http://codecube.net/ Software Engineer at Xamarin. Founded ONETUG. Author of 'C# 5 First Look' http://amzn.com/1849686769. en-us https://codecube.net/2025/8/team-series-process/ When you look at how teams ship software, two extremes pop into view.... Joel Martinez 2025-08-11 2025-08-11 https://codecube.net/2025/8/ai-breadline/ 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... Joel Martinez 2025-08-07 2025-08-07 https://codecube.net/2025/8/team-series-specialization/ 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... Joel Martinez 2025-08-04 2025-08-04 https://codecube.net/2025/7/link-map/ 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... Joel Martinez 2025-07-31 2025-07-31 https://codecube.net/2025/7/worthless-post/ 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... Joel Martinez 2025-07-28 2025-07-28 https://codecube.net/2025/7/team-series-death-by-status/ 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... Joel Martinez 2025-07-24 2025-07-24 https://codecube.net/2025/7/how-work-kept-changing/ 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... Joel Martinez 2025-07-21 2025-07-21 https://codecube.net/2025/7/powershell-from-csharp-updated/ 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... Joel Martinez 2025-07-16 2025-07-16 https://codecube.net/2025/7/team-series-size/ 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... Joel Martinez 2025-07-14 2025-07-14 https://codecube.net/2025/7/nlweb/ 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 ... Joel Martinez 2025-07-10 2025-07-10 https://codecube.net/2025/7/team-series/ 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... Joel Martinez 2025-07-07 2025-07-07 https://codecube.net/2025/6/ai-race/ A quick thought as I scan the AI landscape: the early gold-rush chaos has started to settle into predictable lanes. Most products and services now fall into clear categories, and a couple of names ... Joel Martinez 2025-06-26 2025-06-26 https://codecube.net/2025/6/starving-artists/ It's an unfortunate truth that the more connected to someone's passion a job seems to be (artist, filmmaking, game development, musician, etc), the less financially rewarding and stable the career ... Joel Martinez 2025-06-24 2025-06-24 https://codecube.net/2025/6/ai-deviant-behavior/ The other day my smart speaker piped up ... thinking I had said the trigger word when I'd done nothing of the sort. Reflexively I snapped, "shut up, Alexa.". In that moment I was chattin... Joel Martinez 2025-06-16 2025-06-16 https://codecube.net/2025/6/domestic-manufacturing/ This is probably one of the most important videos Smarter Every Day has posted. He doesn't shy away from talking about a lot of the complexities of a global economy ... and also about the catalyst ... Joel Martinez 2025-06-09 2025-06-09