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All 59 essays.

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Published from January 2025 to August 2026 .

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17 Aug 2026

Nx Should Make Code Graphs Cacheable

6 min Developer Experience

17 Aug 2026

The CLI Will Outlive Your MCP Server

6 min Developer Experience

16 Aug 2026

A Monorepo Is a Knowledge Graph

9 min Architecture & Systems Thinking

14 Aug 2026

Sweating the Bar and Raising the Details

5 min Engineering Culture

13 Aug 2026

Your Managers Are Not a Distribution List

5 min Engineering Culture

10 Aug 2026

Smaller Delivery Units, Wider Management Spans

5 min Organisational Design

9 Aug 2026

The Code Is No Longer the Scarce Part

7 min Engineering Culture

9 Aug 2026

The Product Development Team Is No Longer the Smallest Unit of Delivery

11 min Organisational Design

8 Aug 2026

Your Manager Has Six Reports Because Management Stopped Thinking in 1933

12 min Organisational Design

19 Dec 2025

The Answer Without the Question

4 min Engineering Culture

12 Dec 2025

What It Takes for a Web App to Feel Premium

4 min Player Experience

11 Dec 2025

The Five Second Contract

4 min Player Experience

30 Nov 2025

The Other Production

2 min Developer Experience

29 Nov 2025

Let the Browser Do the Heavy Lifting

4 min Player Experience

12 Oct 2025

Making a Big Repo Feel Small

2 min Developer Experience

10 Oct 2025

Keys to the Kingdom

3 min Platform Engineering

3 Oct 2025

What Would It Take to Go Live Next Week?

2 min Developer Experience

2 Oct 2025

The Myth of Multiplying Yourself

3 min Player Experience

30 Sep 2025

A general guide to branching in a multi-product monorepo

10 min Developer Experience

30 Sep 2025

Fast, Loose, and Fragile

2 min Engineering Culture

28 Sep 2025

Monkey Dust and the Pale Blue Room

8 min Art & Analogue

18 Sep 2025

The Tide of Review

4 min Developer Experience

11 Sep 2025

Beyond Squads: The Case for Centres of Excellence

6 min Organisational Design

4 Sep 2025

A Modern Approach to Engineering

4 min Organisational Design

28 Aug 2025

Federated Design Systems: Global, Brand, Product

4 min Developer Experience