Tame product development chaos with YOUR Platform.

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#abstraction

🧩 Composing is hard, complexity is easy -

🎼 Compose software like music -

Abstractions and Platforms -

Coupling -

What is a good abstraction? -

#accessibility

📁 The file dilemma -

Effective email is either a pointer or notification -

#action

🚴 The power of movement -

#agile

🥣 The two ingredients for agility -

#ai

🔄 Close the loop with AI -

💰 Ways to reduce your AI costs -

📁 The file dilemma -

🔄 AI and documentation - close the loop -

🤖 AI is the new compiler -

✨ Anyone can write scripts now -

🤖 How I use Claude Code to help publish this blog -

🔭 Text based formats and command-line tools are the future -

🔄 Flipping the playbook for AI coding -

🧑‍💻 The first step in AI coding -

🤖 The biggest problem with AI -

🤖 What is AI good for? -

🧑‍💻 Will AI cause coding to disappear? -

What is the role of AI in your platform? -

#arch

🏆 The entire story -

🚀 How can Arch Linux get by without releases? -

#architecture

🔗 Integration, not isolation (part 2) -

🔗 Integration, not isolation -

🧩 Composing is hard, complexity is easy -

🎼 Compose software like music -

➡️ Frontload the boring stuff -

Abstractions and Platforms -

Architecture vs. Optimization -

#asset

🌱 OSS can decrease or increase your code liability -

#automation

💰 Ways to reduce your AI costs -

🔄 AI and documentation - close the loop -

✨ Anyone can write scripts now -

🤖 How I use Claude Code to help publish this blog -

🎉 200 posts -

🌿 A natural way to get more testing/automation -

🤏 Handling the small details -

The three legs of YOUR Platform -

envsetup.sh -- a very useful automation technique -

What is the simplest form of automation? -

#BCR

🏆 The entire story -

#BSP

Github and why does it matter? -

Tracking upstream and why does it matter? -

What makes a good Yocto BSP? -

#business

🗂️ Git has an unfortunate name -

📈 What do we mean by scaling? -

⬆️ The business case for improvement -

#cad

➡️ Frontload the boring stuff -

#cd

🚀 Git driven CD -- you know what got deployed -

How to help yourself? -

#Certainty

✅ Guarantees -

#change

🔗 Connected systems are different -

#changelog

📄 Who is a changelog for? -

#chat

👥 Alternatives to meetings -

#checklist

✅ The problem with software -

🛤️ Two paths with experience -

#ci

How to help yourself? -

#closed-loop

🔄 Closed-loop engineering -

🚴 The power of movement -

🔄 Closed-loop humans -

🔄 Look for closed loops -

🔄 Close the loop with AI -

🔄 AI and documentation - close the loop -

#coding

🚴 The power of movement -

🤖 AI is the new compiler -

#collaboration

💰 What is the cheapest PDM tool out there? -

🗂️ Git has an unfortunate name -

📁 Git* solves the problem of managing files -

✍️ Effective communication (Written) -

🔗 Integration, not isolation (part 2) -

🔭 Text based formats and command-line tools are the future -

🤝 Modern product development is a collaborative endeavor -

👷 The tension between solo and collaborative work -

🛠️ Selecting tools -

The three legs of YOUR Platform -

Inbox zero -

#commitments

Keeping commitments -

#communication

🔄 Closed-loop humans -

🗂️ Git has an unfortunate name -

✏️ Effective Communication (Sketching) -

🎨 Effective Communication (Drawing) -

📹 Effective Communication (Video) -

📸 Effective Communication (Images) -

✍️ Effective communication (Written) -

🎧 Effective communication (Audio) -

📧 Top vs bottom posting in email -

#community

🤝 Modern product development is a collaborative endeavor -

Advanced technology and small players -

Github and why does it matter? -

Tracking upstream and why does it matter? -

What makes a good Yocto BSP? -

#confidence

🥣 The two ingredients for agility -

#consistency

Dates in filenames -

Platforms vs Architecture Astronautics -

How do you consistently name things? -

How can we be more consistent? -

Does consistency matter? -

#constraints

The Beauty of Constraints -

The tragedy of no constraints -

#containers

🔗 Integration, not isolation -

#context

📁 The file dilemma -

Effective email is either a pointer or notification -

#control

📁 Git* solves the problem of managing files -

🕹️ What can we control? -

