Drew DeVault draws a provocative parallel between Test-Driven Development cults and GenAI adoption, arguing both exploit developers' psychological need to feel competent while potentially undermining actual code quality.
While Staff Engineer was first and foremost an attempt to pull the industry towards my perspective on staff-plus engineering roles, writing it also changed my opinions in a number of ways. Foremost, i
Remotion is having a bit of a moment at the moment, and I decided to play around with the Claude Code integration. Here are a couple videos I was able to make in <10 minutes summarizring data on my bl
Despite my best efforts, I have been wrong a lot over the years. I’ve been wrong about technology patterns (in 2014, I thought microservices would take over the world), I’ve been wrong about managemen
I did a lot of hiring at Uber, some days I would be doing back-to-back 30 minute phone screens for several hours in a row. That said, while Uber taught me how to hire at scale, it was Stripe that taug
When we launched Digg v4, the old site turned off, but the new site didn’t turn on. There was a lot of pressure to get things working, but no one knew what to do about it. It took almost a month to ge
One of the reasons I write is to help me organize my own mind. I have a compulsive need to figure things out and I’ll lay awake at night shuffling sentences around in my head until it hangs together.
Considering Strictly Monotonic Time Jan 23, 2026 Monotonic time is a frequently used, load bearing abstraction. Monotonicity is often enforced using the following code: fn now(clock: *Clock) Instant
My colleagues here at Thoughtworks have announced AI/works™, a platform for our work using AI-enabled software development. The platform is in its early days, and is currently intended to support Thou
LLMs help developers explore the "what/how" loop of software abstraction more fluidly, complementing TDD in managing cognitive load and building adaptable systems.
Rust's async combinators enable elegant, functional concurrent programming while maintaining safety and declarative code style.
mGBA requires a GBA BIOS file to connect to Dolphin emulator via link cable emulation, which isn't documented clearly.