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There's an old xkcd. Guy says "make me a sandwich." Gets refused. Says "sudo make me a sandwich."...

The network is reliable; Latency is zero; Bandwidth is infinite; The network is secure; Topology...

The previous parts of this series were written from a comfortable distance. I read the Trend Micro...

A decision memo for anyone staring at their package.json and wondering. Most arguments for leaving...

Everyone's writing specs for AI now. We hand the model a markdown file, tell it what we want, and...

Every few months, a new round of "which TypeScript ORM should we use?" breaks out — on team chats, on...

12 months ago I set a goal: ship a production-ready CLI for the ecosyste.ms API, in Python. Some...

Every few weeks a take goes viral in tech circles making the case for ditching cloud AI and running...

There's a particular kind of humbling that happens when you sit down to write a book and realize you...

The design challenge isn't understanding board games. It's turning prose rules into structures a...

A powerful thing a tech lead can say isn't an answer. It's an honest admission — about your team's...

Some teams deploying software to AWS have two registries and think of them as a logistics detail. One...

Most projects start with a vague idea and a Jira board. The gap between "we should build X" and "here...

A while ago I wrote about how I was fed up enough with project management tools to build my own. No...

Suppose you need to produce a physical set of Agile Workshop Tokens for your development team. Forty...

The move to microservices was supposed to be a liberation. We broke free from the monolithic chains,...

For a while, engineering teams have been trapped in a false dichotomy, a binary choice that has...

The arrival of DevOps promised a revolution, but for many, it has become a frustrating exercise in...

The arrival of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) promised a fundamental shift in how we manage our digital...

Another weekend, another rabbit hole. This time, it started with a game called Golden Lap. If you...

I created the organization for the release of the game prototypes I mentioned. Here is the...

What My Dad Taught Me About Context (and Why I Keep Jira in My...

The Bus Factor Analyzer takes a deliberately minimalist approach to dependencies. With only five...

The recent Shai-Hulud supply chain attack on the NPM ecosystem has reminded the javascript...

Recently, I have been working on a small side project that involves creating a command-line interface...

LLM generated or not. Stop letting a machine generate only the words that you want to hear and start...

Sometimes the breaking point comes not from a single catastrophic failure, but from the slow...

*A hard look at effort-based pricing and the hidden cost of being a paying beta tester * Let me be...

The traditional software development cycle—requirements, design, implementation, testing—often...

Left shifting refers to moving software development lifecycle activities to earlier stages in the...