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Should you join an AI startup right now?

Leadership lessons from growing 3x in 1 year

Pair programming

Yes it's like spinning plates

HTMX – Server Components without React

Quick tips for distributed event-based systems

Quick update on Scaling Fast, my next book

These 3 alerts catch the most issues

What makes a senior engineer

A few more thoughts on mentoring

Cursor background agents in Slack changed my workflow

My mentoring philosophy

TechLeadConf 2025 in September

It's like surfing

Why utils are bad, an example

Why AI won't replace you

3 sticky insights from 3 eng management books

Software architecture IS Conway's Law

You're a business

Common abstraction traps

DRY – a common source of bad abstractions

Why websites and webapps are different

Stateless decision making

Your interview is a sales call

How do you find time for cleanup work

Say no to abstract code

re: The Industrialization of IT

What to work on next?

Always deploy at peak traffic

10 years in America

The difference between a product and a project

Sprint vs Shape Up vs Kanban

Why sprints

What I mean by "tests can be slop"

AI writes good tests, actually

Principles of high output engineering teams

Talk to more users sooner

What I learned from Inspired

Depth takes time

Code yourself out of the job

I was wrong about databases

*Why* the relational data model is so good

A pattern for composable UI in Flask

How *do* you break down a large project? INVEST

How do you prioritize?

Server-side React that renders as png, pdf, or interactive webapp

Build the abstraction first

What I learned from Accelerate

Why you need a task queue

Coaching AI to write your code

The score takes care of itself

Looking for beta readers