Matt Blodgett

  Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. - Abelson & Sussman, Structure and Inte...

One of the evergreen topics among Agilists is the debate of story points vs. hours . My own take on this debate is largely based on what I ...

I’ve had a gut feeling for a while that the existence of a dedicated QA team actually leads to more bugs, not fewer, by letting developers o...

In my post Be the Automator I discussed the inevitability of automation in the software profession, and the need to embrace this automation...

Nothing makes my spidey sense tingle in a job ad quite like the phrase “unlimited vacation.” It’s one of those transparently ridiculous ...

One way of pursuing a career in software development is to perennially jump from technology to technology, or you may say, tool to tool. The...

The Programmer-Archaeologist churns through this maddening nest of ancient languages and hidden/forgotten tools to repair existing progra...