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#abstraction

📖 The definition of the word 'Platform' -

🧩 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 -

#adaptability

🌀 Complex systems are hard to predict -

#agile

🪞 The illusion of project meta-data -

🤔 Isn't this just agile? -

🚀 RDPD - Release Driven Product Development -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

🥣 The two ingredients for agility -

#AI

🔍 It is often more work to review something than to do it -

🔍 AI coding requires better inputs and robust verification -

✨ Impressive is not always effective -

🥄 The beauty of human creativity -

🚀 Platforms are not just for developers -

🔄 Breaking the AI slop cycle -

📝 DDPD - Document Driven Product Development -

🛠️ The new Artisan Age -

💻 Local First Dev -

🧠 Context is everything -

💡 Reflections from AI-coding a 10,000 line app -

📚 Documentation never has to go out of date again -

🐛Kernighan's Law -

📝 Document "why" not "how" -

🔄 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

🔍 AI coding requires better inputs and robust verification -

✨ Impressive is not always effective -

📖 The definition of the word 'Platform' -

🔄 Breaking the AI slop cycle -

⏳ The "long-term" may be closer than you think... -

🎯 A single source of truth -

💻 Local First Dev -

💡 Reflections from AI-coding a 10,000 line app -

🔗 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

☝️ What do we mean by "First"? -

🟢 What is in the Big Green Button? -

🟢 The Big Green Button -

🔮 Can we predict product development schedules? -

🚀 How to make releases painless -

🎬 Is a Demo the same as a Release? -

⏱️ How do you find time for higher value tasks? -

🤝 A release is what unifies Engineering and Business -

🔄 Platform Thinking is a habit -

📦 CDPD - Container Driven Product Development -

🚀 RDPD - Release Driven Product Development -

🧪 TDPD - Test Driven Product Development -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

🤝 The benefits of sharing -

🛠️ The new Artisan Age -

🔓 You should not be needed -

🚧 Three things that hinder product development -

⚖️ Technical debt compounds with you doing nothing -

🌀 Complex systems are hard to predict -

📊 Simple data formats + powerful tools scale -

📚 Documentation never has to go out of date again -

💰 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

⚖️ Reliability tradeoffs -

🏆 The entire story -

#BSP

🐙 Github and why does it matter? -

🔁 Tracking upstream and why does it matter? -

🔧 What makes a good Yocto BSP? -

#business

🔮 Can we predict product development schedules? -

🤝 A release is what unifies Engineering and Business -

🏆 What is the ultimate platform success? -

🏗️ The difference between Product and Platform -

🗂️ Git has an unfortunate name -

📈 What do we mean by scaling? -

⬆️ The business case for improvement -

#cad

➡️ Frontload the boring stuff -

#cd

🚀 How to make releases painless -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

🚀 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 make releases painless -

📦 CDPD - Container Driven Product Development -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

