All Posts (62)
2026
AI vs. Open Source, Part 1: The Empty Grant
AI is dismantling the legal scaffolding that gives open source its freedom and its enforcement. Every open source license is a conditional grant of copyright. AI-generated code is not copyrightable. The grant is empty.
5 min
2025
The grand flattening: AI Slop is just the next step
8 min
Defense in Depth vs Locality of Behavior
2 min
When Backward Compatibility Can Rescue a Leaky Abstraction
6 min
Const Refs vs. Raw Pointers: Fixing Shared Pointer Reads
3 min
Changing your Jekyll theme without losing your mind (or your content!)
7 min
Cyclomatic Complexity: How Low Can You Go?
3 min
TDD for Bug Fixes
3 min
Let Sleeping Engineers Lie: Why Your Alerts Should Match Your SEVs
2 min
2022
The Law of Demeter and unit tests
4 min
'Privatize' your classes for better unit testing
3 min
Tests should be isolated from each other; not coupled
7 min
In unit tests, I favor Detroit over London
5 min
Defining unit tests: two schools of thought
3 min
Primary attributes of unit test suites and their tradeoffs
6 min
The big WHY about unit tests
4 min
Unit test the brains and not the nerves
3 min
Mocks, Stubs, and how to use them
6 min
DRY unit tests are bad... mkay
9 min
Do not index on test coverage metrics
4 min
Beware of using patch.object to test your Python code
2 min
When I first realized my privilege
4 min
