Peter Hilton
@hilton.org.uk
Product manager @JetBrains, based in 🇳🇱 Rotterdam • speaker, writer, and musician • blogs software product management/design/development at https://hilton.org.uk/blog/
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Track unread books
another domestic inventory management problem
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Track unread books: solving another domestic inventory management problem #books #reading hilton.org.uk/blog/track-b...
How to work with me: a remote work user guide #collaboration hilton.org.uk/blog/work-wi...
How to work with me
a remote work user guide
hilton.org.uk
January 21, 2026 at 8:54 AM
How to work with me: a remote work user guide #collaboration hilton.org.uk/blog/work-wi...
Track unread books: solving another domestic inventory management problem #books #reading hilton.org.uk/blog/track-b...
Track unread books
another domestic inventory management problem
hilton.org.uk
January 13, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Track unread books: solving another domestic inventory management problem #books #reading hilton.org.uk/blog/track-b...
Curate an unread books collection: establishing varied options for what to read next #books #reading hilton.org.uk/blog/curate-...
Curate an unread books collection
establishing varied options for what to read next
hilton.org.uk
January 6, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Curate an unread books collection: establishing varied options for what to read next #books #reading hilton.org.uk/blog/curate-...
🇳🇴 so hear me out, what if Smash were sweet, salty, crunchy…
🌶️and spicy🌶️?!
🌶️and spicy🌶️?!
January 3, 2026 at 11:23 AM
🇳🇴 so hear me out, what if Smash were sweet, salty, crunchy…
🌶️and spicy🌶️?!
🌶️and spicy🌶️?!
Get an unread-books bookcase: the joy of accommodating ‘too many’ books #books #reading hilton.org.uk/blog/unread-...
Get an unread-books bookcase
the joy of accommodating ‘too many’ books
hilton.org.uk
December 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Get an unread-books bookcase: the joy of accommodating ‘too many’ books #books #reading hilton.org.uk/blog/unread-...
Awkward silence inspires the existence of comfortable silence
Guilty pleasures suggests the existence of innocent pleasures and aiding and abetting pleasures
December 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Awkward silence inspires the existence of comfortable silence
Accumulate unread books: why your wish list doesn’t belong in a database #books #reading hilton.org.uk/blog/unread-...
Accumulate unread books
why your wish list doesn’t belong in a database
hilton.org.uk
December 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Accumulate unread books: why your wish list doesn’t belong in a database #books #reading hilton.org.uk/blog/unread-...
I’m in this picture and I like it 😀
In 2025, I delivered 25 talks, including 26 talks at 20 different conferences, in 12 different countries on 3 different continents! Some with amazing cospeakers @piotrprz.bsky.social @hanno.codes and @hilton.org.uk
Since I already have some conferences planned for next year: See you in 2026!
Since I already have some conferences planned for next year: See you in 2026!
December 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I’m in this picture and I like it 😀
What has more potential to improve software quality, in enterprise software development? Better code quality, or better data quality? 🤔
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
What has more potential to improve software quality, in enterprise software development? Better code quality, or better data quality? 🤔
Document trade-offs and compromises – Northern Europe’s crimes against Italian cuisine #documentation #cooking hilton.org.uk/blog/documen...
Document trade-offs and compromises
Northern Europe’s crimes against Italian cuisine
hilton.org.uk
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Document trade-offs and compromises – Northern Europe’s crimes against Italian cuisine #documentation #cooking hilton.org.uk/blog/documen...
Minimum viable inventory management: using Apple Notes to manage supermarket orders #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...
Minimum viable inventory management
using Apple Notes to manage supermarket orders
hilton.org.uk
December 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Minimum viable inventory management: using Apple Notes to manage supermarket orders #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...
Startup idea: solve the problem of accidentally taking a job at a company that uses 20 year-old software tools, instead of modern alternatives. For example, create a job-board that lets you filter on usage of the most-loved and most-hated B2B software products.
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Startup idea: solve the problem of accidentally taking a job at a company that uses 20 year-old software tools, instead of modern alternatives. For example, create a job-board that lets you filter on usage of the most-loved and most-hated B2B software products.