🔀 The Power of Git* workflows -

🙋 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

🔍 AI coding requires better inputs and robust verification -

🔄 Breaking the AI slop cycle -

🧠 Context is everything -

💡 Reflections from AI-coding a 10,000 line app -

📏 Less code is not the ultimate goal -

😊 Align the "happy path" in your code -

⚖️ Code is a liability, not an asset -

📚 Keep documentation close to the design/code -

🚴 The power of movement -

🤖 AI is the new compiler -

#collaboration

📦 CDPD - Container Driven Product Development -

📝 DDPD - Document Driven Product Development -

🔀 The Power of Git* workflows -

🔄 Three levels of workflow -

🎯 A single source of truth -

💻 Local First Dev -

🚧 Three things that hinder product development -

💰 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

✍️ Why writing is important -

💬 The importance of effective communication -

🧠 Context is everything -

📝 Document "why" not "how" -

🔄 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? -

#complexity

🧩 Why things fall apart at the end -

🔗 What defines reliability? -

🔍 It is often more work to review something than to do it -

✨ Impressive is not always effective -

⏳ The long-term compression timeline -

🤔 Isn't this just agile? -

⏳ The "long-term" may be closer than you think... -

💡 Reflections from AI-coding a 10,000 line app -

🌀 Complex systems are hard to predict -

#confidence

🟢 What is in the Big Green Button? -

🚢 What is the #1 problem in product development? -

🤝 A release is what unifies Engineering and Business -

📦 What is a release? -

🥣 The two ingredients for agility -

#consistency

📦 More definitions of a release -

📅 Dates in filenames -

🚀 Platforms vs Architecture Astronautics -

🏷️ How do you consistently name things? -

🔄 How can we be more consistent? -

🔄 Does consistency matter? -

#constraints

🥉 Good, fast, cheap - choose three -

✨ The Beauty of Constraints -

😱 The tragedy of no constraints -

#containers

🔀 The division between group and personal workflow -

📦 CDPD - Container Driven Product Development -

🔗 Integration, not isolation -

#context

🧠 Context is everything -

📝 Document "why" not "how" -

📁 The file dilemma -

📧 Effective email is either a pointer or notification -

#control

🌀 Complex systems are hard to predict -

📁 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

⚖️ Reliability, Cost, and Value -

💰 Ways to reduce your AI costs -

💰 What is the cheapest PDM tool out there? -

#coupling

🔗 Integration, not isolation -

🔗 Coupling -

#creativity

🥄 The beauty of human creativity -

✏️ Effective Communication (Sketching) -

Creativity -

#csv

🌱📈 Simplicity scales -

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

#culture

☝️ What do we mean by "First"? -

🔀 The division between group and personal workflow -

🍄 Mushroom Management -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

🏗️ The difference between Product and Platform -

🗂️ Git has an unfortunate name -

📧 Top vs bottom posting in email -

🎯 Rituals and Culture -

🌱 Culture -

#customer

🛠️ Do things that don't scale -

⚖️ Reliability, Cost, and Value -

🤝 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

🎯 A single source of truth -

📊 Simple data formats + powerful tools scale -

📁 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

⏳ The "long-term" may be closer than you think... -

⚖️ Technical debt compounds with you doing nothing -

🔄 Open loops -> technical debt -

✅ The problem with software -

#debugging

🔎 Seeing patterns -

#deep work

👷 The tension between solo and collaborative work -

#demo

🎬 Is a Demo the same as a Release? -

✨ Demos vs. Products -

#dependencies

🎲 Isn't it risky to update your dependencies? -

💸 The cost of updating dependencies, or not -

#deployment

☝️ What do we mean by "First"? -

🟢 What is in the Big Green Button? -

🟢 The Big Green Button -

🚀 How to make releases painless -

🎯 Who is Platform Thinking for? -

🚀 RDPD - Release Driven Product Development -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

