Sleeping Potato

The engineering teams I look back on as truly great share less than people assume.

When you want to change something that involves other people, you have choices about how to go about it.

What AI coding costs you | Tom Wojcik What’s the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?

Extremely Lazy and Immensely Curious When I explain that Claude Code has changed my relationship with developing software completely, I’m under-exaggerating... if that’s even a thing.

677: I Accept the Battery Cost — Accidental Tech Podcast — Overcast I am not an abolitionist and I'm not totally against looking into it because I recognize that it's not actually particularly different than all the other forms of technology that have come

The tree swing cartoon is widely known and frequently remixed for good reason.

Code has always been the easy part When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in that time.

When using Claude Code, you'll often want to drop to the shell for quick commands like checking git status, switching branches, or running tests.

I started 2025 with a goal to write and publish essays about software.

Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez> Whatever you believe about what the Right Thing should be, you can't control it by refusing what is happening right now.

Let's get the caveat out of the way first.

The conversation around AI has become increasingly absolutist.

After reading Design Principle: Composable Services someone asked "How do you keep consistency with this approach long-term?"

After publishing Taking a Step Back from Ruby, I heard from a lot of people.

I wrote briefly about this on Mastodon earlier in the month, but I wanted to expand on my thoughts a bit.