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The Kubernetes Aquarium  This is an app. It’s a whole functional unit on...

An Illustrated Guide to Mob Programming  Say this is you, and you’re trying to decide what...

ship-it - a humble script for low-risk deployment  Software teams like shipping software. We like doing it fast,...

Arcade Tweeter  The arcade-tweeter app lets you craft your tweets like you’re...

Best of @dog_rates  The dog_rates2020 app is something I made for two purposes:...

RPG Dice Roller  The RPG Dice Roller app is a simple, no-frills dice...

How GMing made me better at running meetings  You might expect [[tabletop RPGs tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)]] to...

Systems Thinking & Software Practices  A system is not just a collection of things.1 In...

Facilitating a Design Studio  

Consulting as a Co-Creation Conversation  Consulting is a paradox of power dynamics.1 By defining a...

Fictive Futures - co-incidence festival 2021  what would it mean to desire a future that we...

Pair Programming  Pair programming (and its cousin, [[mob programming]]) is a practice...

Tabletop RPGs  I have many thoughts about tabletop RPGs; this note is...

Test Doubles  Five types of test doubleThere are five types of test...

Test-Driven Development  why I love TDD: testing after the fact is exhausting...

Why Avoid Code Comments  A controversial opinion! Let’s break down some reasons.

Why Avoid Default Exports  Default Export example

Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon  Today I learned (or, re-learned) about the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon1, which...

Cognitive Disfluency  A few puzzle pieces coming together…

Extreme Programming  XP Values

Full-Stack Engineer  I am a full-stack engineer because I believe in the...

Another Perspective on Interrupting Developers at Work  A comic about collaboration

Learn by Doing  I learn best by doing. I like to get hands-on...

Learn to Learn  Simply put, this is knowing when to learn something and...

New Jersey Office of Innovation  I joined the @NJGov Office of Innovation in February 2021....

Olin College of Engineering  I graduated Olin College of Engineering in 2017 with a...

On Estimating Stories  A few snippets of opinions on story estimation:

VMWare Pivotal Labs  I worked at Pivotal Labs (bought by VMware in 2020,...

Esoteric Software Licenses (and anti-licenses)  I have a burgeoning fascination with esoteric software licensing. Why?...

Speaking & Writing  A curation of external (ie, not on this site) speaking...

Works I Reference Regularly  This is a non-complete unordered list of works that I...

Agile  To remind myself of what it really means, I often...

Building a custom motorcycle rack for the Kymco Spade  So, I have this motorcycle. A Kymco Spade 150.

Language shapes how we think  “Words and the meaning of words predispose the child to...

Dynamic Ordering - Learning from Libraries & Highways  Dewey Decimal System

Tools and environment shape behavior  Coming soon…

Digital Garden  What is a digital garden?

Safety Tools for RPGs  A Safety Tool is a feedback mechanism for [[tabletop RPGs]]...

Leaving Gaps  “Leaving gaps” is a common phrase in [[tabletop RPGs]] like...

Bus Conversion  My partner and I bought a mini skoolie bus and...

Facts about the subway system  The Smith/9th street stop on the G line in Gowanus...

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing  An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

The Black Swan  The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Extrastatecraft - The Power of Infrastructure Space  Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space by Keller Easterling

History of Wolves  History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund

How to do Nothing - Resisting the Attention Economy  How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny...

Joyful Militancy  Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Nick...

The Medium is the Massage  The Medium Is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel  Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory  Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory...

The Ends of the World  The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen

The Shallows - What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains  The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains...

Thinking in Systems  Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows

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