Different Shelf

I went looking for the cause of a slow test suite and ended up with a fix merged into V8, the JavaScript engine behind Chrome and Node.js.

A shared change once took a quarter to reach every product in a large software estate because each team had to adopt and release it separately.

An internally open repository can still preserve every old boundary.

Part Two of two.

MCP wraps AI-friendly conventions around software that should already have a good API or CLI.

Part One of two.

Andy Grove designed meetings for an older information system.

If a rule governs thousands of people, its owner should not whisper it through the organisation chart.

A short manifesto for making the engineering organisation follow the work.

AI can generate an implementation and may even propose the strategy.

Team Topologies put the stable team at the heart of software delivery.

Rod Liddle, the British columnist and former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, died on 2 August 2026, aged 66.

It read like an explanation.

Performance work rarely arrives as a single insight.

Players have an internal clock.

Players only ever see one world.