But it's also good — Musings about the last year of Roomy development, and more.
Roomy & Designing for Communities | Fish | Offprint
My personal experiences working with the team at Roomy, and how I feel after the last 5 months helping with the project.
Modeling Software With Quint - Zicklag's Leaflets
I believe having good abstractions is key to writing good code. But as a coder, I often write code in an effort to find those abstractions…
Software Survival 3.0
I spent a lot of time writing software with AI last year, and I had some pretty good successes, notably Beads and Gas Town. I wrote a whole…
Software Survival 3.0
I spent a lot of time writing software with AI last year, and I had some pretty good successes, notably Beads and Gas Town. I wrote a whole…
How to create software quality.
I’ve been reading Steven Sinofsky’s Hardcore Software, and particularly enjoyed this quote from a memo discussed in the Zero Defects chapter: You can improve the quality of your code, and if you do, the rewards for yourself and for Microsoft will be immense. The hardest part is to decide that you want to write perfect code. If I wrote that in an internal memo, I imagine the engineering team would mutiny, but software quality is certainly an interesting topic where I continue to refine my thinking. There are so many software quality playbooks out there, and I increasingly believe that all these playbooks work in their intended context, but are often misapplied.
Getting started with Claude for software development
Blog post: Getting started with Claude for software development by Steve Klabnik
Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE)
The 12th Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE 2026) will take place online. LIVE invites submissions of ideas for improving the immediacy, usability, and learnability of programming.
The Motivation Blueprint | Learning Development Accelerator | Professional L&D Community
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Reflections: The ecosystem is moving
At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...
The End of Programming as We Know It
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