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Most decisions that you make are not nearly as important as your ability to change them in the future. When designing systems, it’s easy to

Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

sbensu: High Variance Management

There is a math supplement to this post where I build some intuition on the different probability distributions involved. If you are intere

I’m a Taurus. Here’s my horoscope for today:

August 30, 2022 — Public domain products are strictly superior to equivalent non-public domain alternatives by a significant margin on three

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In-Demand Tech Skills Are the LAST Thing To Look for in IT Hires | NetSuite

Surprisingly, the skills that should be most in-demand for tech hires are soft ones.

My housemate the other day asked me something to the effect of “How can Software Engineers call themselves engineers when there’s no rules,

In general, open source maintainers owe you nothing. Despite maintainers often being volunteers, some users feel entitled to maintainers' ti

Two modes of operation leverage entirely different practices

Gone are the days of yore when we named are our servers Etsy, Betsy, and Momo, fed them fish, and cleaned their poop. Well, servers were our

The computers sitting on our desks are incomprehensibly fast. They can perform more operations in one second than a human could in one hundr

An honest review of why Golang may be bad for experienced developers

Without psychological safety, respect, and trust, none of the following is possible. Process exists in service of people; the people come fi

Favouring Tools is Bad Engineering

This post is about bad engineers, and one aspect of them in particular - solution favouritism.

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