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View from underneath an inflating hot air balloon. The balloon has a rainbow pattern, and you can see a jet of flame coming out of the burner.

Why does work expand?

| Ever heard that “work expands to fill the time available”? Let's dig into why that’s only half the story — and what Parkinson’s Law gets wrong about how real work (and real people) actually operate.

On Zombies

| Writing a game in Javascript, HTML, and CSS as "vanilla" as I can manage.

Process Matters

| Writing notes by hand and rephrasing them in my own words is more valuable to me than relying on AI tools.

Thudfactor link roundup #1

| In this first link roundup, I share posts about metrics, AI psychology, and accessibility that caught my attention this last week.

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I Like JavaScript

| Regardless of what you think about it, JavaScript is a crucial part of the platform.

A branch of a shrub with a newly sprouted green leaf; the leaf and the branch are encased in ice

Why scrum fails

| Scrum seems like it works. I've seen it work; it's working for me now. Why do so many people think it's a failure?

Sunset over a large, mostly still body of water. The sun is already below the horzion, so the water is dark and the sky is fairly dark as well. There are a few wisps of clouds near the horizon that lighten the burt orange of the sky there.

A Fairy-Tale about Capitalism

| A story that illustrates what we were all told about capitalism, and most of us still feel to be true. Even if we know better.