimates. It represents…