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*People* detangle a ball of mud

2025-11-15 08:00:00

Ball of mud is the world's most popular software architecture. The one we all use at work. But it sucks to work with. So what do you do?

AI fills my day with busywork

2025-11-11 08:00:00

Remember when AI was gonna take our jobs? I've never felt busier. The more I get done, the more there is to do.

The unreasonable effectiveness of stack ranking

2025-11-04 08:00:00

Stakeholders are silly people. Everything feels important and urgent. Stack ranking helps

Chesterton's true lesson

2025-10-29 08:00:00

Too many engineers cry chestertons fence and never check why the code exists

The job behind the job [of a high level IC]

2025-10-25 08:00:00

Advancing big goals while you stay on top of operational day-to-day fires _is the job_. This is hard. Here are a few tips I've found helpful.

Make sure it works first

2025-10-21 08:00:00

Explore the importance of functionality over elegance in Swizec's latest piece. Learn from his experience of tripling an engineering team's size within a year.