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21 Aug 2026

When a vendor becomes your process — note 256

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19 Aug 2026

Designing for fewer retries, not prettier dashboards: a field note

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11 Aug 2026

Sustainability reviews in architecture forums under real load

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10 Aug 2026

Evaluating AI assistance without vanity metrics: what I watch for

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04 Aug 2026

Efficiency as reliability practice without the theater

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28 Jul 2026

What Asim Hussain’s green software work asks of us: what I watch for

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19 Jul 2026

When a vendor becomes your process: a field note

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03 Jul 2026

Exit strategies for bought AI tooling — note 236

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17 Jun 2026

Build the harness, buy the commodity: a field note

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04 Jun 2026

Evaluating AI assistance without vanity metrics

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02 Jun 2026

Integration debt after the purchase under real load

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02 May 2026

The new cost of custom: maintenance, not typing in practice

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30 Apr 2026

AI literacy as a coaching problem: what I watch for

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29 Mar 2026

Exit strategies for bought AI tooling: what I watch for

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26 Mar 2026

Sustainability reviews in architecture forums in practice

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19 Mar 2026

Integration debt after the purchase

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13 Mar 2026

Measuring compute waste in product teams

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10 Mar 2026

Efficiency as reliability practice — note 198

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09 Mar 2026

Exit strategies for bought AI tooling — note 197

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28 Feb 2026

Carbon-aware scheduling without the slogans in practice

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21 Feb 2026

Build less, own more of the outcome in practice

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10 Feb 2026

Right-sizing infrastructure as leadership work (2026)

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09 Feb 2026

AI literacy as a coaching problem

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02 Feb 2026

Buy vs build when AI compresses build time in practice

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14 Jan 2026

Carbon-aware scheduling without the slogans (2024)

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27 Dec 2025

When a vendor becomes your process — note 172

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21 Dec 2025

The energy cost of flaky CI when the calendar is full

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09 Dec 2025

Shipping with models without losing craft: a field note

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03 Dec 2025

Prompting is not process — harnesses are

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25 Nov 2025

AI in the workflow, not on the slide deck

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23 Nov 2025

Designing for fewer retries, not prettier dashboards under real load

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16 Nov 2025

Exit strategies for bought AI tooling for engineering leaders

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10 Nov 2025

Keeping humans accountable when models draft code: what I watch for

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09 Nov 2025

Sustainability reviews in architecture forums — note 155

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05 Nov 2025

Shipping with models without losing craft

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01 Nov 2025

When a vendor becomes your process when the calendar is full

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22 Oct 2025

Build less, own more of the outcome under real load

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11 Oct 2025

Build the harness, buy the commodity — note 146

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05 Oct 2025

AI changes tempo; leadership still owns outcomes

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19 Sep 2025

Teaching teams to distrust fluent wrongness

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18 Sep 2025

Keeping humans accountable when models draft code

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28 Aug 2025

Efficiency as reliability practice: a field note

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21 Aug 2025

What Asim Hussain’s green software work asks of us — note 129

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16 Aug 2025

Efficiency as reliability practice when the calendar is full

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10 Aug 2025

The new cost of custom: maintenance, not typing

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28 Jul 2025

Exit strategies for bought AI tooling — working notes

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16 Jul 2025

Build less, own more of the outcome when the calendar is full

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07 Jul 2025

Build the harness, buy the commodity — note 114

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06 Jul 2025

Designing for fewer retries, not prettier dashboards in practice

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01 Jul 2025

Internal open source across product teams under real load

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25 Jun 2025

Contributing without cosplay when the calendar is full

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24 Jun 2025

Contributing without cosplay (2026)

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21 Jun 2025

Designing for fewer retries, not prettier dashboards (2025)

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20 Jun 2025

The energy cost of flaky CI

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15 Jun 2025

Architecture decisions you can reverse (2026)

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14 Jun 2025

Open source as mentorship at scale

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13 Jun 2025

Architecture decisions you can reverse

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07 Jun 2025

Open source governance for small teams (2026)

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27 May 2025

Maintainer burden and team capacity: what I watch for

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25 May 2025

Carbon-aware scheduling without the slogans for engineering leaders

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19 May 2025

Platforms you buy still need owners: a field note

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14 May 2025

Upstream first as a collaboration habit

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11 May 2025

Carbon-aware scheduling without the slogans: what I watch for

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07 May 2025

When a vendor becomes your process: what I watch for

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03 May 2025

Documentation that earns its keep — note 88

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28 Apr 2025

Code review as teaching, not gatekeeping — note 86

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26 Apr 2025

Testing strategy when speed matters (2024)

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25 Apr 2025

API design for humans who inherit it: a field note

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12 Apr 2025

Sustainability reviews in architecture forums without the theater

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11 Apr 2025

Licenses, liability, and leadership judgment — working notes

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03 Apr 2025

Contributing without cosplay

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24 Mar 2025

Incident response that improves the system

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23 Mar 2025

Right-sizing infrastructure as leadership work — note 72

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07 Mar 2025

Platforms you buy still need owners

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04 Mar 2025

Internal open source across product teams

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22 Feb 2025

Small platforms that stay operable

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18 Feb 2025

Technical debt with a repayment schedule

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11 Feb 2025

Migrations that respect team capacity (2025)

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10 Feb 2025

What Asim Hussain’s green software work asks of us

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01 Feb 2025

Designing for fewer retries, not prettier dashboards

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31 Jan 2025

Buy vs build when AI compresses build time without the theater

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22 Jan 2025

Testing strategy when speed matters

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18 Jan 2025

Documentation that earns its keep

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17 Jan 2025

Licenses, liability, and leadership judgment

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16 Jan 2025

Efficiency as reliability practice — working notes

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11 Jan 2025

Build less, own more of the outcome

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07 Jan 2025

Code review as teaching, not gatekeeping under real load

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19 Dec 2024

Buy vs build when AI compresses build time

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18 Dec 2024

When a vendor becomes your process

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16 Dec 2024

Efficiency as reliability practice

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13 Dec 2024

Open source governance for small teams

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24 Nov 2024

Right-sizing infrastructure as leadership work (2024)

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18 Nov 2024

Docs PRs as onboarding practice

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12 Nov 2024

Migrations that respect team capacity

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08 Nov 2024

Build the harness, buy the commodity for engineering leaders

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07 Nov 2024

Carbon-aware scheduling without the slogans

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27 Oct 2024

Maintainer burden and team capacity when the calendar is full

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25 Oct 2024

Borrowing patterns, not brand names

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23 Oct 2024

Maintainer burden and team capacity

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13 Oct 2024

Exit strategies for bought AI tooling when the calendar is full

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11 Oct 2024

When to fork and when to fund

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02 Oct 2024

Right-sizing infrastructure as leadership work

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24 Sep 2024

Exit strategies for bought AI tooling

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16 Sep 2024

API design for humans who inherit it

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12 Sep 2024

Sustainability reviews in architecture forums

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06 Sep 2024

Build the harness, buy the commodity

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01 Sep 2024

Code review as teaching, not gatekeeping

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28 Aug 2024

Make-or-buy with agents in the mix

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