Writing On

Software Development

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

These are my thoughts on developing software and working with teams.

Articles

• Working with AI, State of the Union June 2024 (21 Jun 2024)
• On 10 Years of Making Software (30 Nov 2022)
• Heroes and Housekeeping (20 Feb 2020)
• Flatten the Cost-of-Change Curve, you must. (30 Jan 2020)
• Healthy Codebase Habit: Regular Dependency Updates (13 Dec 2019)
• 'Who You Are' is 'What You Do' (27 Jul 2019)
• The Software Developer's Path to Wisdom (09 May 2019)
• A Software Engineering Manifesto (13 Apr 2019)
• An Atlas for Learning React (29 Mar 2019)
• Linux, Entropy, Random Number Generation, and you (09 Mar 2019)
• Refactoring Doesn't Require Domain Knowledge (24 Feb 2019)
• IDEs are dead. Long Live Development Environments. (Part 3) (10 Feb 2019)
• All Web Abstractions Leak (02 Feb 2019)
• The One-Hand Approach to Production Support (26 Jan 2019)
• IDEs are dead. Long Live Development Environments. (Part 2) (12 Jan 2019)
• IDEs are dead. Long Live Development Environments. (Part 1) (05 Jan 2019)
• How does DNS work? (27 Dec 2018)
• The Bad Plus (08 Dec 2018)
• The Serverless Sea Change (07 Dec 2018)