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94 from 7 Aug 2009 to 3 Oct 2026
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2026 1

  1. What I'm doing now

2024 3

  1. Knowledge elicitation as intervention
  2. Infocom games and accessing knowledge
  3. Conceptual graphs as understanding

2022 1

  1. Tapestry

2018 8

  1. A future without linters
  2. Judging expertise
  3. Building Reg Watch
  4. TMTOWTDI and expertise
  5. Everyday expertise
  6. My January in reading and podcasts
  7. The continuity of expertise
  8. Expertise and attention

2017 5

  1. My 2017 in podcasts
  2. My 2017 in reading
  3. Expertise: success in a domain
  4. Expertise (n.)
  5. Expert (n.)

2016 1

  1. Attention, please

2015 1

  1. My 2014 in Reading

2014 4

  1. Wanting to be, not to do
  2. Predictions for Comixology+Amazon
  3. Postmortems: trust and confidence
  4. Two problems with antifragility

2013 21

  1. My 2013 in reading
  2. Problems with self-organization
  3. On valuing people
  4. On contact management
  5. On interview coding
  6. On Ansible
  7. On a flexible infrastructure
  8. On GitHub, DDOSs, and deploys
  9. On a schema.rb mystery
  10. On the conference I'd like to see
  11. On what I want to do
  12. On fairness and developer salaries
  13. On my productivity
  14. On "monitoring"
  15. On my recent brush with rhabdo
  16. On taking time to think
  17. On remote work
  18. On "people" problems
  19. On Integrity
  20. On Radical Honesty
  21. On Self-knowledge

2012 2

  1. On Self-Deception
  2. On Levels of Description

2011 5

  1. On Interface Segregation
  2. On Fractal Design
  3. On This Blog
  4. On Starting
  5. On Haml

2010 9

  1. Rumbled
  2. Event Updates
  3. Developer Day Austin wrapup
  4. Job descriptions vs. goals
  5. Letter-writing
  6. CodeMash recap
  7. Design-first development
  8. Practice isn't fun
  9. My five-year anniversary with Ruby

2009 33

  1. Weekly goals
  2. The flood of ideas
  3. Irreversibility
  4. Failure is bad.
  5. NoSQL talk report
  6. Twitter lists and the App Store
  7. RailsConf 2010
  8. Na[X]WriMo
  9. Speaker X again??
  10. H&P: What you can't say
  11. Drawing the line
  12. Developer Day Boulder
  13. Changing the default
  14. Conferences suck
  15. Follow-through
  16. Why should I register for your site?
  17. My beef with panels
  18. Refreshing the Triangle
  19. Application templates in Rails 3
  20. My workflow - now Cucumber-enhanced!
  21. WindyCityRails recap
  22. Speaking updates
  23. Polyglot persistence
  24. Go west, young developer
  25. Vending machine* usability
  26. Judging the Rumble
  27. The virtue of practice
  28. Vote for me!
  29. Developer Day Boston wrapup
  30. The presenter's pentathlon
  31. How to compete against commercial competition
  32. A blast from the past, for technical speakers
  33. Recentering