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New book: 🌟 Guiding Star OKRs 🌟 https://pragprog.com/titles/snokrs/guiding-star-okrs/
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September 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's alive! Komplexitetspodden (The Complexity Podcast) is now available at Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

...and at Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/40Cpa7M...

First episode: Enkla regler (Simple Rules). A new episode, featuring a unique theme, will be published every Thursday.
Komplexitetspodden
Technology Podcast · Updated Weekly · En podcast där tankar om komplexitet får fokus en stund.
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August 16, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Hindsight makes every failure seem obvious. A phantom traffic jam appears from nowhere, only to vanish moments later. Unwritten rules at the office dictate collaboration far more than any employee handbook. Phenomena of complexity that can't be understood by simply looking at their individual parts.
July 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am i to disagree?
Everybody’s looking for something...
In light of the regular expression adage, seeing Regular Expressions Machinery makes me think _when confronted with a lack of understanding of regular expression some people think “I know, I'll learn about the internals.” Now they have nightmares._ pragprog.com/titles/d-snr...
Regular Expressions Machinery
An illustrated guide to understanding and effectively using regular expressions.
pragprog.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Book review: Guiding Star OKRs

Setting, tracking, and reporting OKRs is terrible. But what if it wasn't? In Guiding Star OKRs: A New Approach to Setting and Achieving Goals, Staffan Nöteberg lays out a framework that focuses on heading in the right direction instead of trying to meet exact…
Book review: Guiding Star OKRs
Setting, tracking, and reporting OKRs is terrible. But what if it wasn't? In Guiding Star OKRs: A New Approach to Setting and Achieving Goals, Staffan Nöteberg lays out a framework that focuses on heading in the right direction instead of trying to meet exact targets. Unlike the OKRs you may have experienced, Guiding Star OKRs are focused on getting the right results, not the pre-determined results.
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April 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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April 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I've got 52 years of experience so far.
Started FORTRAN programming at age 8 in 1973.
8080 machine language programming in 1977.
6502 and BASIC programming in 1978.
8086 and C programming in 1986.
VAX/Sun/BSD/SysV in 1988.
Became professional (VAX/VMS dev) in 1990.
Modern C++ in 2017 :)
April 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Celebrating Guiding Star OKRs by Staffan Nöteberg, now in print!

🔗 Read more: medium.com/pragmatic...

📘 ebook: https://pragprog.com/titles/snokrs/guiding-star-okrs/

#teams #leadership #goals #okr #pragprog #books
April 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Guiding Star OKRs
by bestselling author Staffan Nöteberg
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With knowledge distilled from diverse industries, this new approach teaches you to create a compelling “Guiding Star” vision that combines purpose, unified direction, and the freedom to adapt when needed.
March 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Sometimes, we find outstanding self-published titles we 'd truly feel proud to distribute. It's wonderful when our audience agrees.

Right now, 3 of those distribution titles are on our bestsellers list!
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February 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Bestsellers for the past week: http://pragprog.com/best_sellers/

Top 3:
#1 Regular Expressions Machinery
#2 Ash Framework
#3 Real World Event Sourcing

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February 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
“One standout feature of the book is the focus on applying TDD to regex. Writing correct and maintainable regexes can be challenging, especially in production code. By combining regex with TDD, you can write patterns that work flawlessly and stand the test of time.”

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Regular Expressions Machinery: The Illustrated Guide
by Staffan Nöteberg
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January 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I'm about to release two new books, almost like giving birth to twins. And while they're arriving at nearly the same time, they're more like fraternal twins than identical ones. They have different target audiences and were researched in different ways.
January 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This book just got a fresh look and a new title—in preparation for a wider distribution. It's a labor of love, and differs from the usual regex resource. Why?

Unfortunately, many software developers find regexes to be hard to write and decipher.

[1/n]
November 26, 2024 at 9:41 AM
“What happens next?” differs from “What will I do now?” This fine print distinction from Seth Godin's new book “This is Strategy” highlights key differences like tense, protagonist, and result.

[1/4]
November 20, 2024 at 8:16 PM
If you've ever experienced OKRs that feel like "management by objectives" or "management by numbers" then this book might be for you! It describes a completely different approach.

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November 19, 2024 at 6:20 AM
Typing faster is never the bottleneck when I *develop* software. Generative AI certainly has many good applications for a professional developer. Generating code may not be one of them.
"What I do now is type English sentences in increasingly desperate attempts to get ChatGPT to output what I want (or provide snippets to Copilot to get the right autocompletion), which -- as they are pretty much black boxes -- is frustrating and non-linear: it either "just works," or it doesn't. "
November 17, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Second episode about Guiding Star OKRs:
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#14 Guiding Star OKRs with Staffan Nöteberg Part Two - Page to Practice
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November 15, 2024 at 3:58 PM