Archive - Robert Roskam's Newsletter

An engineering organization is a system that produces a system.

But how do we describe those systems?

Jul 5 •

October 2023

4 meta principles for software engineering

A brief review and analysis of maxims and manifestos made by software makers

Oct 20, 2023 •

Tests improve your future code

Using a FizzBuzz React Component as an example

Oct 13, 2023 •

September 2023

Why writing is an engineering superpower

And not just any writing, public writing

Sep 30, 2023 •

A simple framework to manage up

Sep 15, 2023 •

100% test coverage is not enough

In Praise of Property-Based Testing

Sep 1, 2023 •

August 2023

Text is the universal interface

How we've forgotten this to be true

Aug 25, 2023 •

Why Skill Acquisition is Hard

And why knowledge and motivation are NOT enough

Aug 18, 2023 •

Why would you want GraphQL

Or how frontend engineers tricked backend engineers into doing more work 😅

Aug 11, 2023 •

Why You Should Upgrade Laptops Regularly

3 Reasons for How it Effectives Your Productivity

Aug 4, 2023 •

July 2023

Why that AI tool didn't 10x your work

"Look Ma! No Thought!"

Jul 28, 2023 •

Software should do one thing well

Avoid the Land of Feature Creep where the Tech Debt Lies

Jul 21, 2023 •

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