Signal Over Noise

Introduction With the release of Yadda 3, I’ve been revisiting not just the library itself, but how I think it should be used.

There is a line from Jeff Bezos that I keep coming back to: good intentions don’t work, good mechanisms do.

I’ve just published Yadda 3.0.0 to npm.

One of the outstanding questions from my previous post was whether code quality mattered to AI.

TL;DR This post explores why experiences with Generative AI assisted software development vary so dramatically.

After publishing my recent article defending coding tests, I read a post by James Mahy, a genuinely kind, and exceptionally talented developer whom I ironically had the good fortune to interview some years ago.

Hiring software engineers is one of the most challenging and critical responsibilities for any team.

Shared reference data can be a tricky aspect of software development, especially in distributed or microservice-based architectures.

In his book Drive, Dan Pink highlights autonomy as one of the critical motivators for high-performing teams.

Targets can be a double-edged sword.