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The one thing every experienced engineer gets wrong

2026-07-11 08:00:00

In the last few months every engineer I hired stumbled in exactly the same way: Project management. They learned quickly, but that first big project has become a rite of passage.

Theory of constraints, AI, and code review

2026-07-06 08:00:00

Feedback from an expert is how you learn taste. Your code doesn't matter until it's shipped.

Using vibes to rewrite my blog

2026-06-27 08:00:00

The death of engineering has been greatly exaggerated. You still need to know what you're doing.

You get what you hire

2026-06-23 08:00:00

Hiring engineers is like deciding what kind of system you'll have. This seems obvious but surprised me to see first-hand.

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.