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Pitching Hackathon Ideas: Oxymoron The economic rationale for hackathons is that they create value by injecting uncertainty into development.

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Getting Ready to Launch Special practices for special times

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First Principles First When analyzing metrics, apply the simple filters first

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Separate Failed Assertions from Unexpected Exceptions? A seemingly-minor detail of test framework design turns out to depend on context

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Teaching Augmented Coding First Impressions

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Thinkie: Aligning Incentive Pattern: people are working at cross purposes.

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Programming Deflation When Code Gets Cheaper Every Day

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Genie Fight When genies collide...

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Switching Scale A genie-commanding superpower

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Beyond the IDE Patch Boards to IDEs

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Genies Getting Stuck As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly

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Thinkie: Edges Pattern: You aren’t getting enough resources coming in externally to be successful

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Leaving the Nest A newsletter business update

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Genie Fight Pitting genies against each other can result in better outcomes

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New Is The New Black Productive Ignorance--Better & worse ways to not understand

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Cloud Development Environments Tame Complexity By Reducing State This article was first published in 2022.

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Match The Pipes An executive skill

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Kent's Going Home So I’m going to have a place.

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Conclusion: Final section intro from Tidy Together From Tidying Alone to Tidying Together: Where Software Design Takes Us Next

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Theory Introduction to part 3 of Tidy Together

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Management Section Intro: Tidy Together Chapter In Tidy First?

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Tokens: The New Oil What happens when demand exceeds supply? A 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract Perspective

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Preface to Tidy Together How do teams grow software together, despite differing goals, differing perspectives, and different incentives?

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The First Feedback Filter First published 2017.

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Survival, Cash Flow, & Options Tidy Together chapter

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Thinkie: Ask the Genie Pattern: You have a question, any question, especially a question you have tended to abandon because it would be too much work.

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Augmented Coding: Beyond the Vibes Notes from a technically challenging project

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Return of Multi-tasking? Before you start, I’m not advocating for anything here.

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Features & Options Revisited Tidy Together chapter

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Augmented Coding: Coached by the Genie When things improve, that’s great.

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