🚀 Do you own your deployment? -

#design

✨ Impressive is not always effective -

📚 Without docs -

#details

🤏 Handling the small details -

#development

📖 When should you write the user manual? -

🎬 Is a Demo the same as a Release? -

🚀 How far do you take releases? -

🎯 Standards for internal vs external releases -

🚀 Shipping faster leads to predictability -

📦 CDPD - Container Driven Product Development -

🥉 Good, fast, cheap - choose three -

📝 DDPD - 🧪 TDPD - 🚀 RDPD -

📝 DDPD - Document Driven Product Development -

🚀 RDPD - Release Driven Product Development -

🧪 TDPD - Test Driven Product Development -

🔀 The Power of Git* workflows -

💻 Local First Dev -

💬 The importance of effective communication -

💡 Reflections from AI-coding a 10,000 line app -

🚧 Three things that hinder product development -

⚙️ Three aspects of product development -

#different

🥉 Good, fast, cheap - choose three -

🎆 Do something different -

#differentiation

🛠️ The new Artisan Age -

#discipline

☝️ What do we mean by "First"? -

🔍 AI coding requires better inputs and robust verification -

🏗️ The difference between Product and Platform -

🎉 200 posts -

#disipline

🤝 Keeping commitments -

#distributed

🔀 The Power of Git* workflows -

💻 Local First Dev -

🔗 Connected systems are different -

#documentation

📖 When should you write the user manual? -

🔍 It is often more work to review something than to do it -

🤝 A release is what unifies Engineering and Business -

🔍 AI coding requires better inputs and robust verification -

✨ Impressive is not always effective -

🔄 Platform Thinking is a habit -

🔄 Breaking the AI slop cycle -

📝 Tips for working with Markdown -

📝 DDPD - 🧪 TDPD - 🚀 RDPD -

📝 DDPD - Document Driven Product Development -

✍️ Why writing is important -

🤝 The benefits of sharing -

💡 Reflections from AI-coding a 10,000 line app -

🔓 You should not be needed -

📚 Without docs -

📚 Documentation never has to go out of date again -

📚 Keep documentation close to the design/code -

📝 Document "why" not "how" -

💰 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

⏳ The "long-term" may be closer than you think... -

🚀 RDPD - Release Driven Product Development -

🔗 Integration, not isolation -

#engineering

⚖️ Reliability, Cost, and Value -

📦 What do we release? -

🤝 A release is what unifies Engineering and Business -

📝 DDPD - 🧪 TDPD - 🚀 RDPD -

🧪 TDPD - Test Driven Product Development -

📚 Without docs -

#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

🟢 The Big Green Button -

🛠️ Do things that don't scale -

🔮 Can we predict product development schedules? -

📖 When should you write the user manual? -

🎬 Is a Demo the same as a Release? -

🔍 It is often more work to review something than to do it -

🤔 Isn't this just agile? -

🔄 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

🧩 Why things fall apart at the end -

🏁 Easy to start vs. easy to finish -

#flexibility

🔗 Platform thinking does not mean we don't use other platforms -

#focus

😊 Other ways to align the happy path -

🍳 Preparation - lessons from the kitchen -

#friction

🚀 How to make releases painless -

🎯 Who is Platform Thinking for? -

📦 CDPD - Container Driven Product Development -

🥣 The two ingredients for agility -

🏆 What is the #1 purpose of YOUR Platform? -

#future

📝 Document "why" not "how" -

What is the role of vision? -

🔮 Preparing for the future -

⏰ The present or the future? -

❓ But what if ... -

#git

🚀 Platforms are not just for developers -

🔀 The Power of Git* workflows -

💻 Local First Dev -

💰 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

🔄 The release circle -

🛠️ Do things that don't scale -

🏆 What is the ultimate platform success? -

✍️ Why writing is important -

📈 Scale vs. Value -

📈 What do we mean by scaling? -

#habits

☝️ What do we mean by "First"? -

🔄 Platform Thinking is a habit -

🔄 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

🔗 What defines reliability? -

🚀 RDPD - Release Driven Product Development -

🧪 TDPD - Test Driven Product Development -

♻️ 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

🥉 Good, fast, cheap - choose three -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

