Archive - Essays and Reflections for Software Engineers and Managers

Effective War Room Management

A Guide to Incident Response

Feb 27

January 2025

on 90 hour work weeks and Identity-Work balance

how does your job align with your identity and how does it affect your working hours?

Jan 13

December 2024

Ghosts of tech-leads past

or how you (reluctantly) stand on the shoulders of giants

Dec 31, 2024

Observability Suite in 2025

what should your observability suite do for you ?

Dec 10, 2024

November 2024

The asymmetry of the unloved parts

why we fall out of love with things and what can we do about it ?

Nov 19, 2024

October 2024

Inefficiencies of software development - 2, and Reading predictions about an AI future

Common process issues that slow you down, and a critical view of latest technology predictions

Oct 21, 2024

September 2024

Inefficiencies of a software engineer, reading stories and writing things down

The inefficiencies of software development

Sep 30, 2024

September 2022

A story about a dev finding a job, the effect of group sizes on productivity, and who cares about Uber's security breach?

no one, really!

Sep 26, 2022

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