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Why writing is an engineering superpower
And not just any writing, public writing
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Robert Roskam
How to Say No Differently
A simple framework to manage up
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Robert Roskam
Why 100% Test Coverage is Not Enough
In Praise of Property-Based Testing
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Robert Roskam
August 2023
Why Text is the Universal Interface
How we've forgotten this to be true
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Robert Roskam
Why Skill Acquisition is Hard
And why knowledge and motivation are NOT enough
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Robert Roskam
Why would you want GraphQL
Or how frontend engineers tricked backend engineers into doing more work 😅
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Robert Roskam
Why You Should Upgrade Laptops Regularly
3 Reasons for How it Effectives Your Productivity
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Robert Roskam
July 2023
Why that AI Tool Didn't 10x Your Work
"Look Ma! No Thought!"
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Robert Roskam
Software should do one thing well
Avoid the Land of Feature Creep where the Tech Debt Lies
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Robert Roskam
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Why the Second System Effect traps so many
Little by little we make too much.
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Robert Roskam
Why isn't blitzscaling working anymore?
Blitzscaling's lure is a Siren's song.
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Robert Roskam
June 2023
Why does Kubernetes exist?
And what you probably want instead.
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Robert Roskam
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