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Your documentation is a model, not a wiki page
Why structured architecture docs are the most undervalued asset in engineering, and how AI is about to change that
Your AsyncAPI specs deserve more than a repo. Give them discoverability.
Most teams write specs and forget them. Here's how to turn them into a catalog your whole org can browse, search, and understand.
Domain-Driven Documentation: Documentation was never the problem
Why context, not content, is the real challenge for modern documentation
I think I just hired...... a robot?
I Installed OpenClaw 48 Hours Ago… and It’s starting to feel like a teammate
Don't sell to developers. Focus on value, advocacy and creating internal champions
My thoughts and lessons on selling to developers; and why a focus on value, advocacy and internal champions can help.
Can you get more value from your EventStorming workshops? I think you can....
So you finished an EventStorming session, you have 100s of post-it notes. What's next? In this blog post I explore an experiment of turning EventStorming into EventCatalog using MCP.
Before You Publish Your First Event… Stop.
The hidden trap in event-driven architecture that few talk about
Do we need another diagram tool? Maybe not… But I think we can do better
My thoughts on the pitfalls of diagram tools today, the value lost, and why we can do better.
How to Stop Your Event-Driven Architecture from Turning Into Chaos
The three most common pitfalls organizations fall into when building event-driven architectures.
Event-driven architecture is a shit show - It’s time to fix it
Reflecting on event-driven architecture, it's problems and what needs to change.
From side project to full time; 12 months of open source
Some lessons learnt turning my open source side project into a full time job.
10 Lessons from 6 Months of Bootstrapping My Open Source Startup
Here are 10 lessons I have learnt so far whilst bootstrapping my open source project into a sustainable product.
Can a product release too often? Yes, I think it can.
As a bootstrapped developer it's easy to keep caught up just shipping features, especially as we lean into AI tools to assist us, but going too fast might be a problem?
Why is your product Open Source?
Open source business models are hard. A question I often get it why is it even open source? Here are some of my thoughts on that, and reasons why