https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/Recent content on Duncan MackenzieHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 09 Dec 2023 10:44:59 -0800https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/you-probably-do-not-need-nofollow/Sat, 09 Dec 2023 10:44:59 -0800https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/you-probably-do-not-need-nofollow/The quick summary of this guidance is, don’t use noindex,nofollow when you just mean noindex.https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/finish-what-you-started/Thu, 19 Oct 2023 07:51:45 -0700https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/finish-what-you-started/Software development projects can only have an impact if they make it to production, so instead of having forty partially done bits of work, you should always prioritize having something actually done.https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/importance-of-visibility/Sun, 24 Sep 2023 17:10:16 -0700https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/importance-of-visibility/I’m often asked if I have any advice for other software engineers, and the absolute number one piece of guidance I give is “make sure your work is visible”.https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/rewards-are-a-message/Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:40:16 -0700https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/rewards-are-a-message/I was a manager at Microsoft for about 18 years and for quite a bit of it I was a ‘manager of managers’, which means I often spent time working with my team on how to properly handle annual rewards.https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/evolution-of-microsoft-documentation-sites/Sun, 14 May 2023 14:34:56 -0700https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/evolution-of-microsoft-documentation-sites/I ran through this history recently with someone at work and thought maybe I should post it up online for posterity’s sake.https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/adding-nfc-tags-to-my-photos/Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:39:41 -0800https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/adding-nfc-tags-to-my-photos/I like to take pictures, way too many pictures, and I love putting them up as part of our home decor.https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/domain-names/Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:57:56 -0800https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/domain-names/If you are an established company or organization, you probably have a main second domain.https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/about/Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:54:53 -0700https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/about/I’m an Engineering Manager at Stripe working on their documentation platform and at various times I was the fellow running the team that builds Docs.https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/referrer/Sat, 10 Jul 2021 12:25:00 -0800https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/referrer/Over the years, many people have asked me to give them data on, or act based on, the site that a user is coming from when they hit our pages.https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/image-formats/Sun, 13 Jun 2021 11:53:26 -0700https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/image-formats/The existence of new image formats that offer better quality at smaller file sizes is not a new occurrence.