Sitemap - 2025 - A Software Enchiridion
Flow Is a Property of the System and the Individual
Software Engineering is not the art of being right
Optimise the Silence, Optimise your Thinking
The Librarian of Useful Silence
The Department of Perfect Answers & The Grammar of Small Powers
On Developer Platform Experiments
The Tailor of Unnecessary Commitments
A Golden Path No One Walks is a Golden Myth
The Map that Refused to Stay Still
When Command-and-Control Kills Creativity
The Feynman Principle of Restored Curiosity
On the Folly of Manufacturing Momentum Through Meetings
The Developer Who Lost the Thread
1578: A Short Story of Human Adaptation
The Starter at the End of the World
On the Inertia of Organisational Change
On AI-Augmented Apprenticeship
The Tao of Platform Architecture
The Moral Imagination of Platform Engineering
The Myth of the Perfect Architecture
The Mirror Factory (All Hallows’ Edition)
The Myth of Generational Divides
In Praise of Slow Software Engineering
On the Lessons We Still Haven’t Learned from The Mythical Man Month
The NeverEnding Project, 50th Anniversary Edition
The Improbable Adventures of the Developer Portal and Infinite GitOps
On Reading Code in the Age of AI-Augmented Coding
Developer Platform DevRel: Listen. Build. Learn. Make Developers Badass
You Cannot Outsource Understanding
Critique without Creation is Corrosion
Creativity Hides in Strange Places
In Praise of Idleness in the Age of AI Coding
Verification and Validation: Trusted vs. Loved Platforms
The Easiest Lift in Platform Engineering: Documentation
A Hidden Cost of Conversation Closing
Read Code as if it Were Poetry, Write Code as if it Were Prose
Don’t Curse The Weather, Explore & Prepare For It
Sunday Short Story: The Infinite Loop Debugger
The Coding Never Ends, but You Will
A Burden Within: The Debt of Imposter Syndrome
Platforms demonstrate value through Intended and Surprising Impact
Plantin’s Platform: The Expected and Surprising impacts of a successful Platform, Part 1
Software Engineering Enchiridion: Omnibus Edition. 1
A Platform is a Product "in Process"; it's the Impact that Sets It Apart
When a Fire Goes Out: On Overwhelm and Burnout
Celebrating your Software Platform Builders
Too Big to Work – Building Effective Internal Developer Platform Abstractions
Curate Platform Habitability for Humans and AI Agents
Before Tech, Explore Context & Impact
Help your Platform support the Development Habitat with CUPID
Build Abstractions, Not Compression
Maxims, Principles, and Properties: Knowing the Difference in this Software Enchiridion
Safety in Discomfort: On Psychological Safety
The Myth of the Green Field: Every Platform Has Roots
Make Reality Your Spec: Tests Before Opinion
Craft Platform Engineering Change "Baby Steps"
Your Job, Your Work, Is Not Your Life
Why an Enchiridion on Software Development?
Write Yesterday-You Code: Clarity Over Cleverness
Control What You Can, Ignore What You Can’t
Agents & Internal Developer Platforms