Matt Blodgett
Software is about people, not code.
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Lunch & Learns
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A lot of companies have a regular practice of "Lunch & Learns"—a series where engineers within the company give a presentation...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
The Yin and Yang of Technical Personalities
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Categorize this post as "advice to my younger self." As a developer early in my career I would get very annoyed when coworkers and...
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...
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