Archive - Walls of Text

Should I be coding as a Staff+ engineer?

Is this even the right question?

Jun 28 •

Lessons we should remember from Agile

We have weapons to fight against large org-itis

Jun 1 •

May 2025

Notes from Sir Jony Ive's interview with Patrick Collison

Take care in what we do to advance the species

May 10 •

April 2025

"Middle-out" system design for effective distributed design

Leverage conceptual and logical models to achieve a distributed yet coherent system design.

Apr 19 •

March 2025

Planning for your replacement

The staff+ eng superpower to scaling

Mar 29 •

Book Review: Good Strategy Bad Strategy

The Scientific Method as seen in real life!

Mar 8 •

February 2025

Event storming for getting up a team up to speed

Team velocity improves when we have a shared understanding of the problem.

Feb 16 •

January 2025

How to learn a new domain quickly

Get back into your comfort zone as soon as possible!

Jan 25 •

Should I stay or should I go? Part 2

Tips on choosing your next role, and avoiding being sucked in by seductive job ads.

Jan 4 •

December 2024

Should I stay or should I go? Part 1

A framework for when to look for a new role

Dec 7, 2024 •

November 2024

What software engineers can learn from IPv4 to IPv6 migration

Building a v2 system isn't always worth it.

Nov 16, 2024 •

October 2024

Everyone wants to be a platform

We always want what someone else has

Oct 26, 2024 •

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