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2025 (92 articles)

Dec 29 Microservices Decision Guide: A Framework for Architecture Choices Programming

Dec 28 The Founder Burnout No One Talks About Founder & Career

Dec 27 Why Most AI Startups Will Fail by 2027 Startup Advisory

Dec 26 The Junior Developer Extinction Event Founder & Career

Dec 25 The Test Coverage Lie Contrarian

Dec 24 45+ Years in Technology: A Journey Founder & Career

Dec 23 Building Software for Government: What Nobody Tells You Founder & Career

Dec 22 Why I Still Trust Make Over Modern Build Tools Programming

Dec 21 Agentic AI's 40% Failure Rate: The Correction Nobody Wants AI & Tech

Dec 20 Why PostgreSQL Keeps Winning Programming

Dec 18 The AI Productivity Paradox: Why Developers Are 19% Slower Contrarian

Dec 17 AI Coding Tools Have No Institutional Memory AI & Tech

Dec 15 The GPU Shortage Aftermath AI & Tech

Dec 13 3,000 AWS Instances Later: The Real Cost of Cloud Founder & Career

Dec 12 The Dirty Secret of AI Video Generation AI & Tech

Dec 04 Static Sites Still Win Programming

Nov 29 AI Content Farms Are Killing Search AI & Tech

Nov 28 Observability Theater: When Dashboards Replace Understanding Programming

Nov 27 Assembly Never Left: Why I Still Write It in 2026 Programming

Nov 21 Agentic AI Is Just Automation With Better Marketing AI & Tech

Nov 20 The Pivot That Kills Startup Advisory

Nov 20 The ASR Industry Is Solving the Wrong Problem AI & Tech

Nov 19 Interview Alternatives That Actually Work Founder & Career

Nov 14 SQLite: Software Done Right Programming

Nov 09 Serverless Was a Lie Programming

Nov 08 The Founder Self-Awareness Advantage Founder & Career

Nov 03 The MVP Excuse: When 'Minimum' Became an Excuse for Garbage Startup Advisory

Oct 25 Open Source Maintainer Burnout: Critical Infrastructure Is Dying Programming

Oct 22 Why Hiring Senior Engineers Is Broken Founder & Career

Oct 20 When Rewrites Actually Succeed Programming

Oct 18 The Speech-to-Speech Revolution: When 300ms Changes Everything AI & Tech

Oct 15 LLMs Have No Intent: Why That Makes Them Dangerous AI & Tech

Oct 15 What CompuServe Taught Me About Platform Death Tech History

Oct 12 DeFi Will Never Be Finance Crypto & Blockchain

Oct 11 The SaaS Pricing Lie: Why Per-Seat Doesn't Scale Startup Advisory

Oct 05 What AI Agents Won't Replace AI & Tech

Oct 04 The Outsourcing Boomerang Startup Advisory

Sep 22 When to Kill Your Company Startup Advisory

Sep 20 Why Rust Won't Replace C Programming

Sep 15 Meetings Are Bugs in Your Organization Founder & Career

Sep 10 LeCun's Bet Against LLMs: Why the AI Contrarian Might Be Right AI & Tech

Sep 05 The Exit Planning Gap Startup Advisory

Aug 23 Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail AI & Tech

Aug 22 AI Sovereignty: The Expensive Illusion Every Nation Is Chasing AI & Tech

Aug 21 Why I Stopped Giving Advice Founder & Career

Aug 20 Standup Theater: When Agile Becomes Performance Contrarian

Aug 18 The Drone Delivery Fantasy: Why We're Still 10 Years Away Contrarian

Aug 17 Why Your AI Vendor Is Lying to You AI & Tech

Aug 14 Why Async Communication Beats Meetings (Almost Always) Founder & Career

Aug 10 The Browser Is Your Best Security Sandbox Programming

Jul 26 Microservices Were a Mistake for 90% of Companies Contrarian

Jul 25 When AI Coding Actually Helps: Patterns That Work AI & Tech

Jul 15 The Prompt Engineering Bubble AI & Tech

Jul 15 Grace Hopper's Nanosecond: The Wire That Explains Everything Tech History

Jul 13 The Hidden Cost of AI Calendar Assistants AI & Tech

Jul 12 I Built a CMS at MSNBC Before Anyone Called Them CMSs Tech History

Jul 10 Watching a Friend Get Hacked in 1987: The Security Lesson That Stuck Tech History

Jul 01 Open Source Isn't Free Contrarian

Jun 30 Why Your Company Doesn't Need a Data Lake Programming

Jun 24 Why a Priced Round is "Safer" Than a SAFE Startup Advisory

Jun 16 Code Review That Actually Works Programming

Jun 16 Why Every ASR System Lies About Its Accuracy AI & Tech

Jun 15 Why Bootstrapped Companies Win Startup Advisory

Jun 13 The Slack Trap: When Communication Tools Kill Productivity Founder & Career

