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Ship the Ugly Pot
Quantity beats quality as a learning strategy: the Art & Fear pottery story, DORA deploy data, and how to tell a kiln from a gate in your org.
The Cognitive Case for Play in Technical Work
What research on creativity, flow states, and psychological safety says about the conditions that make your best iterative work possible - and how to build them.
What I Learned When I Could Finally Prove My Work Mattered
For most of my last job I couldn't say whether my work mattered. What I learned getting the data that finally answered it - and what it did to my influence.
Running DevRel in 2026 Means Owning Three Discovery Surfaces
Running DevRel in 2026: developers find you through people, search, and LLMs. What breaks on each surface, how I measure it, and my first 90 days.
Reversing SEO Traffic Decline From AI Overviews: A Weekly Audit (2026)
How I reversed an SEO traffic decline caused partly by AI Overviews: two failure modes, a weekly Claude Code audit, and real numbers from four weeks.
The Art of Computer Science
First, thank you so much for coming to my keynote, The Art of Computer Science. Here you will find all the resources discussed during the talk. About Do you feel like you have struggled to find your...
How to Pass A Coding Interview
The question I most frequently get from developers is how to pass a coding interview. What follows is what I think will be sufficient for a person to be well prepared.
The Tech Talks That Have Had The Biggest Impact On My Career
It’s not that often that I go to a conference or watch a talk on YouTube that truly changes the way I think about programming or software development. Even though I’m someone who does frontend...
An Engineers Guide to Knowing if You Are Done With a Project
Have you ever started a project and thought to yourself, “When can I call this done?” Then this listicle is for you! This guide is intended to be a general list of things your personal or...
So, You Want To Learn How To Code? Here’s What You Need To Know.
So, you want to learn how to code? Here’s What You Need To Know to get started. This is a list of my favorite programming books, talks, podcasts, newsletters, websites, and general tips for...
How To Find a Technical Co-founder
Okay, so you have an idea for a new company, and you just know that Facebook for cats is the next billion-dollar idea. The only issue is that you have no idea how to code. You heard from your aunt...
10 Things I learned at Startup Weekend
What Is Startup Weekend? Are you interested in starting your own business someday? Do you have an idea for a business? Want to meet some smart people? Startup Weekend is for you! Startup...