
Inheriting a Mess: The Technical TurnaroundStrategy
A pragmatic 90-day framework for assessing reality, choosing the right battles, and restoring delivery momentum when you inherit a fragile system.

A pragmatic 90-day framework for assessing reality, choosing the right battles, and restoring delivery momentum when you inherit a fragile system.

At early stage, most technical decisions happen before you have the data. The framework that matters is not how to be right. It is how to be wrong cheaply.

At seed stage, you cannot afford a CTO, a VP Eng, and a Head of Product. You need one multidisciplinary builder. The industry calls this a CTPO.

AI makes code cheaper, not outcomes easier. The real change is structural: how engineering teams make decisions, set standards, and define seniority.

The problem is not that engineers go off-plan. The problem is when the real plan is invisible. Here is how to close that gap.

The gap between engineering and the executive team is a translation gap, not a knowledge gap. Leaders who close it earn trust and resources.

What it's like to build a new product category from zero: no reference implementations, no proven models, just reasoning from the problem outward.

Stop counting features, start proving impact. Transform engineering teams from output-focused factories to outcome-driven organizations.

Technical debt isn''t the enemy—it''s momentum. Learn to treat debt as leverage, build a budget, and align engineering with business goals.

Scaling an engineering team from 5 to 50? Most teams hit three walls: communication, coordination, and culture. Here''s how to break through.

Transform your web experience with performance budgets. Actionable steps and tools to optimize without compromising features or productivity.

Open-source RemixJS and MDX website template. Modern tooling, excellent performance, and seamless content authoring for developers.

Transitioning from Angular 12 and GatsbyJS to Remix with Vite and PNPM. Lessons learned from a major framework migration to Vercel.

Create a custom color interpolator for precise control in data visualizations. Perfect for developers and data scientists.

Top tools and services for tech professionals in 2024. Essential software for development, design, productivity, and workflow optimization.

This list of 196 questions can assist with the initial discovery phase and align the expectations of all stakeholders when building a data-table.


Drastically reduce PNG size by replacing transparent colors.

How to seed the iOS simulator with thousands of contacts to stress-test your hybrid app.

Learn how to create a small vim function that will take you to a class or ID definition from HTML.

Create a visual timeline of your year with automatic pictures taken after each commit.


Learn how to dynamically generate a safe text color based on the background color with Sass.

A tutorial on how to correctly set up Amazon S3 to serve gZipped, static assets.
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