Does this sound like you? Evolutionary Design/TDD has, for me, been an adaptive response to uncertainty (even anxiety!) I have felt while trying to write software.

I'm looking for a client interested in getting help to simply think more clearly for an experimental 3-month program. What could you do with weekly conversations with a wise, caring partner, whose primary concern was helping you make sense of your world?

How can writing things down in an Inbox be so powerful? blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/bl...

I try not to be quite so blunt about this these days, but I stand by the overall message: you have probably been trying to go too fast. And I get it. No blame, really! If you don't have at least one impatient customer, then you have a hobby and not a business, right? :shrug:

I have a new challenge for 2026 and I have spent approximately 20 minutes on it so far. This resource, I presume, is going to help me. dexonline.ro

Before you react to this story one way or the other, please listen to the podcast I've shared. Even if just in the background. It quite literally the least you can do. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Well, my newest Master Class was a hit. As it is with my live work with programmers, we start with all the technical issues, then pivot hard in the last 30% to the deeper interpersonal problems. codecamp.ro/masterclasse...

"Yes, but we don't live in Qazaqstan, we live in Königswiesen!"

I formally submit my application for the role of CEO of #HTMX @htmx.bsky.social @htmx.org 🤷

The limit of making prompt libraries more precise is a programming language.

A telling of the story of how Carl Sagan tried to encourage young people to learn more about critical thinking. youtu.be/-Pc3IuVNuO0 #codecamp

When we use LLMs to generate code, we get Common Practice amplified and thrown back into our faces. We also entrench Common Practice. So... Which practices are common? Would you like more or less of that? #codecamp

With a code sample of computing the most frequently repeated letter in a string in Java, @venkats.bsky.social shows us an example of code that looks complicated (even ridiculous), but is truly merely unfamiliar to the typical reader. #codecamp

According to @venkats.bsky.social I am so old that the Gen AI takeover will make me into a boutique consultant who will be able to charge higher prices, not lower ones. I appreciate him for the ray of hope. #codecamp

Iată o nouă provocare pentru 2026.

Does nobody here care about the difficulties of navigating a job in software development or do I merely need to attract a new batch of followers? 😉

Active Stakeholder Participation Or Make yourself known to the business 🤔 #codecamp

The Three Amigos, aka Collaboration among customers, programmers, and testers, makes an appearance, but wearing a mustache because nobody paid attention to them the first time around. #codecamp

Fred Brooks has entered the chat. #codecamp

Echoes of _Never Check Email in the Morning_ in @markrichardssa.bsky.social encouraging folks to devote time to caring for their career. #codecamp

Excellent! If @markrichardssa.bsky.social has it right and programmers will be nudged towards architectural responsibilities, it seems to me that the lessons we can learn from Evolutionary Design will be invaluable. That will make it easier to trust the programmers to whom they delegate decisions.

Good news: we already knew what to do. Bad news: we didn't do it. More bad news: we had to rediscover it in order to notice that didn't do it. Good news: we can still do it. (This refers to Microservices in a Single Process, aka Modular Monolith.) #codecamp

Evolutionary Design, and in particular TDD, can help folks learn both how to build Microservices in a Single Process and why that might be wise. And this is merely a synonym for Modular Monolith. #codecamp

Microservices are to SOA As Microtests are to Tests That is, we say that we're doing the first one, but we're really merely doing the second one. #codecamp

I expected @kevlin.bsky.social to say it, and he did. The problem isn't the Modular Monolith so much as the reason to want one. This is another name for what I usually do: build Microservices in a Single Process. #codecamp

OBS Studio + external webcam = video falling behind audio gradually, unpredictably, and increasingly. How to fix: jb.rainsberger.ca/permalink/vi...

ICYMI #5pinbowling fivepinbowling.substack.com/p/simplifyin...

The LabVIEW Experiment interviewed me recently. We had just a good time that the conversation has been split into two parts. Part 1 has just been released. Enjoy! www.thelabviewexperiment.com/episodes/sea...

If you'd like a 96-minute-long meditation on this assertion: www.imdb.com/title/tt0056...

"I am actually a princess," the frog said. "Oh no!" said the prince. "My curse can only be lifted by a prince listening to me." "Of course," said the prince, and bent down with puckered lips. "What are you doing?!" "Kissing you, like you asked!" "No!" The frog hopped away, muttering.

Hello, folks! I'm speaking at the TechLead conference in September 2025. Nothing controversial: merely Overcoming the Fundamental Misunderstanding About Technical Debt. ;) You can register via my badge and watch the stream for FREE! See you on September 18 & 19! gitnation.com/badges/techl...

This commit seems like a sensible one on which to take a long break and do something else, in order to let the back of my mind consider its options. worktree.ca/jbrains.ca/h...

I am trying to Roll Forward when I should have Mikado'd. We all need reminders to take smaller steps from time to time.

Collaboration & Contract Tests are (a kind of) Integration Microtests.

I can’t remember why i made this Ea-nāṣir meme but im glad i did

There is no way to know what's happening. This is the future we created. Brawndo has what plants crave.

You know that literary device that sf writers use with sound bites from "news items" delivered by news media outlets vaguely unfamiliar to the readers? Now. It's happening now.

Just in case anyone is trying to have hope just now, don't. There will be pointless fireworks for 8 minutes, then nothing will change.

prompt: Elon Musk downcast, standing on a street corner beside a sign reading "Will wield chainsaw on stage for food."

I only wish this long international nightmare were over.

You must always love the FooCafe vibe. Food: Yes.

The phrase "reverse discrimination" assumes that your direction is the forward direction. That's the *-ism that you think you're not perpetrating. That's it. You think the default setting should be/is like you. It's OK. You can stop thinking that RIGHT NOW, but the choice remains yours.

Did Elon Musk just discover that the two-party system has downsides?

We know this in the software development industry as "The Implementers Rule: implementers rule!"

Everything I try to read about writing React Native apps using a PureScript Functional Core seems to be dated 2018-2019. I feel like some cataclysm happened around that time and I'm too afraid to ask.

I also accept questions in English. #IngaTidsestimater

I'm trying.

Experiment. #IngaTidsestimater Är vi säkra?

There is a special kind of Esprit de l'escalier when you are partway through your commute back to the hotel, then you think of exactly how you meant to explain that thing to the client. At least it becomes something to write about.