Startup idea: solve the problem of pet-feeding drama, when putting the clocks back suddenly makes meals one hour 'late'. For example, program automatic pet feeders to gradually phase out daylight savings time over the course of several weeks.
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Startup idea: solve the problem of pet-feeding drama, when putting the clocks back suddenly makes meals one hour 'late'. For example, program automatic pet feeders to gradually phase out daylight savings time over the course of several weeks.
🇳🇱 Coolhaven, Rotterdam
December 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🇳🇱 Coolhaven, Rotterdam
Why do product managers so often fail to sustain interesting conversations in online (and sometimes offline) communities, compared to, say, developers? Correct answers only, please 😅 #product
December 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Why do product managers so often fail to sustain interesting conversations in online (and sometimes offline) communities, compared to, say, developers? Correct answers only, please 😅 #product
Domestic inventory management tooling: the ultimate nerd shopping list #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...
Domestic inventory management tooling
the ultimate nerd shopping list
hilton.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Domestic inventory management tooling: the ultimate nerd shopping list #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...
🇳🇱 Linker Rottekade, Rotterdam
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🇳🇱 Linker Rottekade, Rotterdam
Deconstructed inventory management: the basis for a home information management project #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...
Deconstructed inventory management
the basis for a home information management project
hilton.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Deconstructed inventory management: the basis for a home information management project #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...
What’s a software product that got significantly better at its core value proposition, over time, while avoiding complexity and bloat caused by adding ways to serve a larger market?
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What’s a software product that got significantly better at its core value proposition, over time, while avoiding complexity and bloat caused by adding ways to serve a larger market?
Startup idea: solve the problem of Excel thinking everything’s a date. Make a spreadsheet that’s completely normal, except that dates are only ever in an ISO 8601 date format, and anything else is never interpreted as a date.
My best friend 🤝 Excel
Thinks it's a date
Thinks it's a date
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Startup idea: solve the problem of Excel thinking everything’s a date. Make a spreadsheet that’s completely normal, except that dates are only ever in an ISO 8601 date format, and anything else is never interpreted as a date.
Domestic inventory management: optimising supermarket home delivery #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...
Domestic inventory management
optimising supermarket home delivery
hilton.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Domestic inventory management: optimising supermarket home delivery #product hilton.org.uk/blog/invento...
If only there were a software product development discipline that focused on maximising meaningful impact 😅
This is something I have tried to teach management at every job I've had when I wrote code; I sympathize with the need for metrics but this is a hard problem to solve
Now that I'm in management myself I am working hard to find meaningful metrics for my team and the value they deliver.
Now that I'm in management myself I am working hard to find meaningful metrics for my team and the value they deliver.
Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.
Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If only there were a software product development discipline that focused on maximising meaningful impact 😅
Dear readers, I would like you to know that:
1. I wrote a four-part series about my supermarket shopping list
2. I’ll publish the first part on my blog tomorrow
3. I’m not sorry 😅
1. I wrote a four-part series about my supermarket shopping list
2. I’ll publish the first part on my blog tomorrow
3. I’m not sorry 😅
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Dear readers, I would like you to know that:
1. I wrote a four-part series about my supermarket shopping list
2. I’ll publish the first part on my blog tomorrow
3. I’m not sorry 😅
1. I wrote a four-part series about my supermarket shopping list
2. I’ll publish the first part on my blog tomorrow
3. I’m not sorry 😅
Reposted by Peter Hilton
Why do so many testers think they aren’t enough? That they should be ashamed of their role? That they should be called something different in order to get the respect they desire and deserve?
Well, I can venture a guess!
www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/why-do-so-ma...
Well, I can venture a guess!
www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/why-do-so-ma...
Why do so many testers have an identity crisis?
Why do so many testers think they aren’t enough? That they should be ashamed of their role? That they should be called something different in order to get the respect they desire and deserve?
Well, I...
www.maaikebrinkhof.nl
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Why do so many testers think they aren’t enough? That they should be ashamed of their role? That they should be called something different in order to get the respect they desire and deserve?
Well, I can venture a guess!
www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/why-do-so-ma...
Well, I can venture a guess!
www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/why-do-so-ma...