⚖️ Technical debt compounds with you doing nothing -

🐛Kernighan's Law -

🔄 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? -

#infrastructure

⚖️ Reliability tradeoffs -

🏆 What is the ultimate platform success? -

⚖️ Technical debt compounds with you doing nothing -

#innovation

🥄 The beauty of human creativity -

🔀 The division between group and personal workflow -

🛠️ The new Artisan Age -

⚙️ Three aspects of product development -

⏰ A platform stuck in time -

#integration

🧩 Why things fall apart at the end -

🔗 Platform thinking does not mean we don't use other platforms -

🎯 Who is Platform Thinking for? -

🤔 Isn't this just agile? -

🧪 TDPD - Test Driven Product Development -

🛠️ The new Artisan Age -

⚙️ Three aspects of product development -

📁 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 release circle -

🛠️ Do things that don't scale -

🚀 Shipping faster leads to predictability -

🤔 Isn't this just agile? -

✂️ YAGNI -

🚴 The power of movement -

🔄 AI and documentation - close the loop -

♻️ How to iterate quickly on hardware -

♻️ How to define an iteration? -

🔁 The importance of Git Commit/Push often -

#kids

What can kids teach us about platforms? -

#knowledge

✍️ Why writing is important -

🧠 Context is everything -

🔓 You should not be needed -

#law

📏 Goodhart's law -

#leadership

🍄 Mushroom Management -

#learning

🚀 Platforms are not just for developers -

✍️ Why writing is important -

💡 Reflections from AI-coding a 10,000 line app -

🔄 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

💡 Reflections from AI-coding a 10,000 line app -

⚖️ Code is a liability, not an asset -

🌱 OSS can decrease or increase your code liability -

#lifecycle

🔄 The release circle -

✨ Demos vs. Products -

🔄 Lifecycle management in dynamic systems -

#linux

⚖️ Reliability tradeoffs -

📁 The file dilemma -

🚀 How can Arch Linux get by without releases? -

#long

⏳ The long-term compression timeline -

🗜️ Long-term compression -

⏳ The "long-term" may be closer than you think... -

📈 What do we mean by scaling? -

🏁 The long game -

#maintainability

🔄 Breaking the AI slop cycle -

📏 Less code is not the ultimate goal -

#maintenance

⚖️ Reliability tradeoffs -

⚖️ Technical debt compounds with you doing nothing -

🐛Kernighan's Law -

🧩 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

🪞 The illusion of project meta-data -

🍄 Mushroom Management -

😊 Other ways to align the happy path -

📁 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

🪞 The illusion of project meta-data -

👋 Introduction -

#metrics

🪞 The illusion of project meta-data -

📏 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

🔗 Platform thinking does not mean we don't use other platforms -

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

#optimization

💰 Ways to reduce your AI costs -

⚖️ Architecture vs. Optimization -

#organic

🌱 Culture -

#organization

🔀 The division between group and personal workflow -

🍄 Mushroom Management -

🔄 Three levels of workflow -

📈 Scale vs. Value -

🔓 You should not be needed -

🔄 Open loops -> technical debt -

🔍 How to get the little things done? -

📌 Where do you put stuff? -

#oss

🚀 How far do you take releases? -

🤝 The benefits of sharing -

🗂️ 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

😊 Align the "happy path" in your code -

🔎 Seeing patterns -

#people

💬 The importance of effective communication -

👤 It's all about the people -

👥 Platform != People -

#personal

🔀 The division between group and personal workflow -

🎉 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 -

#planning

🚢 What is the #1 problem in product development? -

🔮 Can we predict product development schedules? -

📖 When should you write the user manual? -

🔄 Breaking the AI slop cycle -

#platform

⏱️ How do you find time for higher value tasks? -

🔗 Platform thinking does not mean we don't use other platforms -

📖 The definition of the word 'Platform' -

🔄 Platform Thinking is a habit -

🎯 Who is Platform Thinking for? -

⏳ The long-term compression timeline -

🗜️ Long-term compression -

🚀 Platforms are not just for developers -

🤔 Isn't this just agile? -

🏆 What is the ultimate platform success? -

🥉 Good, fast, cheap - choose three -

⏳ The "long-term" may be closer than you think... -

🛠️ The new Artisan Age -

🏗️ The difference between Product and Platform -

⚖️ Technical debt compounds with you doing nothing -

🌀 Complex systems are hard to predict -

💰 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

📦 CDPD - Container Driven Product Development -

🍳 Preparation - lessons from the kitchen -

#present

⏰ The present or the future? -

#proactive

😊 Other ways to align the happy path -

⚡ Are your processes proactive or reactive? -

#problem

🐶 Lessons from a 1-year old dog -

🔍 Solving problems or symptoms? -

#process

☝️ What do we mean by "First"? -

🟢 The Big Green Button -

🧩 Why things fall apart at the end -

🪞 The illusion of project meta-data -

🚢 What is the #1 problem in product development? -

🔮 Can we predict product development schedules? -

📖 When should you write the user manual? -

🎬 Is a Demo the same as a Release? -

🚀 Shipping faster - what are the stakes? -

🔍 It is often more work to review something than to do it -

🚀 How far do you take releases? -

🎯 Standards for internal vs external releases -

🚀 Shipping faster leads to predictability -

🔄 Platform Thinking is a habit -

🔄 Breaking the AI slop cycle -

🤔 Why > How > What -

🥉 Good, fast, cheap - choose three -

📝 DDPD - 🧪 TDPD - 🚀 RDPD -

📝 DDPD - Document Driven Product Development -

🚀 RDPD - Release Driven Product Development -

🧪 TDPD - Test Driven Product Development -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

