Archive - The Daily Developer

The RouteSketch exercise

Building small tools for yourself is fun

May 20 •

Zoom leadership performance art

Morning pages about human nature and remote work

May 19 •

April 2025

March 2025

We aren't going back

Yep, another one about LLMs and Agents

Mar 17 •

Building ChatBSC

Using AI agents to build a product in a few hours

Mar 8 •

September 2024

Using a stand-up desk has improved my performance at work

A low-stakes experiment with high upside

Sep 9, 2024 •

August 2024

You can be right, or you can be effective

History is full of people who were right but who nonetheless didn't accomplish much.

Aug 21, 2024 •

June 2024

Why is redirect logic always so complex?

and what can we do to address it?

Jun 5, 2024 •

May 2024

High performers job hop when they can't find a high performance culture

On people leaving bad managers, frequently

May 20, 2024 •

April 2024

Unit tests considered harmful? No.

I stumbled across this post today, which represents (I think) a widely held belief that unit tests are bad.

Apr 12, 2024 •

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