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2026/01/05 — Software Acceleration and Desynchronization
2025/09/20 — Ongoing Tradeoffs, and Incidents as Landmarks
2025/06/09 — The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
2025/03/07 — AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?
2024/11/18 — Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums
2024/10/03 — Carrots, sticks, and making things worse
2024/09/02 — My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool
2024/05/30 — The Review Is the Action Item
2024/03/19 — A Commentary on Defining Observability
2024/02/07 — A Distributed Systems Reading List
2024/01/26 — Counting Forest Fires
2023/12/21 — Negotiable Abstractions
2023/06/20 — Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
2023/01/01 — A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed
2022/12/15 — The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
2022/11/23 — Hiding Theory in Practice
2022/11/01 — The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents
2022/07/09 — My favorite Erlang Container
2022/04/13 — Errors are constructed, not discovered
2021/12/22 — Plato's Dashboards
2021/05/24 — You've got to upgrade Rebar3
2021/03/19 — Surfacing Required Knowledge
2020/12/27 — Home Alone: a Post-Incident Review
2020/11/27 — Interval Tree Clocks
2020/10/20 — You Reap What You Code
2020/09/24 — A Pipeline Made of Airbags
2020/06/28 — Inclusiveness in Language for Outsiders Looking In
2020/05/01 — Complexity Has to Live Somewhere
2020/04/21 — Coding for Fun
2019/08/24 — Clever Functional Design
2019/07/08 — Ten Years of Erlang
2019/04/20 — Goodbye Joe
2019/01/17 — Operable Software
2019/01/09 — Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir
2018/11/27 — Erlang/OTP 21's new logger
2018/04/05 — The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Unexpected
2017/12/26 — Advent Of Code 2017
2017/04/21 — Tout est Terrible
2016/11/24 — Handling Overload
2016/07/07 — On Technical Debt: Shoveling forward
2016/06/12 — Property-Based Testing Basics
2016/02/08 — The Zen of Erlang
2016/01/05 — rebar3 shell
2015/10/11 — The Little Printf
2015/04/21 — Lessons Learned while Working on Large-Scale Server Software
2015/01/15 — Awk in 20 Minutes
2014/11/19 — Queues Don't Fix Overload
2014/07/02 — Vim and Composability
2013/12/02 — It's About the Guarantees
2013/11/07 — Troubleshooting Down the Logplex Rabbit Hole
2013/08/15 — Beating the CAP Theorem Checklist
2013/07/10 — My Male-Centric View of the World
2013/04/03 — Don't be a Jerk: Write Documentation
2013/02/08 — REPL? A bit more (and less) than that
2012/11/19 — Simhashing (hopefully) made simple
2012/09/28 — Code Janitor: nobody's dream, everyone's job (and how Erlang can help)
2012/09/03 — Poll Results: Erlang & Maintenance
2012/06/29 — Generic Piece Of Technology
2012/05/04 — Rebar Releases and Being Wrong
2012/04/04 — RTB: Where Erlang BLOOMs
2012/01/10 — Obfuscation
2011/09/26 — Will the real Unicode wrangler please stand up?
2011/07/12 — Erlang's Tail Recursion is Not a Silver Bullet
2011/06/16 — Dr. Dj.
2011/06/10 — YOU WILL REGRET THIS
2011/03/31 — On the Use of the Process Dictionary in Erlang
2011/01/04 — An Open Letter to the Erlang Beginner (or Onlooker)
2010/10/04 — Surely they'd fix it
2010/08/25 — Keep Your ORM Out of my Controller
2010/08/12 — Yet Another Article on Zippers
2010/07/26 — Learn You Some Erlang, a Year in
2010/07/22 — On Erlang's Syntax
2010/07/13 — Hello, World