David Edgar's website

Wednesday, 08 May 2024

🔖 A Useful Productivity Measure?

Another idea on measuring engineering productivity via value add.

🔖 Productivity Measurement as a Tradeoff

A followup to two earlier responses to the McKinsey Engineering Productivity article

Thursday, 25 April 2024

🔖 The Cloud Under The Sea

Another look at the intercontinental cable laying industry, 28 years after Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth Motherboard

🔖 Mother Earth Motherboard

Neal Stephenson's epic article from 1996 on the trans-continental cable laying industry.

Friday, 02 February 2024

🔖 Balancing Engineering Cultures: Debate Everything vs. Just Tell Me What To Build

Sunday, 06 August 2023

🔖 Network Protocols

Some networking concepts

Friday, 04 August 2023

🔖 Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software

Saturday, 22 July 2023

🔖 Tech debt metaphor maximalism

I had reason to try and explain this metaphor to someone this week, trying to reason with them that some debt is worth taking because delivering speedily is worth it. I couldn't remember this link though. Well, now I will.

Monday, 02 May 2022

🔖 What Is Technical Debt and Why Is It So Painful?

Tuesday, 27 October 2020

🔖 The Official, Authorized List Of Legitimate Reasons For Deciding To Become A Manager

🔖 If Management Isn’t A Promotion, Then Engineering Isn’t A Demotion