#craft

Blameless was meant to make it safe to tell the truth. Somewhere along the way it started to mean nobody did anything, and I'd quite like the first one back.

Reviewers in a group agree more than they should, and I don't think it's anybody's fault. So I've started building review panels out of things that have never been in a room.

Engineering practice: git, code, tests · Chapter 1 of 12 · Craft · new chapter every Sunday...

A word can be true and still lie. The lie rides on what the word implies, not on what it says - and the fix is paying the load, not picking a synonym.

I have had this interesting piece of psychedelic looking vinyl for some time. Today I finally found a...

Twenty-seven packages, four marks each, out of ten. The interesting column wasn't the one I expected, and one row explained the whole programme.

Open the recorder on your phone. Ninety four files. Recording 12. Recording 13. New Recording...

AI tools boost output but risk eroding deep system thinking. Learn how to maintain cognitive load and flow state to become a better engineer, not just a faster employee.

The song was good on the sofa. One voice, one instrument, four minutes, and it made somebody in the...

I ran one job past three AI providers and had them vote. The voting was the easy part. Deciding what counted as agreement was not.

Practising alone teaches you one bad habit. It teaches you to fill everything. There is no one else...

Everyone practises the intro. The first eight bars get played a hundred times, because that is where...