Bliki: Future Of Software Development
In Februrary 2026, Thoughtworks hosted a workshop called “The Future of Software Development” in Deer Valley Utah. While it was held in the mountains...
1mo ago
Context Engineering for Coding Agents
The number of options we have to configure and enrich a coding agent’s context has exploded over the past few months. Claude Code is leading the charg...
1mo ago
I replaced a $120/year micro-SaaS in 20 minutes with LLM-generated code
I used to pay $120/year for a SaaS that hasn’t added new features in four years, and didn’t fix its broken billing system for three years. Using an LL...
Gergely Orosz2mo ago
Bliki: Excessive Bold
I'm increasingly seeing a lot of technical and business writing make heavy use of bold font weights, in an attempt to emphasize what the writers think...
2mo ago
State of the Subreddit (January 2027): Mods applications and rules updates
tl;dr: mods applications and minor rules changes. Also it's 2026, lol. Hello fellow programs! It's been a while since I've checked in and I wanted to...
/u/ketralnis2mo ago
Assessing internal quality while coding with an agent
Erik Doernenburg is the maintainer of CCMenu: a Mac application that shows the status of CI/CD builds in the Mac menu bar. He assesses how using a cod...
2mo ago
Conversation: LLMs and the what/how loop
A conversation between Unmesh Joshi , Rebecca Parsons , and Martin Fowler on how LLMs help us shape the abstractions in our software. We view our chal...
2mo ago
Stop Picking Sides: Manage the Tension Between Adaptation and Optimization
Jim Highsmith notes that many teams have turned into tribes wedded to exclusively adaptation or optimization. But he feels this misses the point that...
2mo ago
Newsvia Martin Fowler
My favorite musical discoveries of 2025
My favorite albums from last year. Balkan brass, an acoustic favorite of 80s returns, Ethio-jazz, Guatemalan singer-guitarist, jazz-rock/Indian classi...
2mo ago
The grief when AI writes most of the code
When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering? There is grief involved for us developers, that's for sure.
Gergely Orosz2mo ago
The Pulse: Cloudflare’s latest outage proves dangers of global configuration changes (again)
Deja vu: a large Cloudflare outage caused by an instantly rolled-out global config change – two weeks after a similar problem
Gergely Orosz3mo ago
Writing Fragments
If you’re a regular reader of my site, you’ll have noticed that in the last few months I’ve been making a number of “fragments” posts . Such a post is...
Martin Fowler (martin@martinfowler.com)3mo ago
How-Tovia The Pragmatic Engineer
The Pulse: Could a 5-day RTO be around the corner for Big Tech?
From next February, workers at Instagram must be in the office, five days a week. This makes Meta the second tech giant after Amazon to mandate a 5-da...
Gergely Orosz3mo ago
Fragments Dec 11
Why does AI write like… that (NYT, gift link). Sam Kriss delves into the quiet hum of AI writing. AI’s work is not compelling prose: it’s phantom text...
Martin Fowler (martin@martinfowler.com)3mo ago
Downdetector and the real cost of no upstream dependencies
During the Cloudflare outage, Downdetector was also unavailable. I got details from the team about why they have a hard dependency on Cloudflare, and...
Gergely Orosz4mo ago
A startup in Mongolia translated my book
A 30-person startup called Nasha Tech translated The Software Engineer's Guidebook for the benefit of their company and the Mongolian tech ecosystem.
Gergely Orosz4mo ago
The Pulse: Cloudflare takes down half the internet – but shares a great postmortem
A database permissions change ended up knocking Cloudflare’s proxy offline. Pinpointing the root cause was tricky – but Cloudflare shared a detailed p...
Gergely Orosz4mo ago
Four years on writing a tech book: pitching to a publisher
In 2019, I decided to write a book about software engineering. As an experienced software engineer and manager, I had the topic clear in my head, and...
Gergely Orosz4mo ago
The Pulse: Amazon layoffs – AI or economy to blame?
Amazon is doing more mass layoffs, claiming it wants to be more nimble. But are job losses really about US economic fears, and how Amazon’s retail bus...
Gergely Orosz4mo ago
Comparing interviews at 8 large tech companies
Puneet Patwari applied to 8 major tech companies, and received 6 offers. He compares his interview experiences at Meta, Amazon, Uber, and 5 other work...
Gergely Orosz5mo ago
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