🔄 Three levels of workflow -

🏗️ The difference between Product and Platform -

😊 Other ways to align the happy path -

🔓 You should not be needed -

📚 Without docs -

🌀 Complex systems are hard to predict -

🔄 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

🔄 The release circle -

🪞 The illusion of project meta-data -

🚢 What is the #1 problem in product development? -

🛠️ Do things that don't scale -

📖 When should you write the user manual? -

🚀 Shipping faster - what are the stakes? -

📦 What do we release? -

📦 What is a release? -

🔄 Platform Thinking is a habit -

🎯 Who is Platform Thinking for? -

⏳ The long-term compression timeline -

🗜️ Long-term compression -

🏆 What is the ultimate platform success? -

📝 DDPD - 🧪 TDPD - 🚀 RDPD -

📝 DDPD - Document Driven Product Development -

🚀 RDPD - Release Driven Product Development -

🧪 TDPD - Test Driven Product Development -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

🏗️ The difference between Product and Platform -

🚧 Three things that hinder product development -

⚙️ Three aspects of product development -

💰 What is the cheapest PDM tool out there? -

✨ Demos vs. Products -

#productivity

⏱️ How do you find time for higher value tasks? -

🚀 Platforms are not just for developers -

🔀 The division between group and personal workflow -

📝 Tips for working with Markdown -

🔀 The Power of Git* workflows -

✍️ Why writing is important -

🛠️ The new Artisan Age -

💻 Local First Dev -

💬 The importance of effective communication -

💡 Reflections from AI-coding a 10,000 line app -

😊 Other ways to align the happy path -

📚 Documentation never has to go out of date again -

📚 Keep documentation close to the design/code -

🔄 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

📏 Less code is not the ultimate goal -

😊 Align the "happy path" in your code -

⚖️ Code is a liability, not an asset -

✂️ YAGNI -

🧩 Composing is hard, complexity is easy -

🔄 Flipping the playbook for AI coding -

🧑‍💻 The first step in AI coding -

🧑‍💻 Will AI cause coding to disappear? -

#quality

🟢 The Big Green Button -

🪞 The illusion of project meta-data -

📦 More definitions of a release -

🎬 Is a Demo the same as a Release? -

🔗 What defines reliability? -

🚀 Shipping faster - what are the stakes? -

🔍 It is often more work to review something than to do it -

🚀 How far do you take releases? -

🎯 Standards for internal vs external releases -

🤝 A release is what unifies Engineering and Business -

🔍 AI coding requires better inputs and robust verification -

🥄 The beauty of human creativity -

🔄 Breaking the AI slop cycle -

🥉 Good, fast, cheap - choose three -

📝 DDPD - 🧪 TDPD - 🚀 RDPD -

🧪 TDPD - Test Driven Product Development -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

#readability

📏 Less code is not the ultimate goal -

😊 Align the "happy path" in your code -

#reflection

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

🪞 Platform reflection -

#relationships

👥 Meetings and human relationships -

#release

☝️ What do we mean by "First"? -

🟢 What is in the Big Green Button? -

🟢 The Big Green Button -

🔄 The release circle -

🧩 Why things fall apart at the end -

📦 More definitions of a release -

🛠️ Do things that don't scale -

🔮 Can we predict product development schedules? -

🚀 How to make releases painless -

📖 When should you write the user manual? -

🎬 Is a Demo the same as a Release? -

🚀 Shipping faster - what are the stakes? -

🚀 How far do you take releases? -

🎯 Standards for internal vs external releases -

📦 What do we release? -

🤝 A release is what unifies Engineering and Business -

📦 What is a release? -

🚀 Shipping faster leads to predictability -

📝 DDPD - 🧪 TDPD - 🚀 RDPD -

🚀 RDPD - Release Driven Product Development -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

