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Agile engineering != Agile management
Collaborative
Capacity != Velocity
Incremental design
Power on engineers
James Shore: The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition
www.jamesshore.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
matthogg.fyi/a-unified-th...

Be curious not judgmental
Empathy is how we gather new information.
Humility is how we allow information to change our behavior
A Unified Theory Of Ego, Empathy, And Humility At Work
In our daily lives empathy and humility are obvious virtues we aspire to. They keep our egos in check. Less obvious is that they're practical skills in the workplace, too. I think, for developers and ...
matthogg.fyi
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
www.tedinski.com/2018/01/30/t...
more limited = more properties
more power = more meaningless
design duality
properties and power
The one ring problem: abstraction and our quest for power
We often mispercieve something that cannot be done as a problem. But often enough, that's a feature.
www.tedinski.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
83 - Preserving Time for Focused Work / RFD / Oxide
rfd.shared.oxide.computer
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
brooker.co.za/blog/2024/07...

Partition?
Quorum?
Mergeable?
Let's Consign CAP to the Cabinet of Curiosities - Marc's Blog
brooker.co.za
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
brooker.co.za/blog/2025/11...
Correctness
Programmer error?
Local vs global correctness
What Now? Handling Errors in Large Systems - Marc's Blog
brooker.co.za
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
We should all be using dependency cooldowns
blog.yossarian.net
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/b...

People want to not have to write error handling
utcc.utoronto.ca
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Things That Aren't Doing the Thing
strangestloop.io
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
dubroy.com/blog/garbage...

tracing live objects
reference counting dead objects
devlog: garbage collection is useful
dubroy.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Does your data fit in RAM?
yourdatafitsinram.net
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reposted by zaunaidar
Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.

Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
soumith.ch/blog/2024-10...
Parallelize
Checkpoints
Recover from failure
I realize I have absolutely no clue how you train a single model with e.g. 10k h100s.What is where, updated when, with what?
soumith.ch
November 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
drewdevault.com/2021/04/02/G...
simplicity, stability, robustness
internet programming language
community needs
Go is a great programming language
drewdevault.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Measure Twice, Cut Once
xkcd.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
prog21.dadgum.com/145.html
power consumption
docs size and complexity
network traffic
startup time
blog entry length
Things to Optimize Besides Speed and Memory
prog21.dadgum.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM