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What I think a new engineer’s first month should be for
September 2026
The challenges of evaluating AI coding tools
September 2026
A team made mentoring part of the path to promotion
September 2026
The 3 p.m. problem: what a three-continent team needs
September 2026
Developer jobs projected to grow 10% through 2035
September 2026
AI raised coding output 180% and releases 30%
September 2026
Writing technical standards people follow
September 2026
Choosing a front-end framework for a ten-year product
August 2026
84% of developers feel faster with AI, 20% measure it
August 2026
What a very large audience taught me about web performance
August 2026
Coding agents sped up the task and weakened understanding
August 2026
Helping offshore teams own their work
August 2026
A platform capability is done when it is used
August 2026
What educational technology taught me about leading teams
August 2026
Senior roles are 69% of software development postings
July 2026
Why I think you should talk to users before a rewrite
July 2026
The roles I think a web team needs now
July 2026
Debugging is mental model building, not tool use
July 2026
Why I plan more when a team is new to a technology
July 2026
The 2026 Stack Overflow survey is open, for humans only
July 2026
The challenges of measuring developer productivity
July 2026
Recognition I think engineers actually value
July 2026
A quarter of US paid workdays are still worked from home
June 2026
A third of managers are considering a return to coding
June 2026
AI writes nearly a third of new US software functions
June 2026
Why I think time zones are a planning problem
June 2026
Third parties were involved in nearly half of breaches
June 2026
Angular 22 picks the modern path for you
June 2026
What I think the single-page app era got right and wrong
June 2026
Most engineering leaders say AI raised velocity by a quarter
May 2026
The boundaries I think keep a large React codebase workable
May 2026
What I think about bringing two engineering teams together
May 2026
Scaling the social system of a software organization
May 2026
What I think reviewers should look for in agent-written code
May 2026
An AGENTS.md file cut agent runtime by a quarter
May 2026
Node.js 26 turns Temporal on by default
May 2026
98% more pull requests, 91% longer reviews, flat delivery
May 2026
Trust predicted remote productivity, training did not
May 2026
What I think a team needs before adopting an AI coding tool
April 2026
The public web accessibility deadline moved a year
April 2026
What teaching kids Pong taught me about onboarding
April 2026
Tech employment fell in March while job postings rose
April 2026
Remote teams underestimate barriers for disabled developers
April 2026
Experts and the public disagree on what AI does to jobs
April 2026
How I think about rewrite, wrap, or retire
April 2026
What I think engineers should understand about compliance
April 2026
Deciding what documentation is worth carrying forward
March 2026
With AI, developers coded more and collaborated far less
March 2026
The challenges of scaling management as a team grows
March 2026
The AI productivity study that found a slowdown is changing
March 2026
In hybrid teams, the Agile ceremonies became the anchors
March 2026
Quick prototypes, and keeping them off the roadmap
March 2026
Growing a leadership team: lessons from a QCon talk
March 2026
What a good engineering interview is trying to learn
February 2026
What I kept from being a scrum master
February 2026
Building ownership in partner and vendor teams
February 2026
What I look for when hiring engineers I meet on video
February 2026
Learning a new library with AI help: scores 17% lower
February 2026
How architecture groups make decisions that stick
January 2026
Google’s 2025 DevOps research report: AI is an amplifier
January 2026
What I believe changes when you start managing managers
January 2026
66% of developers doubt their productivity metrics
January 2026
What I think an estimate is for
January 2026
AI coding is everywhere, but not everyone is convinced
January 2026
Connecting Bangalore to the SDLC: A Dev Manager’s Journal
July 2024
People First: How We Rapidly Built A Machine Learning UI Application
April 2021
Building the Future: Transforming a Fintech UI Component Library
September 2020
DevNexus 2020: A Visit to Atlanta’s Premier Software Development Conference
March 2020
Building Global Dev Teams: A Manager’s Journey Through Kraków
June 2019
