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7 Jun

Maria Irimie 3 min read

A few weeks ago, I asked my younger brother a very random question: “What would the consequences be of putting higher performance shock absorbers in my car?” Question One He led me down an interesting conversation about the costs, the considerations, the damage it could do to my very simple Mazda CX-30. We chatted about […] The post My Encyclopedia…

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1 Jun

Kealy Williams 4 min read

A few months ago I watched a sprint board do something I’d never quite seen before. Story cards weren’t stacking up in In Progress. They were stacking up in Ready for Review. On every project I’d ever worked on, the bottleneck was writing the code. Suddenly, on this project, it wasn’t. So how’d we get […] The post When Code…

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3 May

Michael Hale Jr. 3 min read

Detroit has always been a city of systems. Long before people talked about “platforms” or “digital transformation,” Detroit was solving a harder problem: how to coordinate thousands of moving parts with precision. Assembly lines, supplier networks, logistics routes—these weren’t just operations. They were carefully designed systems, built to be reliable under pressure. If one part […] The post Software Is…

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27 Mar

Dylan Goings 6 min read

As with most peers I know, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it actually means to be a software developer right now. There seem to be two predominant takes floating around the industry right now about AI and the future of dev work. The first is that software developers are going the way of […] The post AI and…

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21 Mar

Laura Corona 6 min read

photo by ajay_suresh In a previous post, I wrote about building my support team early during my second pregnancy. I talked about doulas, night nurses, and the support network I wished I had the first time around. Planning my return to work is another part of that same preparation. Specifically, returning to work while pumping. […] The post Here’s How…

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