All My Articles

Stuff on Software Engineering Management for CTOs

Stuff I wrote over the years.

What does Open Source AI Even Mean

The 🪀Yo-Yo Effect of Developer Productivity

Stuck in Technical Debt? Do this

Engineering Cultures of Technical Debt

Reasons for Technical Debt

Sometimes DRY is not the right thing

Four Goal Model Explained

Mocking is an Anti-Pattern

How Unit Tests Really Help Preventing Bugs

I Had a Great Idea - E2E Testing For Free

Keep a List of Insecure Features

How I Wrote My CTO Book With My Own Tool

Accidental vs. Strategic Technical Debt

Do You Even Need A CTO As A Startup?

Dear CTO - This is Why Marketing is Getting All the Money

Misconceptions about the CPTO role

Goals are a Spectrum not a Number

Trust is Not a One-Way Street

Procrastination Does Not Exist

Let New Hires Write A Todo App

How To Succeed With A Rewrite - And Why They Fail

✨ Min vs Max Problem Solving

The Luck Formula

Too Many Developers Get Refactoring Wrong

Fair Developer Salaries for Remote Work

Just Use Postgres for Everything

😊 One Thing A Day For Happiness

The AI Manager - The End of Programming

The Mysterious Case of Lost Developer Productivity

The ZigZag Model of Vision and Strategy