Development Practices • Apr 24, 2026 Help! I Inherited a Frankenstein Codebase (And I’m All Out of Coffee) A codebase could end up in a Frankenstein state for many reasons, and improving a poorly-built codebase is a marathon, not a sprint.
Artificial Intelligence • Apr 23, 2026 Using AI to Launch a Product: Shipping It, Sharing It, and What Happened Next If there is one thing I hope my posts reinforce, it is this: AI does not replace product thinking. It amplifies it.
Artificial Intelligence • Apr 22, 2026 Using AI to Launch a Product: From Wireframes to a Working Prototype (Without Writing Production Code) I took an idea for a game from paper to a working prototype quickly with AI. I couldn't have built this efficiently a few years ago.
Artificial Intelligence • Apr 21, 2026 Using AI to Launch a Product: It Takes More Than a Day I genuinely enjoy AI product development videos. They’re motivating. But each time, I ask myself: is it actually a product… or just a demo?
AI for Developers • Apr 20, 2026 Here’s What I’m Learning from a New Policy on AI Code Review If AI code review can remove the bottleneck in the pull request process, developers can push changes faster than before.
Artificial Intelligence • Apr 19, 2026 The Increasing Value of Curiosity in the Age of AI Curiosity has always been valuable. Right now, in the age of AI, it's becoming the single most important trait a leader can cultivate.
Delivery Practices • Apr 18, 2026 There’s More to SWOT Than Meets The Eye: 3 Steps to Get From Framework to Strategy SWOT is one of those frameworks that looks and feels intuitive. It’s also what makes it easy to underestimate.
Artificial Intelligence • Apr 17, 2026 Software Engineering Is Not Dead AI was supposed to make software engineers obsolete. I've seen the opposite: the technical people improved dramatically more.
Development Practices • Apr 16, 2026 K3s: A Better Way to Deploy a Docker App to a Linux Server K3s is easy to deploy. It has a great installer, and it's fully compatible with the entire Kubernetes ecosystem of tooling.
DevOps & System Admin. • Apr 15, 2026 A Webserver and a Slack Bot on OpenBSD: Introducing relayd I set up a Slack bot on my OpenBSD server. When I needed to route traffic to it, I needed to use a new tool in the OpenBSD toolbox: relayd.
Product Development • Apr 14, 2026 Shipping Faster Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Learning Faster Shipping quickly can be a powerful way to learn if teams define what they’re trying to learn and make time to reflect on the results.
AI for Developers • Apr 13, 2026 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You AI It With some planning before I prompt, I get better results that scale well. Here's what I ask before I get started.
