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The business of check cashing
Check cashing, as a business, is a poorly understood "alternative" financial service.
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What the The end of 0% interest rates means for software engineers
The end of 10+ years of 0% interest rates is set to change the tech industry. What do higher rates mean for software engineering jobs, developers, and careers; and how can you prepare for this shift?
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How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech
Although this article isn’t related to any of the 12 Challenges so far, it’s on a subject I’m developing for a potential future challenge.
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The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps
The Apple Vision Pro is missing some important apps, and it seems likely that Apple’s App Store policies played a part. Might the company respond by doubling down with Disney?
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How we crowdfunded $750k for a giant book about keyboard history
At first sight, the idea of 1,216-page two-volume work on keyboards for $150 might seem like a heavy lift. But it was years in the making.
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Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech
The lofty theory and the sordid reality of "perf".
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When the "R" goes missing from R&D (2021)
A Cautionary Tale about Too Much Siloing and Not Enough Trust
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How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer
Jump ahead • Timeline • Meeting the extraordinary ability criteria • How much does it cost? • Should you work with a lawyer?
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Balancing engineering cultures: Debate everything vs. just tell me what to build
Lessons from leaders at New Relic, Credit Karma, Reforge, Hubspot, Trulia, Intercom, VSCO, and more
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Boeing whistleblower: MAX 9 production line has "enormous volume of defects"
A reader at respected airline industry site Leeham News offered a comment that suggests they have access to Boeing’s internal quality control systems, and shares details of what they saw regarding the Boeing 737 MAX 9 flown by Alaska Airlines that had a door plug detach inflight, causing rapid decompression of the…
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Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers
Lessons learned from a year of startup life.
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Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference
I've recently set up my own consultancy company and decided to sponsor my local UKGovCamp conference. That entitled me to a logo on the site, a shout-out during the conference, and place to put any promotional stickers. Everyone loves stickers! But I decided to bring along something different - promotional sweeties! I…
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Silos are fine, as long as there is an API between them
"Destroying silos" is a clumsy solution to team isolation
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Four Magic Words
Long ago, in a parallel universe three doors down and one to the left of our own, OpenAI headquarters found itself in chaos. A klaxon blared overhead as red lights began flashing. A message played over a loud-speaker: “Warning! Warning! This is not a drill! Artificial General Intelligence window
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Mourning Google
On March 15, 2010, I started a new job at Google . The fourteen years since that day feel like a century. The title of my announcement was Now A No-Evil Zone and, OK, I can hear the laughing from ten timezones away. I tried, then, to be restrained, but there are hardly words to describe how happy and excited I was. I…
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A 2024 Plea for Lean Software
This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth, a computing pioneer who passed away January 1st. In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “A Plea for Lean Software”, and in what follows, I try to make the same case nearly 30 years later, updated for today’s computing horrors. The really short version: the…
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What happened to the US machine tool industry?
Machine tools – machines that cut or form metal – are the heart of industrial civilization.
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The quiet death of Ello's big dreams
Ello launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened?
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Corporations are not to be loved
I started using Apple computers — and writing code for them, starting with BASIC — 43 years ago, before the Macintosh, even, and I’ve made this my career. I’ve had all these decades to really, thoroughly delight in these incredible machines and software, and to give a little back with my own apps.
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Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement
No matter what the sport, no matter what the letter of the rulebook says, it’s never a good idea to piss off the refs.
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Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they've solved.
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I regret selling my startup
Selling my company was a milestone that many entrepreneurs dream of. But today, I get to look back on all of that nearly two years later with the benefit of hindsight.
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A Theory of Grift
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Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality
I think we have an answer on whether AIs will reshape work....
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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on navigating complex systems
Few can measure the impact of a blog post they wrote, in the millions of dollars a year, but Patrick McKenzie has the receipts
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Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees
Last Updated: January 24, 2026One of the most enlightening moments in my career was when I discovered a…