The personal blog of Scott Polhemus

Have you ever shed tears over a comic book? I’m not ashamed to admit that I have. For me it was Zeb Wells’ beautifully written issue 11 of Avenging Spider-Man with art by Steve Dillon and Frank Martin, a stunning meditation on overcoming grief that I discovered recently at just the moment when I needed…

Tech debt is the boogeyman of every fast-paced software team. It’s the malicious and secretive force lurking in the corners of your legacy codebase waiting to spring bugs and performance issues onto poor defenseless users when they least expect it, or the necessary evil you pay sacrifice to in service to the ever-demanding roll of…

I recently decided to start writing more, so naturally one of my first steps in procrastinating from actually doing so was to figure out how to set up a custom website for my blog in 2024. While I could easily spin up an account on one of the many platforms that exist these days which…