Engineering & Leadership
Pat
Hermens
.NET Developer turned Engineering Manager. Writing about technical craft, leading teams, and the messy overlap between the two, as part of a highly 'Agentic' world.
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Engineering Migrating from Jekyll to AstroAfter eight years on Jekyll and GitHub Pages, I redesigned hermens.com.au from scratch using Astro - new design, better reading experience, and a migration script that handled most of the heavy lifting.
Migrating from Jekyll to Astro
After eight years on Jekyll and GitHub Pages, I redesigned hermens.com.au from scratch using Astro - new design, better reading experience, and a migration script that handled most of the heavy lifting.
Faster, Smaller, Cheaper... Better?
Examining the rapid evolution of AI models and questioning whether faster, smaller, and cheaper necessarily means better for developers and society.
Adding Mastodon references to my Jekyll site
Adding Mastodon social links and verification to a Jekyll-based blog site.
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Aussie engineer and manager, now back in Sydney after five years in the Netherlands. 15+ years writing .NET code, several years leading engineering teams. I give conference talks, coach other developers, and write here about what I'm learning.