Weekend Engineering

Beyond Snippets: Where Are AI's Software Masterpieces?

Stay pragmatic: neither fear nor follow the vibe coding hype

Mar 26, 2025 • Alain

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The Dev Metrics Game

And the playbook to win

Mar 14, 2025 • Alain

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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

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Rethinking MTTR

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

Feb 8, 2025 • Alain

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March 2024

Sabotage 101: Company Culture Meltdown

Playbook for destroying company and engineering culture

Mar 7, 2024 • Alain

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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

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Must classes be small? Wrong question.

"A Philosophy of Software Design" pt.2 - Deep vs Shallow modules

Dec 3, 2023 • Alain

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November 2023

Tactical vs Strategic Developers

"A Philosophy of Software Design" pt.1

Nov 22, 2023 • Alain

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March 2023

Code Review

My point of view and takeaways

Mar 4, 2023 • Alain

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