NEW POST OKRs are popular but often set in a top-down cascade. Paulo Caroli describes a path for teams to create their own, in a collaborative process to align with broader strategy. martinfowler.com/articles/tea...

NEW POST @xpmatteo.bsky.social shows why the common metric of AI code acceptance has big hole. LLM can be helpful even if you throw away its code. martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

My new favorite prompt for analyzing legacy code: Please think deeply about how @vaughnvernon.bsky.social would refactor [this code] according to DDD principles It works surprisingly well! (Well not that surprisingly if you consider I'm invoking Vaughn here!)

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I wrote a short article on my early experiences writing software with Cursor AI. It's about AI rules and a little moment of retrospective between me and the AI matteo.vaccari.name/posts/learni...

RANT Inspirational decks that use inspirational pictures instead of words start from the assumption that when the speaker speaks, their words are heard and understood by the audience -- and this assumption is /really/ weak.

One thing I dislike about gradle as a build tool is that it pollutes your top directory with oh-so-many files. Today I created a repo for a simple library, and at the top directory you will see: LICENSE README.md build.gradle gradle gradlew gradlew.bat settings.gradle src

Were you in software and digital products development during 2007-2012? Which - ideas, - (on/off-line) conversations, - conference sessions, - posts/articles/papers and - book published during those years inspired you, your professional life, and contributed to your mastery?

Canon TDD -- I keep reading critiques of processes that aren't TDD, so I summarized the original definition. tidyfirst.substack.com/p/canon-tdd