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Mar 24
The 24-Inch Migration: Onboarding a 5-Year-Old to New Hardware
Learn how to apply software engineering principlesโlike look-ahead buffers and integration testingโto manage complex hardware migrations. Discover howโฆ
Mar 17
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Lying Tests and the Silent Swallow: Hardening Legacy Java
Is your CI/CD pipeline telling you the truth, or is it just telling you what you want to hear?
Mar 17
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Refactoring the Workshop
Rebuilding a bike maintenance stack from scratchโfrom professional roots to family essentials in Spain.
Mar 5
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Environment Emulation: Using Docker as a Time Machine for Legacy Java
What do you do when the code is right, but the world has changed too much to run it? Youโve successfully compiled a 20-year-old Java app, but the momentโฆ
Mar 3
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February 2026
The Strangler Build: Modernizing Java Tooling with Gradle 7.6
What do you do when your build system is the primary blocker to your modernization? You want to introduce automated testing and containerizedโฆ
Feb 17
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The Golden Bridge: Why Java 8 is the Ultimate Tool for Legacy Refactoring
When does โlatest and greatestโ become a liability? Imagine youโve just inherited a โBig Ball of Mudโ: a 20-year-old repository built with Ant, runningโฆ
Feb 16
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January 2026
Does Delegating to AI Mean We Can Finally Be Lazy Managers?
I tested Google's Jules agent with two approaches: a vague "lazy" prompt and a detailed technical spec. The results reveal a paradox about AI autonomyโฆ
Jan 20
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December 2025
Can We Skip TDD with Modern AI? A Context Experiment
The Hook
Dec 9, 2025
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November 2025
Does "Extract Method" Actually Hurt Your Readability?
Weโve all been there.
Nov 25, 2025
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Does AI Need Clear Goals? My Experiment in Turning Vague Ideas into Code
Weโre all told the same thing: AI needs clear, specific, and context-rich prompts to be useful.
Nov 11, 2025
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October 2025
What If the โCleanestโ Code Is the Wrong Solution?
In our continuing experiment with Trio Programmingโtwo engineers and an AIโwe decided to level up.
Oct 28, 2025
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