Matt Blodgett

A blog post titled  AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read) by Rick Manelius blew up on Hacker News last week. The discussion on HN is amazing, it's l...

I recently watched a couple interviews with Cory Doctorow discussing AI. He explained the concept of the "Reverse Centaur" from...

I've had many jobs over 20+ years in the software industry, and every one of them has been dysfunctional to some degree. Of course, that...

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...

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

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

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

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

In the software engineering profession, there's a concept called "resumeware". It's software that was made with the engine...

I've been a subscriber to the r/ExperiencedDevs subreddit for a few months, and I've noticed a common pattern. Someone will post a ...

Writing unit tests is one of those tasks that software engineers often see as tedious. In fact, I've heard from fellow engineers that un...

Decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. (Or, in this context, remain employed.) - Will Larson, " Care...

I found a site called Progression.fyi that curates a list of "career frameworks," or in other words, the level-progression system...

I've written before on this blog about the different personality traits of software engineers, and how different traits balance each ot...

I feel like every job I've ever had in software there has been some old legacy system hanging around that everyone denigrated and perenn...

There's a Kafkaesque situation that develops in companies that cannot retain senior employees. A team feels a sense of urgency about shi...

The most effective technical leader I ever worked with had a track record for coming onto a project and whipping it into shape. His ideas we...

I wrote in 2017 a post called Don't Trap Your Clients in the Bikeshed . That post was about avoiding the trap of seeking feedback on tri...

I’m constantly shocked that business people don’t make much of an effort to communicate to engineers the impact of their work. It’s par for ...

Every company needs people who can work quickly. Stuff happens. Production goes down. We found a showstopper bug right before a big release....