Control is a scary thing -

What is control? -

Why do we need some level of control? -

#cost

💰 Ways to reduce your AI costs -

💰 What is the cheapest PDM tool out there? -

#coupling

🔗 Integration, not isolation -

Coupling -

#creativity

✏️ Effective Communication (Sketching) -

Creativity -

#csv

🌱📈 Simplicity scales -

📈 What is the quickest way to store and track data? -

#culture

🗂️ Git has an unfortunate name -

📧 Top vs bottom posting in email -

Rituals and Culture -

Culture -

#customer

🤝 Modern product development is a collaborative endeavor -

👤 Who is our "customer"? -

👥 Your team as the customer -

👥 Who is the customer in organizational hierarchy? -

👤 Confusion about when we are the customer -

🕊️ Simple -- from whose perspective? -

#daily

🎉 200 posts -

100 daily emails -

What will you improve today? -

#data

📁 The file dilemma -

📈 What is the quickest way to store and track data? -

👌 Struggling to scale your IoT system? Simplify your data. -

#data structures

Coupling -

🌱📈 Simplicity scales -

#dates

Dates in filenames -

#debt

🔄 Open loops -> technical debt -

✅ The problem with software -

#debugging

Seeing patterns -

#deep work

👷 The tension between solo and collaborative work -

#demo

Demos vs. Products -

#dependencies

Isn't it risky to update your dependencies? -

The cost of updating dependencies, or not -

#deployment

Do you own your deployment? -

#details

🤏 Handling the small details -

#different

Do something different -

#discipline

🎉 200 posts -

#disipline

Keeping commitments -

#distributed

🔗 Connected systems are different -

#documentation

💰 Ways to reduce your AI costs -

📁 Git* solves the problem of managing files -

🔄 AI and documentation - close the loop -

🤖 AI is the new compiler -

✍️ Effective communication (Written) -

🔄 Flipping the playbook for AI coding -

📝 Documentation is part of the process, not an afterthought -

Personal vs. collaborative documentation -

How to help yourself? -

#drawing

🚴 The power of movement -

✏️ Effective Communication (Sketching) -

🎨 Effective Communication (Drawing) -

#dry

Abstractions and Platforms -

#email

✍️ Effective communication (Written) -

📧 Top vs bottom posting in email -

✉️ Email filters -

Effective email is either a pointer or notification -

Inbox zero -

#embedded

🔗 Integration, not isolation -

#errors

When things go wrong ... -

#experience

📝 What is my process for capturing experience? (part 3) -

📝 What is my process for capturing experience? (part 2) -

📝 What is my process for capturing experience? -

🧠 How to leverage experience? -

🔭 How to encourage vision? -

🧠🔭 The tension of experience and vision -

🧠🔭 Experience and Vision -

📊 Past performance ... -

🛤️ Two paths with experience -

#experts

The problem with experts -

#fallibility

⚠️ Toward a Theory of Medical Fallibility -

#false

False vs Real Platform Development -

#feedback

🔄 Closed-loop engineering -

🔄 Closed-loop humans -

🔄 Look for closed loops -

🔄 Close the loop with AI -

🎉 200 posts -

🔄 Open loops -> technical debt -

#files

📁 Git* solves the problem of managing files -

📁 The file dilemma -

#finish

Easy to start vs. easy to finish -

#focus

Preparation - lessons from the kitchen -

#friction

🥣 The two ingredients for agility -

What is the #1 purpose of YOUR Platform? -

#future

What is the role of vision? -

Preparing for the future -

The present or the future? -

But what if ... -

#git

💰 What is the cheapest PDM tool out there? -

🗂️ Git has an unfortunate name -

📁 Git* solves the problem of managing files -

🚀 Git driven CD -- you know what got deployed -

🛠️ Another reason to self-host Gitea -

🛠️ Git* -- the new standard for workflow -

The importance of small Git commits/pull-requests -

The importance of Git Commit/Push often -

Inbox zero -

How can you make your commercial source code customers happy? -

Where do you put stuff? -

What is the best tool for private Git repos? -

Github and why does it matter? -

#gitea

🛠️ Git* -- the new standard for workflow -

How can you make your commercial source code customers happy? -

What is the best tool for private Git repos? -

#github

🛠️ Git* -- the new standard for workflow -

#gitlab

