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Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven
Why software organizations should prefer genuinely good arguments to weak arguments dressed up with data and metrics.
Richard Marmorstein
Richard Marmorstein's software blog: essays on developer tools, programming languages, AI coding agents, and software culture.
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Not a real engineer (2019)
A short, dark prose poem on being told you are not a real engineer, and the monstrous thing you become instead.
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The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works (2019)
Why I joined my company's CI team to fix Jenkins, the two options we weighed, and what I learned about developer-productivity work.
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Not Mysticizing System Dynamics
A system dynamics model, properly considered, is just an analogy dressed up in a bit of formalism.