2026-08-12
Michael Lopp argues that most workplace communication falls into three types — the update, the vent, and the disaster — and that organizations get in trouble when they can't tell which one they're hearing.
Patrick McKenzie argues that engineers should understand their careers in business terms — negotiation, pricing, and how non-technical people perceive value — rather than as a craft measured by technical skill alone.
Dan McKinley argues that engineering teams have only a small budget of novelty they can safely introduce, so most technology choices should be boring and well-understood, with that budget spent on the few problems that actually need it.
The Zig project argues that a language should get out of the way of the programmer through explicit control flow, no hidden allocations, and compile-time execution via comptime, rather than adding hidden runtime behavior.
Focus on debugging your application rather than debugging your programming language knowledge.