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2026

Even less Human in the Looporiginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
Parallelizability in Agentic Developmentoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2026
Return of the Specoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2026
Agentic Bug Fixing: /undefectoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2026
Agentic Refactoring: /defragoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2026
Context Management: Why your AI Keeps Forgetting What You Saidoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2026
Agentically Ambitiousoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2026
Vibe Reviewingoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2026

2024

The Reliable Orgoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2024

2022

Breaking It Down, Part IVoriginal ↗
23 May 2022
Breaking It Down, Part IIIoriginal ↗
19 May 2022
Breaking It Down, Part IIoriginal ↗
9 May 2022
Breaking It Down, Part Ioriginal ↗
30 Apr 2022
Hey that seems longer than 2 weeksoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2022
Sometimes TDDoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2022

2020

Block-Testingoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2020
The Downward Spiral of Test-Later Automated Testingoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2020

2019

The Trap of Solution-First Thinkingoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2019

2018

A Javascript to Typescript Conversion Case Studyoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2018
Dynamic-Typing for Static-Typistsoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2018
Effective Technical Improvementoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2018
Cross-functionality is a Secret Weapon for Product Development Teamsoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2018
No Heroes in Tech Debtoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2018
The Mathematics Behind Experienceoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2018
Zero Defect Policyoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2018

2017

Enterprise Iffing 3.0 for 10x Rockstar Programmersoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2017
Working Without Estimatesoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2017
Why does Bad Waterfall Happen to Good People?original ↗
20 Jul 2017
So You Want to be a More Senior Engineer?original ↗
4 Jun 2017
The All-or-Nothing Principleoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2017
So You Want to be a Manager?original ↗
6 Mar 2017
The Quality Feedback Looporiginal ↗
15 Jan 2017

2016

The Atomic Team Patternoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2016

2015

We're in the Stone Age of Software Engineering Managementoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2015
Reclaiming Value from Bugs and Outages: Thoughts on Post-Mortemsoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2015
Continuous Testingoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2015

2014

I Don't Miss The Sprintoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2014
Production-Quality Node.js Web Apps : Part III, Preventing Defectsoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2014
Production-Quality Node.js Web Apps : Part II, Detecting Defectsoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2014
Production-Quality Node.js Web Apps : Part I, The Basicsoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2014
In Defence Of The Officeoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2014

2013

You probably don’t need to version your web API.original ↗
14 Sept 2013
My Favourite New Ilityoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2013
A Requiem for a Teamoriginal ↗
8 May 2013
So I wrote a JSON API Framework and the Framework was the Least Interesting Partoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2013
3 Terrible Anti-patterns for Error-Handling in 'REST' APIs:original ↗
22 Apr 2013
The Node.js Community is Quietly Changing the Face of Open Sourceoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2013
Release-ophobiaoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2013

2012

Your Team Probably Doesn't have the Same DVCS Requirements as Linusoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2012

2011

Agile: The Good Partsoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2011

2010

Quality is the Constraintoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2010

2009

The Lost Art of Prototypingoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2009
The Future-Proofing Traporiginal ↗
21 Dec 2009
Code Sloweroriginal ↗
14 Dec 2009