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Log Quad: Domesticate Your Logging Bill

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TL;DR: To safely tune your logging bill, you must first understand your log emissions. Evaluate them through the Log Qu…

Brain-Work, Brain-Toil and Mentoring AI Agents

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I recently wrote about my enlightenment: A mental model for working with AI AgentsTLDR; see it as a collaborator who …

AI Agents: Rich Oases of Knowledge, Barren Deserts of Wisdom

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Everyone keeps writing or sharing about how powerful AI Agents are and how they can fundamentally change the way we do …

Flow: A Pragmatic Approach to Composable Business Logic in C#

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Only recently, after reading the book Effect Oriented Programming, did the true benefits of functional programming …

Laziness and Impatience - An Engineer's Journey

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I used to have a relatively derelict blog (the one you're on now) where I would jot down some of my thoughts and ex…

Did we just swap "compilation time" for "completion time"?

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I've been a software engineer for long enough to have seen our workflows evolve dramatically.Waiting for the Toolch…

Shell Scripts: Safe Short/Long Option Parsing

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I’ve written a ton of Bash scripts over the years - haven't we all?
To be honest, for a long time I handled command…

The Tale of Two Teams: How We End Up With Useless Software

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Two equally notorious ways to guarantee failure in any software project:Ship too soonNever shipThis is the story I use …