🛠️ Git* -- the new standard for workflow -

#goals

Goals vs. Systems -

#golden

No Golden Machines -

#google

You are not Google -

#growth

📈 What do we mean by scaling? -

#habits

🔄 Closed-loop humans -

✏️ Effective Communication (Sketching) -

Thinking, Designing, Developing, Engineering ... -

Habits -- a critical ingredient in YOUR Personal Platform -

#hack

Hack-it, ship-it, forget-it ... -

#hardware

♻️ How to iterate quickly on hardware -

#headset

Use a headset optimized for calls -

#help

How to help yourself? -

#hiring

⚙️ Fix systems, not people -

#humility

Humility -

#improvement

🔄 Closed-loop engineering -

🔄 Closed-loop humans -

🔄 Look for closed loops -

🔄 Close the loop with AI -

🔄 AI and documentation - close the loop -

🔄 Open loops -> technical debt -

⬆️ The business case for improvement -

⬆️ The path of improvement -

⬆️ What is improvement? -

Improve development efficiency, reduce technical debt -

Good enough is not good enough -

What will you improve today? -

#innovation

A platform stuck in time -

#integration

📁 The file dilemma -

🔗 Integration, not isolation (part 2) -

🔗 Integration, not isolation -

✅ Guarantees -

🛠️ The defining characteristic of a good workflow tool -

🤝 Integrate early -

Creativity -

#iot

👌 Struggling to scale your IoT system? Simplify your data. -

#iteration

🚴 The power of movement -

🔄 AI and documentation - close the loop -

♻️ How to iterate quickly on hardware -

The importance of Git Commit/Push often -

#kids

What can kids teach us about platforms? -

#learning

🔄 Closed-loop engineering -

🚴 The power of movement -

🔄 Closed-loop humans -

🔄 Look for closed loops -

🔄 Close the loop with AI -

📹 Effective Communication (Video) -

#levels

Support from the top -

Three levels of YOUR Platform -

#liability

🌱 OSS can decrease or increase your code liability -

#lifecycle

Demos vs. Products -

Lifecycle management in dynamic systems -

#linux

📁 The file dilemma -

🚀 How can Arch Linux get by without releases? -

#long

📈 What do we mean by scaling? -

The long game -

#maintenance

🧩 Composing is hard, complexity is easy -

How to keep a product maintainable? -

Good enough is not good enough -

What makes a good Yocto BSP? -

Hack-it, ship-it, forget-it ... -

Three levels of YOUR Platform -

False vs Real Platform Development -

The long game -

Simplicity -

The Beauty of Constraints -

#management

📁 Git* solves the problem of managing files -

👥 Everybody Works and the impact on meetings -

Support from the top -

#markdown

🌱📈 Simplicity scales -

Personal vs. collaborative documentation -

Inbox zero -

#math

What can kids teach us about platforms? -

#meetings

🎧 Effective communication (Audio) -

👥 Alternatives to meetings -

👥 Everybody Works and the impact on meetings -

👥 Efficient meetings -

👥 Meetings and human relationships -

👥 Why meetings? -

Use a headset optimized for calls -

#meta

Introduction -

#metrics

📏 Goodhart's law -

#monorepo

Seeing patterns -

#naming

Dates in filenames -

How do you consistently name things? -

#notes

Personal vs. collaborative documentation -

What is your most important tool? -

#open

🔭 Text based formats and command-line tools are the future -

#optimization

💰 Ways to reduce your AI costs -

Architecture vs. Optimization -

#organic

Culture -

#organization

🔄 Open loops -> technical debt -

How to get the little things done? -

Where do you put stuff? -

#oss

🗂️ Git has an unfortunate name -

📧 Top vs bottom posting in email -

🤝 Modern product development is a collaborative endeavor -

🧑‍💻 How can we increase developer productivity? -

🌱 OSS can decrease or increase your code liability -

How can you make your commercial source code customers happy? -

Advanced technology and small players -

What happens when someone else tries to use your work? -

Github and why does it matter? -

Tracking upstream and why does it matter? -

What makes a good Yocto BSP? -

Culture -

#other

What is the difference between YOUR Platform and other platforms? -

#others

👷 Do we make more work for others or less? -

#own

Owning YOUR platform is not more expensive -

#partitioning

When edge nodes grow up -

How do you partition systems? -

