Archive - Refactoring

The Manager's Path 📘

Our review + summary of the seminal work by Camille Fournier.

Jun 18 •

Engineering maturity, cloud vs on-prem, and CTOs 💡

Monday Ideas — Edition #160

Jun 16 •

The Future of Dev Tools 🔧 — with Dennis Pilarinos

Refactoring Podcast — Season 5 • Episode 5

Jun 13 •

40:23

How to Design APIs for an AI World 🔌

A thorough analysis of how AI changes what is needed from a good API, with real-world examples + some speculations about the future.

Jun 11 •

TDD, performance reviews, and diagnostic metrics 💡

Monday Ideas — Edition #159

Jun 9 •

The Engineering Manager Archetypes 📊

A thorough framework to identify how engineering managers create value inside orgs.

Jun 4 •

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Players, monorepos, and single-track careers 💡

Monday Ideas — Edition #158

Jun 2 •

May 2025

How to Manage Humans 🎽 — with Rands

Refactoring Podcast — Season 5 • Episode 4

May 30 •

52:53

How Code Reviews are Changing with AI 🔍

Reflections and predictions on the future of code reviews, taking inspiration from the CodeRabbit success.

May 28 •

Confidence, agile values, and startup ideas 💡

Monday Ideas — Edition #157

May 26 •

Shifting from Tech Debt to Tech Capital 🏦

How to move engineering teams from a mindset of scarcity to one of abundance

May 21 •

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Interruptions, skip levels, and good handbooks 💡

Monday Ideas — Edition #156

May 19 •

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