Task Paralysis?
23 Nov 2025Most productivity tools work the same way. They rely on capturing everything into one big Master List, sorting and labeling it, and hoping that structure will lead to execution.
Read more...Rework, Cognitive Load, and Knowledge Loss
19 Nov 2025In the first post, I introduced nine wastes that hide in software teams. In the second, we looked at the flow killers that destroy momentum. In the third, we covered the product wastes that derail your work.
Read more...Are You Building the Wrong Thing?
11 Nov 2025In the first post, I introduced nine wastes that hide in software teams. In the second, we looked at the flow killers that destroy momentum.
Read more...Wastes That Kill Your Flow
03 Nov 2025In my last post, I introduced nine wastes that hide in software teams.
Read more...Nine Wastes Hiding in Your Software Team
24 Oct 2025Measuring the productivity of software engineering teams is notoriously difficult and can often backfire. However, we don’t need complex metrics to recognise when time and effort are being wasted.
Read more...Blazing fast search
06 Sep 2025When I started building medi, my command-line notes manager, the goal was a fast, local-first workflow. But how fast is fast? Could it stay fast at scale? With a database of thousands of notes, would search grind to a halt?
Bringing tbdflow to the IDE
02 Sep 2025I love the terminal, but yes, most developers live in their IDE. It’s their primary workspace, and modern IDEs like IntelliJ have great, integrated Git support. You can stage, commit, push, and manage branches without ever touching the command line.
Read more...tbdflow ❤️ monorepo
28 Aug 2025Monorepos are a powerful strategy for managing code. By keeping all your projects in a single repository, you get a single source of truth, simplified dependency management, and easier cross-team collaboration. As influencial thought-leaders and others in the DevOps space have pointed out, monorepos are a natural fit for Trunk-Based Development (TBD) because they both revolve around a single, shared mainline of code.
Read more...Looking under the hood with a dry-run
23 Aug 2025One of the most valuable pieces of feedback I’ve had about tbdflow came as a simple question:
CHANGELOG.md
20 Aug 2025I’ve seen some teams and projects having really nice CHANGELOG.md and release notes but knowing from experience, writing release notes by hand is a pain. Scrolling through git log, guessing which commits count as features or fixes, and hoping you don’t forget something important isn’t exactly fun.