🔄 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

📦 More definitions of a release -

⚖️ Reliability tradeoffs -

⚖️ Reliability, Cost, and Value -

🔗 What defines reliability? -

✨ The easiest path to reliability ... -

🔍 Where do reliability/stability problems typically come from? -

#reliablility

🛡️ How to get to secure and reliable -

#reuse

♾️ It's about not starting over every time -

#risk

🧩 Why things fall apart at the end -

🚢 What is the #1 problem in product development? -

⚖️ Reliability tradeoffs -

🔗 What defines reliability? -

⚖️ Technical debt compounds with you doing nothing -

🎲 Isn't it risky to update your dependencies? -

#rituals

🎯 Rituals and Culture -

#satisfaction

😊 Joy -

#scalability

🤔 Isn't this just agile? -

🔀 The division between group and personal workflow -

💻 Local First Dev -

🔓 You should not be needed -

📁 The file dilemma -

#scaling

📈 Scale vs. Value -

📊 Simple data formats + powerful tools scale -

📈 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

🛠️ The new Artisan Age -

✨ Anyone can write scripts now -

#security

🛡️ How to get to secure and reliable -

#self-hosting

🛠️ Another reason to self-host Gitea -

#server

⚖️ Reliability tradeoffs -

🚫 No Golden Machines -

#service

👤 Confusion about when we are the customer -

#sharing

🤝 The benefits of sharing -

#shell

🔧 envsetup.sh -- a very useful automation technique -

#shipping

☝️ What do we mean by "First"? -

🟢 The Big Green Button -

🔄 The release circle -

🚢 What is the #1 problem in product development? -

🔮 Can we predict product development schedules? -

⏱️ How do you find time for higher value tasks? -

🚀 Shipping faster - what are the stakes? -

📦 What do we release? -

📦 What is a release? -

🚀 Shipping faster leads to predictability -

🗜️ Long-term compression -

💭 Thinking, Designing, Developing, Engineering ... -

🏆 What is the #1 purpose of YOUR Platform? -

#short

🗜️ Long-term compression -

⏳ The "long-term" may be closer than you think... -

🏁 The long game -

#silos

🌽 What is the easiest way to avoid silos? -

#simplicity

✨ Impressive is not always effective -

🤔 Why > How > What -

💡 Reflections from AI-coding a 10,000 line app -

📏 Less code is not the ultimate goal -

😊 Align the "happy path" in your code -

⚖️ Code is a liability, not an asset -

✂️ YAGNI -

🐛Kernighan's Law -

📊 Simple data formats + powerful tools scale -

🧩 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

🔗 What defines reliability? -

🤔 Isn't this just agile? -

⚖️ Technical debt compounds with you doing nothing -

✂️ YAGNI -

🧩 Composing is hard, complexity is easy -

#standards

🚀 How far do you take releases? -

🎯 Standards for internal vs external releases -

🎯 A single source of truth -

#start

🛠️ Do things that don't scale -

🏁 Easy to start vs. easy to finish -

#steps

👣 What are the first steps? -

#steve-jobs

🧑‍💻 How can we increase developer productivity? -

Creativity -

#strategy

🔄 The release circle -

🔗 Platform thinking does not mean we don't use other platforms -

⏳ The long-term compression timeline -

🏆 What is the ultimate platform success? -

🤔 Why > How > What -

⏳ The "long-term" may be closer than you think... -

🚀 RDPD - Release Driven Product Development -

🏗️ The difference between Product and Platform -

⚙️ Three aspects of product development -

📈 What do we mean by scaling? -

#symptom

🐶 Lessons from a 1-year old dog -

🔍 Solving problems or symptoms? -

#system

🔗 Integration, not isolation -

#systems

⏳ The "long-term" may be closer than you think... -

📈 Scale vs. Value -

🌀 Complex systems are hard to predict -

🔄 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

🚀 Shipping faster - what are the stakes? -

🔀 The division between group and personal workflow -

📦 CDPD - Container Driven Product Development -

🔄 Three levels of workflow -

🎯 A single source of truth -

💬 The importance of effective communication -

🔓 You should not be needed -

🎧 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

🧩 Why things fall apart at the end -

✨ Impressive is not always effective -

⏳ The "long-term" may be closer than you think... -

📝 DDPD - 🧪 TDPD - 🚀 RDPD -

📏 Less code is not the ultimate goal -

⚖️ Technical debt compounds with you doing nothing -

⚖️ Code is a liability, not an asset -

💸 Technical debt -

🛤️ Two paths -

⚡ Improve development efficiency, reduce technical debt -

💸 The cost of updating dependencies, or not -

#technology

🚧 Three things that hinder product development -

