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Code is the easy part, or how we refactored half the business to fix a janky script

2026-06-17 08:00:00

This is a classic startup war story: Someone had built a leaky rowboat. It worked! Then we started flying the rowboat as a Cessna. What we needed was an aircraft carrier.

Good software gets out of the way

2026-06-04 08:00:00

Explore the art of invisible software and user-centric workflow design with Swizec and Kent C Dodds. Uncover what separates a good engineer from a great one in this insightful dialogue.

Relentlessly focus on the outcomes

2026-05-26 08:00:00

AI makes it easy to focus inwards and feel impressed with all the churn and motion and output you're producing. But your users don't care.

Engineering levels aren't about skill anymore

2026-05-19 08:00:00

Traditional engineering levels were about skill progression. I think this has changed. Everyone now is a mini staff engineer.

Just fix their PR

2026-05-13 08:00:00

You know what's better than a code review comment? A fix.

"But if AI does it all, what's *my* job?"

2026-05-09 08:00:00

On AI, mental load, and delegation