IKEA-Oriented Development

Every codebase is a home. Repos carry scars, arguments, memories, secrets, decorations, and sometimes graffiti. Programmers are homeowners. They perform repairs, rearrange things, and embark on redesigns.

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How To Be An Engineer That PMs Don’t Hate

Engineers have one thing that creates a very unique power balance: they ship the code. Engineers can get some stuff done without PM or design, but PM and design cannot realize business value via product without engineers building it.

Tindall On Software Delays

When this Tindallgram was published on June 6th, 1966, nasa had received information from MIT that the software going into space would be late. Tindall went to MIT to see what could be done about the schedule.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023

In May 2023 over 90,000 developers responded to our annual survey about how they learn and level up, which tools they're using, and which ones they want.

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Postgres — Live Table Partitioning

How we achieved the partitioning of 1TB of data on a live system, with zero downtime.

Postgres reconsiders its process-based model

In the fast-moving open-source world, programs can come and go quickly; a tool that has many users today can easily be eclipsed by something better next week. Even in this environment, though, some programs endure for a long time.