Category: Announcements!

Office Hours: Ask a Senior Engineer on Fridays from 9am to 3pm CEST

November 28, 2025

I’m starting something simple to help fellow engineers.

Over the last few months, people reached out with questions about direction, strategy, and “what actually matters” when trying to get hired in Europe/Sweden. It was in response to an off-the-cuff post during the summer (the Hug-a-Platform-Engineer one).

I’m grateful actually for some of the humor getting lost in translation! It’s opened up an opportunity to do something new.

So, I’m starting a weekly series: Office Hours: Ask a Senior Engineer on Fridays from 9am to 3pm CEST.

If you’re a junior engineer, a career-switcher, mid-and-stuck, senior-and-stuck, or just trying to break into engineering in the EU, drop one question below.

Anything about:
* skill focus
* job search strategy
* what EU/Sweden roles really require
* technical direction
* getting unstuck

To make it easier, here’s an example:

Question
“I’m a platform engineer outside of Europe. How do I get noticed by EU teams?”

Mini-answer
Make one small public project that demonstrates reliability work — something like a simple service with a playbook + basic telemetry. Show deployment with CI and basic secrets management. Hiring managers trust what they can see, and you can build credibility in 2–4 weeks this way.

So, that’s it!

What’s one question you want clarity on?

I’ll pick one each week, and I’ll answer it honestly and practically — no grift, no sales pitch.

Verifying Android Bundles Before Publishing

November 28, 2025

I posted last week about writing some scripts to sanity-check and validate Android bundles before uploading to Google Play Store (and having them rejected!).

I’ve made the scripts – one for AABs and APKs – open source as public gists.

curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/minademian/71a5a3d0243496ce6a2a49956c01e4cd/raw/05189c8da3c8833595546a68325a3617cbd1944f/verify_aab_release.sh | bash
curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/minademian/6e841c8e1a84308c6b3dc937a2d4a4cd/raw/4768df88d3d3111c134700c0637ed030a97af3a9/verify_apk_release.sh | bash

You can take it one step further and add it to your precommit hook, using the hook management tooling of your choice.

It will look like this:

yarn test || exit 1 # script in package.json: "bash./scripts/verify_aab_release.sh", yarn validate-packages || exit 1 npx lint-staged || exit 1

Meet My Second-Born: yarn-shell-completion!

November 10, 2025

Continuing my foray into OSS, I’ve been spending more time with my first (tech) love of the command-line and am teaching myself how to write shell completion scripts.

Second-born: yarn-shell-completion! https://github.com/ursine-code/yarn-shell-completion

Big h/t to @Felipe Contreras on YouTube for inspiring me to delve into this area of engineering and making it easy(-ish) to get into!



Upcoming Project: JIRA Worklogs Microsoft Teams Bot

November 9, 2025

I’ve been working on a concept over the last month, to explore a different way of inputting time reports on Fridays with Atlassian’s JIRA Worklogs module.

To exercise my system design thinking and writing muscles, I put together a design for my solution. The solution is running locally, but still not working with an actual live Teams instance. Debugging Microsoft Teams Apps Marketplace is… painful.

Code is here, demo coming soon!

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