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2026

Lucas' Laws of Project Managementoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2026
Backpressure is all you needoriginal ↗
23 May 2026
Design docs considered harmfuloriginal ↗
17 Feb 2026

2025

Why your retrospectives don't work and how to fix themoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2025

2023

How to do a successful Hacker News launchoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2023
Why backlogs are harmful, why they never shrink, and what to do insteadoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2023

2022

How to distort Scrum until it no longer worksoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2022
You don't need Scrum. You just need to do Kanban right.original ↗
2 Oct 2022
Why deadlines are pointless and what to do insteadoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2022
Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of themoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2022
How creating a bot farm in an MMORPG got me into programmingoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2022
The Minimum Viable Nothing: ideas to validate products without building themoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2022
How not to build a bike shedoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2022
Why tall hierarchies slow organizations down and how to fix themoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2022
Why your daily stand-ups don't work and how to fix themoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2022
How and why exploiting uncertainty makes products more profitableoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2022
Talking to your customers: a disruptive Agile frameworkoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2022
How finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictableoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2022
Why long-term plans don't work and how to fix themoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2022
How high capacity utilisation hurts a team's performanceoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2022
UX patterns for CLI toolsoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2022

2021

My book-writing routineoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2021
Explaining explaining: a quick guide on explanatory writingoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2021
How to replace estimations and guesses with a Monte Carlo simulationoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2021
Make haste slowly: quantify economicsoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2021

2020

How much specification does a developer need?original ↗
24 Oct 2020
Why does package-lock.json exist, and how does it work?original ↗
17 Oct 2020
The most efficient way to solve problems: not having themoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2020

2019

Don't write software like you write books: the value of delivering early and frequentlyoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2019
Your terminal is not a terminal: An Introduction to Streamsoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2019
How I'm still not using GUIs: A guide to the terminaloriginal ↗
10 Feb 2019

2018

The Absolute Essentials for Bit Manipulation in JavaScriptoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2018
Test-Driven Development is not about testsoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2018
A Gentle Introduction to Lambda Calculus - Part 2: Executionoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2018
In Praise of Plain Textoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2018
A Gentle Introduction to Lambda Calculus - Part 1: Syntaxoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2018
Y: The Most Beautiful Idea in Computer Science explained in JavaScriptoriginal ↗
20 May 2018
Software Engineering in 100 Quotesoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2018
Git Bisect A.K.A. Pure Git Wizardryoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2018

2017

The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of our industryoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2017
Big-O Explained and Why You Will Never Beat a Pigeonoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2017
All About Recursion, PTC, TCO and STC in JavaScriptoriginal ↗
8 May 2017
JavaScript: From Workers to Shared Memoryoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2017
Writing Good Tests for NodeJS APIsoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2017
Open Source Contributions Made Easyoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2017
JavaScript Errors and Stack Traces in Depthoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2017
Understanding Dependency Management in Gooriginal ↗
7 Feb 2017
Quick vIM Tips That Will Save Your Lifeoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2017
Getting Started With Testing in Gooriginal ↗
11 Jan 2017
How to Write Assertions Rightoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2017