How You Ship Matters
When you look at how teams ship software, two extremes pop into view....
When you look at how teams ship software, two extremes pop into view....
Here's a familiar pattern I’ve seen play out more than once. Recently, Anthropic reduced Claude’s usage limits after someone started consuming way more resources than expected. That’s understandabl...
Tiny teams move fast because nobody argues over job boundaries. One day you're tweaking CSS, the next you're writing a quick‑and‑dirty data migration. The product needs finishing, so hats get stack...
I wrote This Post is Worthless about how the old web worked, back when links weren’t just SEO fuel but the actual connective tissue of the internet. If I’m going to talk about that, I figured I sho...
I’ve always loved what PageRank promised from the early days of Google: links as votes, authority that anyone could earn if readers found an idea useful enough to link to it. In that early blog era...
There’s a moment, early on in a team’s life, when everything just flows. You don’t need a status meeting because everyone already knows what’s happening. You don’t need a kickoff doc because someon...
In 2013, I wrote a post about how work was changing—a snapshot of what felt like the beginning of a broader shift. Remote work was still a bit of a curiosity for many companies but growing, side pr...
While checking my analytics recently, I noticed that an old post of mine from 2009 was still getting hits. It was a little helper class I had put together to run PowerShell scripts from a C# app. A...
There’s something electric about a tiny team… everyone’s on the same page, decisions happen in a hallway chat, and the work just seems to fly out the door. Whether you’re two engineers knocking out...
I was somewhat intrigued when I learned about NLWeb at Microsoft's Build conference. It's an open-source project from Microsoft that introduces a protocol for making websites more accessible to AI ...
There’s a certain magic that happens in the right team, at the right time. I’ve seen it a few times in my career... whether it was a small crew at a fintech startup building trade settlement system...