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.
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
Another idea on measuring engineering productivity via value add.
A followup to two earlier responses to the McKinsey Engineering Productivity article
Part 2 of a response to the McKinsey developer productivity idea
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
Some networking concepts
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.
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.