Development Practices • Jun 08, 2026 The Value of In-Person Backlog Management Tools Most junior devs have never done software design without virtual backlog management. Let's talk about in-person backlog management tools.
The Software Life • Jun 07, 2026 My Encyclopedia is Human What's a human encyclopedia? Let's talk about learning through conversations with others who have knowledge I want to know.
Effective communication • Jun 06, 2026 How to Ask Better Questions All questions aren't equal. Understanding when, where, what, and to whom to direct questions is an important skill to develop.
Artificial Intelligence • Jun 05, 2026 From AI Hype to AI Discipline at Merge 2026 At Merge 2026, the tone felt different than in past years. AI wasn’t a future possibility but a reality of the way we work now.
TypeScript • Jun 04, 2026 CQRS and Event Sourcing in TypeScript: A Production Walkthrough Most CQRS explainers reach for a bank account aggregate. This post uses an actual production system example.
Extracurricular Activities • Jun 03, 2026 Your Smart Home Shouldn’t Need Its Manufacturer to Stay Alive Using smart home devices feels like living in the future. But what if the device only works because a company’s cloud service still exists?
Development Practices • Jun 02, 2026 How to Auto-Sort Your Angular Imports Learn how to set up automatic import sorting in your Angular project using the simple-import-sort ESLint plugin — no more manual sorting.
The Software Life • Jun 01, 2026 When Code Becomes Cheap, What’s Left? The typing got cheap. The judgment didn't. Knowing what good looks like and catching what the agent gets wrong is the developer's work now.
AI for Developers • May 31, 2026 Hard-Won Lessons From a Year of Using AI We are producing more with AI. What we’re producing less of, apparently, is honest reflection on what that actually means.
Effective communication • May 30, 2026 Liked Best/Next Time: A Lightweight Feedback Framework for Onboarding The Liked Best/Next Time framework is a tool learned at a ZingTrain seminar. I've found it's similar to a team retrospective conversation.
Artificial Intelligence • May 29, 2026 Unsure How to Start Building with AI? Build Something You Dislike Here's the on-ramp to building with AI that I've found that actually works: build something you really don't like.
Development Practices • May 28, 2026 I Almost Built Another Internal Web App If you've got an internal web app idea, don’t ask, "Should I build it?" Instead, ask, "Am I reaching for the right tool for the job?"
