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Ski Well on the Easy Bits
January 20, 2026
Microservices Were Never About Technology
January 15, 2026
The Death of the Developer
January 14, 2026
The Rise of the Context Jockey
December 27, 2025
The Quiet Resignation of the Backlog
December 1, 2025
We Hired for the Wrong Thing
November 8, 2025
The Codebase That Knew Too Much
October 22, 2025
When Shipping Stopped Feeling Like an Event
October 3, 2025
The Feature Nobody Used
September 14, 2025
Tools Don't Fix Trust
August 27, 2025
The Architect Who Never Wrote Code
August 9, 2025
Why We Stopped Estimating
July 21, 2025
The Standup That Lasted Three Minutes
July 4, 2025
When the Prototype Became the Product
June 18, 2025
The Hyperfocus Trap
June 10, 2025
The Senior Engineer Who Deleted Everything
June 2, 2025
Nobody Reads the Documentation
May 11, 2025
The Bug That Taught Me About Organisations
April 23, 2025
We Replaced the Roadmap with a Feeling
April 7, 2025
The Meeting That Should Have Been a Diff
March 19, 2025
Why Nobody Asked for Permission Anymore
March 1, 2025
The Fastest Team I Ever Worked On Didn't Feel Fast
February 15, 2025
When Writing Code Stopped Being the Hard Part
February 1, 2025
The Rise of the Product Engineer
January 15, 2025
Developers Don't Like Talking to Each Other
January 1, 2025