Matt Blodgett

Software is about people, not code.

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...
Friday, October 24, 2025

The Financial Architecture of Software

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Conway's Law is foundational to software engineering. It says: Organizations which design systems...are constrained to produce designs ...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast

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If you want to move fast, don’t make speed your goal. Make smoothness your goal. Fast naturally follows smooth. Every software organization ...
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