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New Jan 17, 2026
A tough job market is the best time to start something
Here's how to navigate a tough job market from someone dumb enough to have done it before....
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New Jan 14, 2026
Place good startup bets
You can't win every bet. Your goal is to be a little more right than wrong and keep...
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New Jan 10, 2026
Small projects, clear scope
Minutes of planning save you days of programming. It is shocking how little planning it takes to make a big...
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New Jan 6, 2026
A better way to end-to-end test your webapp
End-to-end tests are the best way to test your webapp, but they're flaky and annoying to write. I'm trying a new agentic approach that fixes the...
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New Jan 2, 2026
2025 Year in Review
I called it a year in review but it's so much...
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New Dec 25, 2025
Are you playing games you want to win?
As we enter the funny week-without-time between Christmas and New Year, it's a great time to reflect. Here's a framework I like to...
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New Dec 9, 2025
How good engineering unlocks fast scaling
You're building systems and tools to help companies grow without drowning in work. This fuels your equity, career capital, and...
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New Dec 8, 2025
Scaling Fast – my new book on software engineering through the hockeystick
After almost 3 years of writing, research, and editing Scaling Fast is now available in paperback and ebook wherever books are sold...
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New Nov 22, 2025
What makes your resume stand out
What did you do, for whom, did it...
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New Nov 19, 2025
How to lead a project
you were asked to lead or own a project. Now what? Here are a few practical steps to help you...
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New Nov 15, 2025
*People* detangle a ball of mud
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...
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New Nov 11, 2025
AI fills my day with busywork
Remember when AI was gonna take our jobs? I've never felt busier. The more I get done, the more there is to...
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New Nov 4, 2025
The unreasonable effectiveness of stack ranking
Stakeholders are silly people. Everything feels important and urgent. Stack ranking...
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New Oct 29, 2025
Chesterton's true lesson
Too many engineers cry chestertons fence and never check why the code...
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New Oct 25, 2025
The job behind the job [of a high level IC]
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...
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New Oct 21, 2025
Make sure it works first
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...
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New Oct 16, 2025
Feedback is a strange thing
Performance oscillates around your mean. Your average is what...
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New Oct 6, 2025
React, HTMX, and TanStack/Start
More and more UI frameworks are ditching JSON as the transfer protocol and going back to server-rendered markup injected into your...
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New Oct 4, 2025
The grind won't get you there
Don't grind on something the company doesn't value. Hard work is not rewarded. **_Outcomes_** are...
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New Sep 30, 2025
Most history is fake myth building
Regimes come and go but the people stay. Observations from living through a socialism->capitalism...