I’ve mentioned my approach to technical debt often, but I’ve never actually written it down. Here’s the framework I use. Technical debt is most typically brought up from individual engineers or the engineering department. If not attended to, technical debt can slow down future product development and reduce the developer experience. To me, technical debt is simply technical work we choose to postpone, focusing on something that currently has higher priority. ...
Skateboarder jumping off a building in NYC Short, but with lots of good stuff. The fad of engineering management, drug policy in Spain, and Mr. TIFF are my favourites. Have a lovely weekend! Leadership “Good engineering management” is a fad - you will have to adapt and core skills are reusable Seven Decisions - “Inspired” – right. Engineering Mr TIFF - the story of the TIFF format. As an Amiga fanboy, I like to follow anything related to IFF. ...
Short one today. Listen to the last episode of Science in Action, or check out the archive. For a fun, scary game, have a look at The Scope Creep. One for the product managers. Leadership Become the Consequence - I’ll have to digest this a bit more. The Scope Creep - scary product game ...
I was busy last week, which means more links for today. I really like the podcast with Charity Majors about teams, and it made me rediscover her blog. Some interesting posts about security and LLMs and LLMs in general this week. Leadership Thoughts from LeadDev NYC 2025 - good high-level summary. I should have a look at the videos. Vibe Engineering: A Field Manual for AI Coding in Teams - this got updated. ...
A few interesting articles about AI this week. A good interview with Jane Goodall from 2020, and a weird assembler tutorial game. Also check out the link from Jason at the bottom, I could have copied them all. Leadership The illegible nature of software development talent - boring work is important work, and invisible. ...