The Curious Engineer

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Charles-Axel Dein's personal website.

Engineering management / careersSoftware / engineering practicePythonTesting / QA

’15’20’25
Posts
21 from 9 Nov 2011 to 28 May 2026
Posting
now and then (4 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog

2026 4

  1. Interviewing in the age of AI
  2. When should a manager step in?
  3. It's time to move your docs in the repo
  4. Write and checkout the plan

2021 1

  1. A Python project checklist

2020 3

  1. Senior engineers ship and uplift
  2. A functional style leads to simpler code
  3. Starting a new job as an engineering manager

2019 1

  1. Test coverage only matters if it's at 100%

2017 1

  1. The great microservices migration

2016 1

  1. Negative feedback antipatterns

2015 2

  1. 10 principles for good code
  2. Maslow's pyramid of code review

2014 2

  1. Engineering managers’ priorities in a hyper-growth startup
  2. Learnings from six months as a first-time engineering manager

2013 4

  1. Code as Craft
  2. Resources to learn coding
  3. Code is not the end
  4. Using qcachegrind to visualize Python profiling data

2011 2

  1. Why I keep on using Vim instead of going back to TextMate
  2. Articles from Joel Spolsky about functional specifications