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106 from 1 Jan 2001 to 10 Apr 2026
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2026 3

  1. It's Going to Get Weird
  2. Your File System Is Already a Graph Database
  3. The StaffEng Podcast is Back

2023 1

  1. Curiosity: An Unreasonably Powerful Tool

2022 2

  1. A Morbid Sense of Pride
  2. How my biggest work failure led to success

2020 14

  1. Expertise is all around - it's just not evenly distributed.
  2. Debriefing Facilitation Guide
  3. The Amazon Kinesis Event
  4. A Season for Reflection
  5. The Goal
  6. Site Reliability Engineering
  7. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
  8. Daily Stand-Up Meetings Start Breaking the Rules
  9. Selecting Empirical Methods for Software Engineering Research
  10. Just The Gimlet Episodes of StartUp
  11. Experiences from conducting semi-structured interviews in empirical software engineering research
  12. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
  13. The Phoenix Project
  14. The Fifth Discipline

2019 25

  1. The Case of What To Call My Role
  2. Give Thanks for Simple Tools
  3. A Kind Legacy For Go
  4. In The Beginning Was the Command Line
  5. What'll Programming Be Like
  6. Big Software Projects Are Failing
  7. Conventional Wisdom
  8. Cryptographic Right Answers
  9. Good API Design
  10. Performance Matters
  11. Devops
  12. Easy Simple Complicated Complex
  13. Anything From Julia Evans
  14. Helpful Numbers for Designing Technical Systems
  15. A Taxonomy of Ignorance
  16. Finding Out What You Dont Know
  17. A good commit message
  18. Value Over Tests
  19. The Three Ways
  20. Platforms Are All Around Us
  21. A Systems Approach
  22. A Pile of Links
  23. The Stream as a Guiding Metaphor
  24. How To Download The Internet by Accident
  25. 500 articles to read!

2018 2

  1. Advice for a software dev who is not a librarian but now finds themselves writing software for libraries
  2. Use Short-Lived AWS IAM Credentials For Everything

2017 3

  1. JSON Feed For Hugo
  2. JSONfeed
  3. Blogging as the Long View

2015 2

  1. Short Notes on Instant Articles
  2. Programs are meant to be read by humans, and only incidentally for computers to execute.

2014 3

  1. Full stack is more then a checkbox for your startup
  2. On To My Next Adventure
  3. How Vox Media Creates News Products

2013 23

  1. Introducing Lark a RESTy interface for Redis
  2. Feedbin.me Goes Open Source
  3. Open Question: What's the impact of Reader's shutdown on traffic?
  4. The Rumproarious eBook
  5. Network Thinking In TV
  6. What Would a Facebook Reader Mean?
  7. Tastestalking
  8. Juxtapositon In Feed Readers
  9. Reading Efficiently
  10. More On Sync and RSS
  11. Two Quotes About Google Reader
  12. Sync Is Key For Feed Readers
  13. Super Human Reading Powers
  14. The Pogue Piece on Reader
  15. Context Is King
  16. We Are In The RSS Cambrian Explosion
  17. Feeds on an Internet
  18. How Large Will the Paid Feed Reader Market Be?
  19. How Big is the RSS Market?
  20. Brent Simmons Creates RSS Sync Mailing List
  21. Waiting for Chris Wetherell
  22. Edward Tufte quote of the day
  23. Be Guilt Free

2012 7

  1. Going Long On Markdown
  2. Optimistic Server Interactions
  3. Standards spelunking, App.net, and a change of heart
  4. The New Aesthetic of Feeds
  5. RSS and New Media - comments so far
  6. A twitter conversation with Dave Winer
  7. RSS needs better PR

2011 10

  1. Google Reader Has Transitioned
  2. Reader Roundup Iranians, R$$, and More Funny Please.
  3. With google reader changing is there a competitor looming?
  4. My first attempt at figuring out why The Awl is so good.
  5. A quickie about how I use rss
  6. My #jqcon talk
  7. Reading Code
  8. RSS, I can't quit you.
  9. I have to say it, RSS is not dead.
  10. Goodbye PHP

2010 10

  1. Hacker from both Flickr, and Stamen Design writes about curation.
  2. I am leaving Yahoo!
  3. I wrote a guest post for the DailyJS: The Future of Mobile Sync
  4. Medium, Curators, and Jason Santa Maria
  5. HTML5 Brief: in a couple paragraphs
  6. I just read the most wonderful short story: Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store
  7. The mosh pit and cognative surplus.
  8. Published An Article On The YUI Blog
  9. User Driven Design, Requires Talking To Users
  10. Universal Feed Parser is awesome, except for embedded videos.

2001 1

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