#partnumber

🏭 Semi-structured part numbers -

#patterns

Seeing patterns -

#people

👤 It's all about the people -

Platform != People -

#personal

🎉 200 posts -

Personal vs. collaborative documentation -

What is your most important tool? -

Use a headset optimized for calls -

Habits -- a critical ingredient in YOUR Personal Platform -

Three levels of YOUR Platform -

#phases

🌒🌓🌔The four phases of product development -

#platform

💰 What is the cheapest PDM tool out there? -

📁 The file dilemma -

✨ Anyone can write scripts now -

📈 What do we mean by scaling? -

🌱📈 Simplicity scales -

The three legs of YOUR Platform -

The Platform Test -

What is YOUR Platform? (v2) -

What is your Platform? -

#pomodoro

How to get the little things done? -

#preparation

Preparation - lessons from the kitchen -

#present

The present or the future? -

#proactive

Are your processes proactive or reactive? -

#problem

Lessons from a 1-year old dog -

Solving problems or symptoms? -

#process

🔄 Look for closed loops -

🔄 Close the loop with AI -

🤖 AI is the new compiler -

🎉 200 posts -

🔗 Integration, not isolation (part 2) -

🔄 Open loops -> technical debt -

📝 What is my process for capturing experience? (part 3) -

📝 What is my process for capturing experience? (part 2) -

📝 What is my process for capturing experience? -

🧠 How to leverage experience? -

🚀 Git driven CD -- you know what got deployed -

🔄 The secret to process -

⚙️ Fix systems, not people -

The three legs of YOUR Platform -

Thinking, Designing, Developing, Engineering ... -

Are your processes proactive or reactive? -

When things go wrong ... -

#product

💰 What is the cheapest PDM tool out there? -

Demos vs. Products -

#productivity

🔄 Close the loop with AI -

🤖 AI is the new compiler -

✨ Anyone can write scripts now -

✏️ Effective Communication (Sketching) -

🎨 Effective Communication (Drawing) -

📹 Effective Communication (Video) -

📸 Effective Communication (Images) -

🎧 Effective communication (Audio) -

🧑‍💻 How can we increase developer productivity? -

#programming

🧩 Composing is hard, complexity is easy -

🔄 Flipping the playbook for AI coding -

🧑‍💻 The first step in AI coding -

🧑‍💻 Will AI cause coding to disappear? -

#reflection

📝 What is my process for capturing experience? (part 3) -

Platform reflection -

#relationships

👥 Meetings and human relationships -

#release

🔄 When to update application dependencies? -

🌿 A natural way to get more testing/automation -

⏩ Get on with it ... -

🔄 What is the best software release frequency? -

🚀 How can Arch Linux get by without releases? -

🚀 Why are releases important? -

📄 Who is a changelog for? -

#reliability

The easiest path to reliability ... -

#reliablility

🛡️ How to get to secure and reliable -

#reuse

It's about not starting over every time -

#risk

Isn't it risky to update your dependencies? -

#rituals

Rituals and Culture -

#satisfaction

Joy -

#scalability

📁 The file dilemma -

#scaling

📈 What do we mean by scaling? -

🧩 Composing is hard, complexity is easy -

🌱📈 Simplicity scales -

📈 Why GUI development tools don't scale -

⚖️ Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling -

👌 Struggling to scale your IoT system? Simplify your data. -

📈 Scaling -

Two ways to scale -

#screencast

👥 Alternatives to meetings -

#scripting

✨ Anyone can write scripts now -

#security

🛡️ How to get to secure and reliable -

#self-hosting

🛠️ Another reason to self-host Gitea -

#server

No Golden Machines -

#service

👤 Confusion about when we are the customer -

#shell

envsetup.sh -- a very useful automation technique -

#shipping

Thinking, Designing, Developing, Engineering ... -

What is the #1 purpose of YOUR Platform? -

#short

The long game -

#silos

🌽 What is the easiest way to avoid silos? -

#simplicity

🧩 Composing is hard, complexity is easy -

🎼 Compose software like music -

🌱📈 Simplicity scales -

👌 Struggling to scale your IoT system? Simplify your data. -

🌅 Simple stuff is boring -

🪙 Complexity and Simplicity -- two sides of the same coin -

⬆️ What is improvement? -

🕊️ Simple -- from whose perspective? -

🕊️ Simple to maintain vs simple to implement -

🕊️ Simple to use vs simple to implement -

