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A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post on how to write a design document.

I wrote this talk for my employer, to follow a talk given the previous week by the product organization about how they intended to change their work to use the new generation of LLMs.

Let’s start by clarifying what I mean by the question.

I recently built a few things to make it easier for my team to distribute the tools they’ve been building to the entire engineering organization.

I read Julia Evans’s blog post on “What’s involved in getting a modern terminal environment” and got very excited because there are lots of great comments in that blog post, and I have a few more of my own, and a little meta-commentary.

Nothing I said in this presentation will be shocking to any readers of this blog, but my audience here was the entire company.

For “you” in this document, read “you and your team”.

This is a systems analysis document rubric I’ve written several variations on in recent years.

Context: @substack 1 deleted his github account, which includes a lot of foundational source code from the early days of node.

KiwiFarms is a harassment website, sort of like a terrorism-only variation on the *chan sites.

The topic of reducing friction exhausts me: Do people still need to be persuaded to help their developers go faster?

Sometimes I think that my next conference talk ought to be nothing more than a live read-through of Tef’s blog post, “Repeat yourself, do more than one thing, and rewrite everything”.

This blog post is harder to write than you might think, because it goes right into a number of people problems and the behavioral patterns of toxic organizations.

What should you do with a pile of legacy code you hate?

The other day on Twitter Kat Marchán said this: my strongest opinion on programming languages is that postfix .await is the single greatest innovation in the past 70+ years of programming language theory and history and you can’t convince me otherwise. —…

A couple of years ago now I read Peter Naur’s “Programming as Theory-Building” (alternative PDF link) and it was a mind-blower.

You know Conway’s Law, of course.

The first problem with blogging is deciding where and how to do it.

I’ve been on the internet since 1987, which places me in the early generation of people being idiots online.