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Engineering Management

• New addition to the Engineering Manager's Bookshelf: Never Split The Difference — March 13, 2023
• The Engineering Manager's Bookshelf — July 14, 2022
• Stack Overflow’s Roberta Arcoverde on Hanselminutes — July 7, 2022

Event Reports

• Running (kindof) the 2024 Tarawera Ultramarathon — June 1, 2024

Friday Videos

• Trash Theory: So what is 'Say It Ain’t So' by Weezer actually about? — September 20, 2024
• Hannah Fry: Can AI really detect you emotions? — May 31, 2024
• Steve Albini and Anthony Bourdain eat a sandwich in Chicago — May 24, 2024
• Casey Neistat - Sisyphus and the Impossible Dream — March 1, 2024
• Adaptory demo on Steam — February 9, 2024
• "Hello, World" in 5 cursed languages that noone should use — December 22, 2023
• Elite - "the game that couldn't be written" — December 15, 2023
• Rob Pike - The History of UNIX — October 13, 2023
• 10 Minute Squat Test — September 15, 2023
• Career advice from Barack Obama - "Learn how how to get stuff done" — September 1, 2023
• Kiwiana & Code, Katrina Clokie at NZ Tech Rally 2023 — July 21, 2023
• Fostering a quality quality culture, Adam Howard at NZ Tech Rally 2023 — July 14, 2023
• Automation is hard! And we are doing it wrong... a talk by Johan Abildskov — June 30, 2023
• Hostile Javascript: Attacking And Defending The Browser, a talk by Todd H. Gardener — June 9, 2023
• Doom meets House of Leaves in MyHouse.wad — May 26, 2023
• Cal Newport on Overload and Jerry Seinfeld on Doing Nothing — May 19, 2023
• Robots learn to play football — May 12, 2023
• Remastering Age Of Empires, or how to actually run and complete a software modernisation project — May 5, 2023
• The Magnitude 9.1 Meltdown at Fukushima by Nickolas Means — April 28, 2023
• TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong, a talk by Ian Cooper — April 14, 2023
• How To Run 100 Miles, a documentary by Brendan Leonard — March 31, 2023
• Analyzing an analyzer - A dive into how RuboCop works by Kyle d'Oliveira — March 24, 2023
• Neal Stephenson's Opening Keynote at D.I.C.E Summit 2023 — March 17, 2023
• Making the most of your manager, a talk by Katrina Clokie — March 10, 2023
• Functional programming for fun and profit!! by Jenny Shih — March 3, 2023
• Double Fine PsychOdyssey — February 17, 2023
• Cracking the cadence of your software engineering 1:1s — January 20, 2023
• Cal Newport on Slow Productivity — December 9, 2022
• Coding Snake on an Apple ][ — December 2, 2022
• The Mathematics of Weight Loss, a talk by Ruben Meerman — November 11, 2022
• How to crash an airplane, a talk by Nickolas Means — November 4, 2022
• Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter from Kurt Vonnegut — October 14, 2022
• Andrew Huberman on the optimal morning routine — October 7, 2022
• Expanding Eve Online's server potential with gRPC — September 30, 2022
• Hades - Developing Hell — September 23, 2022
• Dave Farley describes the London and Chicago schools of Test Driven Development — September 16, 2022
• Michael Feathers on Object Oriented and Functional approaches to programming — September 9, 2022
• Theraputic Refactoring, a talk by Katrina Owen — September 2, 2022
• Productivity Engineering - Surviving DevOps, a talk by Mike McGarr — August 26, 2022
• Double Fine Adventure — August 19, 2022
• Derek Sivers talks about how to start a movement — August 12, 2022
• id Software's Programming Principles — August 5, 2022
• Mark Cerny describes the "Method" — July 29, 2022
• This one simple 600-year-old trick makes your website more accessible - Nick Piesco at !!Con — July 22, 2022
• Pushing Through Friction, a talk by Daniel Na — July 15, 2022
• Classic Game Postmortem - Sid Meier's Civilization — July 8, 2022

Kata

• New website feature: Iterative TV — July 19, 2023
• Fighting Fantasy Combat in Twine — July 20, 2022

Miscellany

• Back to work — July 2, 2023
• Open to work — April 15, 2023
• Rebooting this website — June 1, 2022

Monday Links

• Monday Links 50 — August 19, 2024
• Monday Links 49 — June 3, 2024
• Monday Links 48 — May 27, 2024
• Monday Links 47 — May 13, 2024
• Monday Links 46 — April 22, 2024
• Monday Links 45 — February 5, 2024
• Monday Links 44 — January 8, 2024
• Monday Links 43 — December 18, 2023
• Monday Links 42 — November 6, 2023
• Monday Links 41 — October 9, 2023
• Monday Links 40 — September 18, 2023
• Monday Links 39 — September 4, 2023
• Monday Links 38 — August 28, 2023
• Monday Links 37 — August 21, 2023
• Monday Links 36 — July 31, 2023
• Monday Links 35 — July 24, 2023
• Monday Links 34 — July 17, 2023
• Monday Links 33 — July 10, 2023
• Monday Links 32 — July 3, 2023
• Monday Links 31 — June 26, 2023
• Monday Links 30 — June 5, 2023
• Monday Links 29 — May 22, 2023
• Monday Links 28 — May 15, 2023
• Monday Links 27 — May 8, 2023
• Monday Links 26 — May 1, 2023
• Monday Links 25 — April 24, 2023
• Monday Links 24, but on a Tuesday — April 16, 2023
• Monday Links 23 — April 3, 2023
• Monday Links 22 — March 27, 2023
• Monday Links 21 — March 20, 2023
• Monday Links 20 — March 13, 2023
• Monday Links 19 — March 6, 2023
• Monday Links 18 — December 5, 2022
• Monday Links 17 — November 28, 2022
• Monday Links 16 — November 7, 2022
• Monday Links 15 — October 31, 2022
• Monday Links 14 — October 17, 2022
• Monday Links 13 — October 10, 2022
• Monday Links 12 — October 3, 2022
• Monday Links 11 — September 26, 2022
• Monday Links 10 — September 19, 2022
• Monday Links 9 — September 12, 2022
• Monday Links 8 — September 5, 2022
• Monday Links 7 — August 29, 2022
• Monday Links 6 — August 22, 2022
• Monday Links 5 — August 15, 2022
• Monday Links 4 — August 8, 2022
• Monday Links 3 — August 1, 2022
• Monday Links 2 — July 25, 2022
• Monday Links 1 — July 18, 2022

Software Development Principles

• Don't rely on your customer's common sense — July 27, 2022