David Edgar's website

Sunday, 20 October 2024

🔖 Software Possession for Personal Use

🔖 Local First Software

An examination of the idea of owning and controlling the data produced and used by the software that you use, rather than giving it to cloud services.

Friday, 21 June 2024

🔖 Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

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

Tuesday, 05 September 2023

🔖 Measuring Developer Productivity Part 2

Part 2 of a response to the McKinsey developer productivity idea

🔖 Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey Part 1

I predict this article being very useful to me by the end of the year in order to fend off the McKinsey thing being applied to me

Sunday, 06 August 2023

🔖 Network Protocols

Some networking concepts

🔖 Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3

A self-history on building S3 from a person who was there. The only thing I knew going into this was knowing the used Scrum as a project management tool. Not sure if it was the same person, but someone joined a Twitter Space run by Bryan Cantrill and defended the methodology on that basis. Which is not really here nor there.

🔖 The Cloud Is a Prison

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, 04 July 2022

🔖 A Roadmap to Zero Trust Architecture

Sunday, 13 June 2021

🔖 The Architecture of Open Source Applications

Thursday, 15 April 2021

🔖 Foundations of Databases