Erik Zaadi

The tales of a coding manager addicted to dad jokes

Recent Posts

Markdown My Words! S3 You Later PowerPoint Building, editing, and deploying slide decks with nothing but Markdown, Bash, and dad puns.
Proudly Unnecessary: A Leadership Tale from the Couch What happens when a manager steps away? A story about trust, resilience, and building a team that scales without you.
LAN Party Guide 2.0: Warsow vs Warfork Your go-to setup guide for hosting classic fast-paced LAN FPS games using Warsow and Warfork—especially if you're on a Mac.
The Silver Bullet for Conference Presentations? There Is No Bullet

Ever sat through a slide deck that felt like reading a spreadsheet on stage?

Presentations are hard — but they don’t have to be painful.

You need have the magic schtick that helps you with the value you want to share.

The problem

Most company templates for presentations might be great for sales pitching on zoom,

BUT, they just don’t work for a stage and crowd.

Slides crammed with KPIs and roadmap bullet points might kill on Zoom. On stage? They kill attention.

Onboarding vim'ers Because people deserve to see the light
How to Use Zsh and Tmuxp to Speed Up Your Day to Day Workflow Again TUI to the rescue
Pull Request Etiquette - A set of simple rules for your code review What human touches you can add to your review processes that'll make you rock
Life is short, make your CI blazing fast The short and simple tale of how a commit SHA-1 can save you time and trouble
Linting Helm Charts in Travis Because even helm deserves some CI love...
The delicate balance between coding and managing The swashbuckling adventure of an evolving manager