Interview With ZDSmith - Nov 2025

ZDSmith lives notation as a tool of thought, making shorthands, a requirement gathering language, porting J to Janet and…

Interview With Matklad - Aug 2025

Matklad built a lot of Rust tooling and now works at Tigerbeetle.

Interview With Hillel Wayne - Aug 2025

Hillel Wayne breathes formal methods.

Deliberate Practice for Developers - Mar 2024

Athletes and fighters go to the gym, how do zen software monks work out?

Software Architecture Today - Jan 2024

tl;dr: Our architecture (software) is about the boundaries between, not the things themselves.

Revolt of the Simple - Jan 2024

tl;dr: Recklessly adopting tools because big tech uses them is the biggest problem in tech.

Design Docs - Jul 2023

Oxide

Oxide has very interesting Requests for Discussion which seem just right.

Big Open Source - May 2023

tl;dr: Open source is a moat for big tech. SaaS is the best startups can do right now.

Architecting Observability - May 2023

tl;dr: 10 construction workers stand and watch one man dig a hole, that’s the cloud today!

The Customer is Always Wrong - Jun 2021

How many times have you thought or heard: “What if there were a tool so powerful you could write your specifications in it, it would make them happen?” Well… That’s what a programming languageis! “No, no. I mean in human language, for real people!” Well, that’s COBOL!