Muses: inspired thinking for inspired action
Essays on technology, work, and judgment in the IT trade — the longer reads for when the ticket queue can wait a few minutes
The innovation paradox: stupid idea or breakthrough
Bad ideas and breakthrough ideas look identical the day they're proposed — here's how to tell them apart cheaply enough that being wrong doesn't hurt.
Accounting
If a press release about ethical capitalism wrote it...
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Agile
The circle of fix: how to escape the bug-rework loop
A frantic ensemble sings its way around the never-ending bug-fix-outsource-re...
Ai-engineering
Three is the magic number for automation that holds
Three is the magic number: the triangle is the only rigid shape, the most eff...
Automation
Three is the magic number for automation that holds
Three is the magic number: the triangle is the only rigid shape, the most eff...
Bash
Three is the magic number for automation that holds
Three is the magic number: the triangle is the only rigid shape, the most eff...
work & play & dev &: job control for the sleep-deprived
You think your life runs `work && play && dev`. You actually try to run `work...
All Muses: inspired thinking for inspired action Articles
Best practice is the interest of the stronger
The rules you buy technology by were mostly written by the people selling it....
Your best programmer thinks they're just good at Excel
The most fluent programmer in your company may have never opened a terminal. ...
Three is the magic number for automation that holds
Three is the magic number: the triangle is the only rigid shape, the most eff...
work & play & dev &: job control for the sleep-deprived
You think your life runs `work && play && dev`. You actually try to run `work...
The circle of fix: how to escape the bug-rework loop
A frantic ensemble sings its way around the never-ending bug-fix-outsource-re...