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The Only Skill That Matters Now
There's this restaurant in Tokyo that doesn't have a kitchen.
Sep 14 • 
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The Tmux Menagerie
On Sessions, Dreams, and the Art of Parallel Agentic Programming
Sep 7 • 
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August 2025

The Cause of, and the Solution to, All Your Team's Problems
So there's this developer.
Aug 28 • 
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Safe Is What We Call Things Later
Some Software Engineering Folklore
Aug 24 • 
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The System Inside the System
Announcing two new Ruby gems: vsm and airb
Aug 17 • 
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Entering Technical Debt's ZIRP Era
The manifesto for slop driven development
Aug 8 • 
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The Parallel Lives of an AI Engineer
or: The Octopus Developer's Guide to Parallel Existence
Aug 2 • 
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July 2025

Refactoring in the Age of Unlimited Code Generation
Architectural Decisions at the Speed of Anxiety
Jul 26 • 
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Nobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet
The future of software development might just be jazz. Everyone improvising. Nobody following the sheet music.
Jul 19 • 
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The Great Flood of Adequate Software
Somewhere someone is still evaluating WinRAR
Jul 12 • 
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June 2025

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls
Jun 28 • 
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The Moldy Cucumber Chronicles
or how I learned to stop worrying and love fuzzy vegetables
Jun 22 • 
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