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The Hum of the Machine

Leaving Sourcegraph

It's a Negotiation

Polishing Forks

Watching A Pathological System

It's not up to you

Playful Programming

Zig Zaggin'

Laying Siege to a Bug

Notes From the Field: Learning Zig

One Week of Nothing to Do

Who removes rules?

Someone on the Other End

Learning from Bellard

You don't need an opinion

Has Software Development Become Slower?

Momentum

Every Line a Chance for Greatness

Is looking cool underrated in education?

Programming in a Well-Tested System

To truly fix a bug, one must truly know the bug

Software is like Coca-Cola

Allergic to Waiting

Nothing in My Way Except Myself

The Most Powerful Law in Software

Stumbling in the Dark

Cadence of Code

Making a plan

What do others do without tests?

When the cymbals come in

The Age of a Software Project

The Messy Page

Do papercuts matter?

Best practices and an elephant

A series of ever-bigger problems

Two types of software engineers

Flipping the switch

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