What can kids teach us about platforms? -

The easiest path to reliability ... -

Where do reliability/stability problems typically come from? -

Complex Systems, Simple Platforms -

Simplicity -

#size

The smaller you are, the more import YOUR Platform is -

#soc

Advanced technology and small players -

#software

🧩 Composing is hard, complexity is easy -

#start

Easy to start vs. easy to finish -

#steps

What are the first steps? -

#steve-jobs

🧑‍💻 How can we increase developer productivity? -

Creativity -

#strategy

📈 What do we mean by scaling? -

#symptom

Lessons from a 1-year old dog -

Solving problems or symptoms? -

#system

🔗 Integration, not isolation -

#systems

🔄 Closed-loop engineering -

🔄 Look for closed loops -

🌽 What is the easiest way to avoid silos? -

👤 It's all about the people -

Goals vs. Systems -

Platforms are for building systems -

#team

🎧 Effective communication (Audio) -

🤝 Modern product development is a collaborative endeavor -

👷 Make less work for others, part 2 -

🛤️ Two paths -

👥 Your team as the customer -

Personal vs. collaborative documentation -

What happens when someone else tries to use your work? -

#technical debt

💸 Technical debt -

🛤️ Two paths -

Improve development efficiency, reduce technical debt -

The cost of updating dependencies, or not -

#technology

💰 What is the cheapest PDM tool out there? -

Easy to start vs. easy to finish -

Advanced technology and small players -

What is the purpose of technology? -

Where do reliability/stability problems typically come from? -

#test

✔️ Legacy code -

The Platform Test -

#testing

🔄 Flipping the playbook for AI coding -

➡️ Frontload the boring stuff -

🌿 A natural way to get more testing/automation -

✅ Guarantees -

#tests

How to help yourself? -

#time

A platform stuck in time -

#time-management

How to get the little things done? -

#tool

What is your most important tool? -

#tooling

🥣 The two ingredients for agility -

#tools

💰 What is the cheapest PDM tool out there? -

🤖 AI is the new compiler -

✨ Anyone can write scripts now -

✏️ Effective Communication (Sketching) -

🎨 Effective Communication (Drawing) -

📹 Effective Communication (Video) -

📸 Effective Communication (Images) -

🎧 Effective communication (Audio) -

📈 Why GUI development tools don't scale -

🛠️ The defining characteristic of a good workflow tool -

🛠️ The critical features of workflow tools -

🛠️ Selecting tools -

🛠️ Two classes of tools -

Use a headset optimized for calls -

No Golden Machines -

#transparency

The importance of small Git commits/pull-requests -

#trust

🤝🔍 Trust, but verify -

#truth

⚖️ Truth is discovered, not invented -

#update

✅ The problem with software -

🔄 The business model for updates -

The biggest benefit to frequent updates -

Isn't it risky to update your dependencies? -

What is the first thing you should implement? -

#upstream

Tracking upstream and why does it matter? -

#users

👥 Who are users? -

🕊️ Simple to use vs simple to implement -

#value

👤 Who is our "customer"? -

How does your product value increase after the initial sale? -

#verification

🤝🔍 Trust, but verify -

#video

📹 Effective Communication (Video) -

#vision

🔭 How to encourage vision? -

🧠🔭 The tension of experience and vision -

🧠🔭 Experience and Vision -

📊 Past performance ... -

What is the role of vision? -

#wealth

🌻 Downstream, things should be better -

#work

👷 Make less work for others, part 2 -

👷 Do we make more work for others or less? -

#workflow

💰 What is the cheapest PDM tool out there? -

📸 Effective Communication (Images) -

🤖 How I use Claude Code to help publish this blog -

👥 Alternatives to meetings -

🥣 The two ingredients for agility -

🛠️ Git* -- the new standard for workflow -

🛠️ The defining characteristic of a good workflow tool -

🛠️ The critical features of workflow tools -

How can you make your commercial source code customers happy? -

#writing

🚴 The power of movement -

✍️ Effective communication (Written) -

🤖 How I use Claude Code to help publish this blog -

100 daily emails -

#yagni

Abstractions and Platforms -

#yocto

Github and why does it matter? -

Tracking upstream and why does it matter? -

What makes a good Yocto BSP? -