Weekend Engineering

Everything must be high-value added work. But.

I used to have very long sessions of focused, uninterrupted “work”.

Apr 5 • Alain Di Chiappari

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March 2026

Convincing Is Not Persuading

Many engineers (me included) I met have a drawer full of proposals that never went anywhere.

Mar 22 • Alain Di Chiappari

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No you can't build it in a day

The Mythical Man-Month: Programming Systems Product

Mar 7 • Alain Di Chiappari

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February 2026

Your fingers are snitching on you

Keystroke dynamics: the oldest biometric I had never heard of

Feb 21 • Alain Di Chiappari

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Luddism 2026

Software Engineering is back: Answering the Room

Feb 14 • Alain Di Chiappari

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Software Engineering is back

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

Feb 7 • Alain Di Chiappari

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March 2025

Beyond Snippets: Where Are AI's Software Masterpieces?

Stay pragmatic: neither fear nor follow the vibe coding hype

Mar 26, 2025 • Alain Di Chiappari

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The Dev Metrics Game

And the playbook to win

Mar 14, 2025 • Alain Di Chiappari

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February 2025

On the Joy of Hacking

Praise for Software as Art and the loneliness that comes with it

Feb 20, 2025 • Alain Di Chiappari

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Rethinking MTTR

Is elevating DORA (& friends) metrics to business indicators a trap?

Feb 8, 2025 • Alain Di Chiappari

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March 2024

Sabotage 101: Company Culture Meltdown

Playbook for destroying company and engineering culture

Mar 7, 2024 • Alain Di Chiappari

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December 2023

Death by configuration parameters - Where to place complexity?

"A Philosophy of Software Design" pt.3

Dec 27, 2023 • Alain Di Chiappari

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