Matt Blodgett
Software is about people, not code.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Let Unsustainable Things Fail
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I read a post by Max Countryman recently titled Let It Fail ( Hacker News discussion ), where he talks about the importance of failure in ...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Tech's COVID Hangover
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So many layoffs! I can't open Hacker News or LinkedIn without seeing constant stories about the next tech company to lay off hundreds or...
Thursday, January 26, 2023
The AI Can't Destroy Anything Worth Preserving
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The front page of Hacker News has been flooded lately with articles about ChatGPT , a seemingly magical AI tool that can generate realistic...
Friday, December 23, 2022
Prototypes Live Forever
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Code always lives longer than you want it to. So often as developers, we're writing code under the gun. Just get it working. We have a d...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
RIP Fred Brooks
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Fred Brooks passed away this month. I first wrote about him on this blog in April 2007 , right after I had finished reading his seminal boo...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
What Is a Staff Engineer?
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What's next for someone who has been at the Senior Engineer level for several years or more? It used to be that you had to go into peopl...
Friday, September 30, 2022
Remote Hiring and the Paradox of Choice
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Oh, how I love remote work. And oh, boy, I've written a lot about the topic on this blog. We all know the reasons why remote work is am...
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