Even if we reduce defects to, one per year, if repar takes days, any gain is lost.

Estimates or no estimates? Unless or until you know why you want an estimate, even a "perfect" estimate is wasted.

How I learned to stop caring about the orderly arrangement of my cutlery rack.

Next time you're asked to do a take-home coding assignment for a job application, push back a little.

In this episode, I talk with Peter Morlion about his love for fixing and improving legacy code, what legacy code is, how we can detect it, and what to do about it when we're faced with it.

The "Tech Lead" title is too often (ab)used as a way to "lord it over" people who are "less technically capable".

Most education focuses on how to code, but this is only a small part of becoming a productive software developer.

I hear people ask seemlingy good questions, but they often miss a fundamental part: What problem are you trying to solve?

Three reasons that software development teams don't scale well.

Some things that don't scale well: Databases. Dev teams. Monoliths. Microservices.

We've all heard of economies of scale. Some things have diseconomies of scale.