⚙️ Three aspects of product development -

💰 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

🧪 TDPD - Test Driven Product Development -

✔️ Legacy code -

✅ The Platform Test -

#testing

🟢 What is in the Big Green Button? -

🔗 What defines reliability? -

🔍 It is often more work to review something than to do it -

🎯 Standards for internal vs external releases -

🤝 A release is what unifies Engineering and Business -

🔍 AI coding requires better inputs and robust verification -

🔄 Platform Thinking is a habit -

🎯 Who is Platform Thinking for? -

📝 DDPD - 🧪 TDPD - 🚀 RDPD -

🧪 TDPD - Test Driven Product Development -

💡 Reflections from AI-coding a 10,000 line app -

😊 Other ways to align the happy path -

🔄 Flipping the playbook for AI coding -

➡️ Frontload the boring stuff -

🌿 A natural way to get more testing/automation -

✅ Guarantees -

#tests

🙋 How to help yourself? -

#thinking

🥄 The beauty of human creativity -

📖 The definition of the word 'Platform' -

🎯 Who is Platform Thinking for? -

✍️ Why writing is important -

#time

⏳ The "long-term" may be closer than you think... -

⏰ A platform stuck in time -

#time-management

⏱️ How do you find time for higher value tasks? -

🔍 How to get the little things done? -

#tool

🧠 Context is everything -

🔧 What is your most important tool? -

#tooling

🚀 How to make releases painless -

🔗 Platform thinking does not mean we don't use other platforms -

🚀 Platforms are not just for developers -

📦 CDPD - Container Driven Product Development -

💻 Local First Dev -

🥣 The two ingredients for agility -

#tools

🪞 The illusion of project meta-data -

🔀 The division between group and personal workflow -

📝 Tips for working with Markdown -

🔀 The Power of Git* workflows -

🤝 The benefits of sharing -

🛠️ The new Artisan Age -

🏗️ The difference between Product and Platform -

💡 Reflections from AI-coding a 10,000 line app -

📊 Simple data formats + powerful tools scale -

📚 Keep documentation close to the design/code -

💰 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

🍄 Mushroom Management -

🔓 You should not be needed -

🔍 The importance of small Git commits/pull-requests -

#trust

🤝🔍 Trust, but verify -

#truth

🪞 The illusion of project meta-data -

⚖️ 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

🛠️ Do things that don't scale -

📖 When should you write the user manual? -

📝 DDPD - Document Driven Product Development -

👥 Who are users? -

🕊️ Simple to use vs simple to implement -

#value

📦 More definitions of a release -

🎬 Is a Demo the same as a Release? -

⏱️ How do you find time for higher value tasks? -

⚖️ Reliability, Cost, and Value -

📦 What do we release? -

🤝 A release is what unifies Engineering and Business -

🥄 The beauty of human creativity -

🥉 Good, fast, cheap - choose three -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

📈 Scale vs. Value -

👤 Who is our "customer"? -

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

#verification

🔗 What defines reliability? -

🔍 AI coding requires better inputs and robust 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 -

#why

✨ Impressive is not always effective -

📚 Without docs -

📝 Document "why" not "how" -

#work

👷 Make less work for others, part 2 -

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

#workflow

🚀 How to make releases painless -

🔍 AI coding requires better inputs and robust verification -

🚀 Platforms are not just for developers -

🔀 The division between group and personal workflow -

📦 CDPD - Container Driven Product Development -

📝 Tips for working with Markdown -

📝 DDPD - Document Driven Product Development -

🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value -

🔀 The Power of Git* workflows -

🔄 Three levels of workflow -

🤝 The benefits of sharing -

🏗️ The difference between Product and Platform -

💻 Local First Dev -

📊 Simple data formats + powerful tools scale -

📚 Documentation never has to go out of date again -

📚 Keep documentation close to the design/code -

💰 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

✍️ Why writing is important -

🚴 The power of movement -

✍️ Effective communication (Written) -

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

🎆 100 daily emails -

#yagni

⚖️ Code is a liability, not an asset -

✂️ YAGNI -

🧪 Abstractions and Platforms -

#yocto

🐙 Github and why does it matter? -

🔁 Tracking upstream and why does it matter? -

🔧 What makes a good Yocto BSP? -