Bruce is Undeveloped, but maybe development will help – learn with me!
I am an overachiever. I've always set out to excel at things, and I'm not particularly ambitious or choosy about what those things are. Working the breakfast shift in a hotel kitchen was definitely not what my parents hoped for me when I got my degree in Environmental Earth Sciences - but in everyday ways,… Continue reading The Power of Small Goals
(note: this is like one of those recipe pages where the life story is at the top, recipes at the bottom, feel free to scroll past the fluff) What is up my friends! It's been a while, and I thought I'd kick us back off with a fun post about how I draw. I've split… Continue reading The Drawing Process
Welp it's that time again! (Or a bit later - I did this in October in 2018 and 2019!) It is time to find out how much Undeveloped Bruce has Developed in the last year! What is this and why did you agree to do a double self retro? So I was really struggling to… Continue reading Personal Development 2020 Retro
Okay so I decided I'd like to do the Professional Scrum Master 1 assessment. I realised that I don't have any fancy letters to my name, no qualifications or certifications whatsoever that are anything to do with tech or testing. Not saying you need fancy letters to be good at a job, but sometimes it's… Continue reading How I studied for the PSMI certification
Do you hear the same voices over and over in your social calls? Or maybe you get awkward silences instead? Or maybe you don't even have social calls!! In which case you should totally try a social lean coffee!
This is something a bit quick and different, since I reckon not enough of you know what absolute legends you are. Which is a total travesty, to be honest. How can you not know??! I decided recently to find more ways of making the people around me realise how awesome they are. So I guess… Continue reading A Legendary Showcase
TL;DR: I don't do 1-1s with my manager so I do them with myself instead, usually while crying at my desk or banging my head against it. Some things never change, eh? Tips at the bottom! (If you haven't read much of my blog before, you should know that crying at my desk is just… Continue reading The Self Retrospective
Okay that last post was a bit of a heavy topic, right? Goodness me! Too stressful, too stressful, I’m telling you - I got nothing done ALL WEEK from terror after posting that! XD You'll be glad to know I'm back on cheerier stuff - you may or may not have heard of the Rockstar… Continue reading Compiling a Rock Ballad that Compiles
What's it like being non-binary in tech? Bruce spills the beans and other click-baity lines! Seriously though, read if you want to know some of the challenges, to help you become a better ally!
TL;DR: I wrote a short script that returns a random quote from a list of nice things people have said about me, to combat quarantine pants-ness while working from home. Being an introvert by nature, I'm not suffering too badly in isolation (after an initial period of adjustment and complaining) but there is one big… Continue reading Three lines of Python to brighten your day
Undeveloped Bruce 