Kris Walker

Building on the Web since 1999

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  • How to build a great software engineering team.

    Published 24th of May 2025

    Great teams build great software.

  • Make Your Own Luck

    Published 18th of Jul 2024

    Luck plays a role in our successes and failures. But, we can take deliberate action to make ourselves a target for good luck.

  • The Vintage Software Engineer

    Published 9th of Feb 2023

    I tend to downplay new things in software which people are generally excited about. Perhaps unfairly.

  • My Gear for a Winter Great Range Traverse

    Published 23rd of Feb 2018

    What I learned during preparation, training, and practice for the Adirondack Great Range Traverse.

  • Winter Traverse of the Adirondack Great Range

    Published 20th of Feb 2018

    Testing the limits of moving quickly over the rugged Adirondack wilderness in the Winter. I learned a lot about myself and the mountains in the process.

  • Solve Hard Problems

    Published 22nd of Aug 2016

    There is a reluctance work on valuable problems in software because of a bias toward the 'easily' scalable ones.

Kris Walker

Building on the Web since 1999

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