There’s a specific use of the term “non-technical,” and that’s applying it to oneself, as a cop-out. If you’re a leader in tech, you don’t get to do that.

“I can’t figure out how upload filters should work, but I’m not a technical person — surely someone who is can sort it out!”

That is a misconception. I’ll be happy to explain, requiring — I promise! — no technical understanding of what an upload filter is, or how it works.

Next Tuesday, the European Parliament is due to vote on something that will impact your life. Yes, yours.

I very much prefer working from home to working from an office. But with little kids in the house, that’s a nontrivial endeavor.

Scrum is irrational, impractical, and outright dangerous for software development. It is time to stop considering it a viable method for building software.