I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters. Recently an email came in asking about writing team charters. I’ve worked at a number of companies that asked teams to write charters, and I think it’s an interesting project. That said, it’s not a project I’d generally prioritize. If you pushed me on this topic, I’d probably suggest you write an engineering strategy document from the perspective of your team.

Beyond preserving their careers by adapting to the new technology, developers could help guide the arrival of tools alleviating their own pain points. They could preserve that fundamental satisfaction of helping others, while tackling increasingly more complex problems.

When interacting with generative-AI bots, users engage in six types of conversations, depending on their skill levels and their information needs. Interfaces for UI bots should support and accommodate this diversity of conversation styles.

Hi. My name is Cabel. And I’ve probably got the neatest job in the whole world. I wear many hats. But here on my personal blog, I get to write about the things I really care about, just for y…

How GPTs will become the predominant way you interact with computers.

How running 200 million Lambdas in a year unveiled the agility and ease of serverless, but also revealed their pitfalls — scaling’s promise meets nuanced reality.

Posted on Friday 10 Nov 2023. 1,420 words, 18 links. By Matt Webb.

Applying Markov chains to a Taskmasker task.

As a leader, you want to effect change. But too much change can be detrimental and a sign of an unhealthy team. Here’s how to find the right balance.

Today, almost everything about our lives is digitally recorded and stored somewhere. Each credit card purchase, personal medical diagnosis, and preference about music and books is recorded and then used to predict what we like and dislike, and—ultimately—who we are. This often happens without our...

Kubernetes core maintainers should weigh the benefits of proposed new features against the additional complexity they would bring, the Kubernetes co-founder advised at this year's KubeCon.

The creator of the first ever banner ad on why it worked so well, and why its modern incarnations miss the mark

Last week in our Error 402 series on the history of web monetization, we covered how early paywalls for content almost universally failed. We’ll explore a bit more of the why later, but first we ne…

Manual integration testing for microservices is like trying to make cats march in a parade. There’s a better way.

Removing any form of CSS post-processing has me nostalgic for the other web development strategies that have become obsolete thanks to modern development strategies.

It is not recommended to use eBPF without a proper service provider and third-party tool set.

Continuous compliance through automation is key to stopping compliance and security errors before they happen, not just when you discover them.

The EU is poised to pass a sweeping new regulation, eIDAS 2.0. Buried deep in the text is Article 45, which returns us to the dark ages of 2011, when certificate authorities (CAs) could collaborate with governments to spy on encrypted traffic—and get away with it. Article 45 forbids browsers from...

I really, really don’t want an online integrated development environment. Why local IDEs still reign supreme in a cloud-crazy world.