Topic: software-engineering

Articles about "software-engineering".

Published:Jun 10, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM

The bug is not the bug

Whoever defines the bug controls the investigation. The first plausible explanation is a trap.

Published:Jun 7, 2026 |  at 10:00 AM

The correction is the problem

TDD biases toward testable code. Code review biases toward reviewer taste. Every fix introduces its own distortions.

Published:Dec 22, 2025 |  at 10:00 AM

What GitHub really sells

After stripping GitHub down to SSH and a bare repository, the product becomes clearer: GitHub sells the collaboration system around Git.

Published:Nov 20, 2025 |  at 11:15 AM

Pull requests are not Git

Git gives us branches, diffs, patches, and merges. A pull request is the collaboration object GitHub built around them.

Published:Sep 18, 2025 |  at 04:20 PM

The server gets a vote

Server-side hooks turn a dumb Git remote into something that can enforce policy before history changes.