Matt Blodgett

Software is about people, not code.

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

A Human Writes This Blog

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I had to turn off comments on this blog several years ago because most of the comments were being left by bots, and it felt like an uphill b...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Who Wrote This Crap?

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I remember many years ago interviewing at a software consultancy where one of the consultants in the meeting was talking about a project the...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Don't Mess With Delivery

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If your team has consistent, reliable delivery of working software to production, you’re crushing . Don’t mess with it. It's astonishing...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

User Advocate vs. Front-End Engineer

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I really enjoy doing UI work: being close to the user's mind, thinking deeply about interaction design, and how small changes can massiv...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Above All Else, Sustainability

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From the principles of the Agile Manifesto : Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Agile as Progressive Enhancement

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When I was coming up as a young web developer. the concept of progressive enhancement was kind of at the hipster vanguard of web developmen...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Legibility

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I recently came across a blog post called  Seeing Like a Software Company by Sean Goedecke on Hacker News . The post hooked me right away b...
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