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Laziness and Impatience - An Engineer's Journey

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I used to have a relatively derelict blog (the one you're on now) where I would jot down some of my thoughts and ex…
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Did we just swap "compilation time" for "completion time"?

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I've been a software engineer for long enough to have seen our workflows evolve dramatically.Waiting for the Toolch…
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The Tale of Two Teams: How We End Up With Useless Software

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Two equally notorious ways to guarantee failure in any software project:Ship too soonNever shipThis is the story I use …
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The "Zero Incidents" Trap: Why Chasing Perfection Backfires

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I'll confess: for years, I was an adamant believer.
I was convinced that achieving "zero incidents" was ju…
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