Jun 01 AI Hallucinations in the Enterprise: The 4.3-Hour Weekly Tax AI & Tech

May 22 What Being a SysOp Taught Me About Running Systems Tech History

May 12 Domain-Specific ASR: Why General Models Fail in the Real World AI & Tech

May 10 The Series A Trap Startup Advisory

May 08 The 10 Architecture Decisions That Kill Startups Startup Advisory

May 07 The Dot-Com Crash From Inside Tech History

May 02 The USS Missouri's First Drone Surrender Tech History

Apr 27 Why I Never Use ORMs Contrarian

Apr 26 Why AI Wrappers Are the New Dropshipping AI & Tech

Apr 20 Most Security Breaches Don't Matter Contrarian

Apr 14 The Technical Due Diligence Checklist Startup Advisory

Apr 12 Small Language Models Will Eat Enterprise AI AI & Tech

Apr 07 The Local-First Renaissance Programming

Mar 28 The Senior Engineer Plateau Founder & Career

Mar 24 Every Dependency Is Technical Debt Programming

Mar 22 Why AI Agents Can't Remember (And What's Changing) AI & Tech

Mar 10 Computers Are Cheap, Developers Are Expensive Programming

Mar 10 AI Art Is Actually Good for Artists Contrarian

Mar 07 The Anatomy of High-Velocity Teams Programming

Feb 25 The Anatomy of a Production Outage Contrarian

Feb 15 European VC Funding: The Gap Between Headlines and Reality Startup Advisory

Jan 31 Web Spy: The Personal Web Crawler I Never Released Tech History

Jan 26 Those Old Programming Books Tech History

Jan 15 The Technical Co-Founder Burnout Nobody Talks About Founder & Career

Jan 11 Documentation as Product: What Open Source Gets Right Programming

Jan 10 The Solo Founder Loneliness Problem Startup Advisory

Jan 06 The AI Bubble Will Deflate, Not Pop AI & Tech

Jan 01 When Microservices Make Sense Programming

2024 (57 articles)

Dec 02 Startup Metrics Theater: Vanity vs Value Startup Advisory

Nov 27 C Was the Last Good Language Programming

Nov 08 What Text Adventures Taught Me About Software Tech History

Nov 05 Remote Work Made Us Worse Programming

Nov 02 Why Multimodal AI Is Massively Overhyped AI & Tech

Nov 01 Why I Spent $0 on Patents for 20 Years - Then Filed Everything Founder & Career

Oct 22 Serverless Done Right Programming

Oct 17 Your Users Don't Care About Your Architecture Startup Advisory

Oct 12 Mutation Testing Primer: Finding Real Bugs Programming

Oct 07 The Layer Tax: Every Abstraction Has a Price Programming

Oct 03 Why AI Can't Count the R's in Strawberry AI & Tech

Sep 28 When CompuServe Was the Internet Tech History

Sep 17 Crypto Is Bad in All Sorts of Ways Crypto & Blockchain

Sep 09 The Inventions I Never Shipped Founder & Career

Sep 07 The Best Code I Ever Wrote Was Deleted Programming

Sep 02 FidoNet: The Internet Before the Internet Tech History

Aug 28 Barren Realms Elite and the Golden Age of BBS Door Games Tech History

Aug 18 What the Navy Taught Me About Perspective Founder & Career

Aug 08 The Integration Tax: Every API Has a Price Programming

Aug 05 Technical Debt Is a People Problem, Not a Code Problem Founder & Career

Aug 03 I Solved Spam in the 90s (Nobody Cared) Tech History

Jul 24 I Evaluated Dozens of Blockchain Startups in 2018 Crypto & Blockchain

Jul 19 What BBS Culture Taught Us That Silicon Valley Forgot Tech History

Jul 14 The ASR Privacy Paradox AI & Tech

Jul 09 The Day Netscape Changed Everything Tech History

Jul 04 Speaker Diarization: The Hardest Problem Nobody Talks About AI & Tech

Jun 30 Why ICQ Died: Lessons From the First Instant Messenger Tech History

Jun 25 Write Your Own Build Scripts Programming

Jun 24 The NFT Crash Was Predictable Crypto & Blockchain

Jun 19 The Myth of Overnight Success Startup Advisory

Jun 14 Your Database Is Already the Best API You'll Ever Write Programming

Jun 09 Why Technical Interviews Test the Wrong Thing Contrarian

Jun 04 Why Engineers Should Own Their Build System Programming

May 29 Your Board Doesn't Understand Technology Startup Advisory

May 19 Feature Flags Are Technical Debt Programming

May 14 When to Fire Your First Engineering Hire Startup Advisory

May 09 The Shareware Model Nobody Remembers Tech History

May 04 Voice to Context to Action: A Framework for Operational Voice AI AI & Tech

May 01 The Platform Trap: Building on Someone Else's Land Startup Advisory

Apr 24 The Framework Treadmill: Why We Keep Relearning the Same Problems Programming

Apr 19 Why Voice AI Demos Always Work (And Production Never Does) AI & Tech

Apr 14 Blockchain: The Solution Looking for a Problem Crypto & Blockchain

Apr 11 When Your Product Stops Growing: The Diagnosis Nobody Wants Founder & Career

Apr 04 Founder Ego Kills Startups Faster Than Bad Code Contrarian

Mar 25 Programming Before Google: When You Had to Actually Know Things Tech History

Mar 20 The Death of the Technical Blog Post Contrarian

Mar 10 Technical Debt Isn't Debt - It's Rot Contrarian

Mar 05 How 'Piracy' Actually Helped Technology Move Forward Tech History

Feb 29 Code Review Is Broken Programming

Feb 19 I Work Faster Alone Contrarian

Feb 14 My First Computer Tech History

Feb 09 The Real Cost of Cheap GPUs Startup Advisory

Feb 04 Agile Is a Cargo Cult Contrarian

Jan 30 Debugging Before Stack Overflow Tech History

Jan 25 The Myth of the 10x Engineer Contrarian

Jan 20 What Prodigy Taught Me About Walled Gardens Tech History

Jan 15 The Rewrite Trap: Why 90% of Rewrites Fail Programming