because writing is clarifying - Subbu Allamaraju's Journal

17 Dec 2025

We are likely the last generation of developers to have an emotional attachment to the shape of our code. After letting ...

04 Dec 2025

These are exciting times to be a hands-on software developer. A decade ago, the excitement was about learning and adopti...

23 Nov 2025

The tech world has been experiencing a low-trust climate in recent years. Cynicism is the air. Widespread and repeated l...

26 Oct 2025

Once upon a time, our software was simple. All it took was a database, a user interface, and some glue code between them...

04 Aug 2025

It’s not worth rehashing that the tech landscape is undergoing a tectonic shift. Thirty minutes on LinkedIn can fe...

12 Jul 2025

Excellence is unlikely to happen if you don’t address the hard problems early in project execution. Habits for cultivati...

02 Jul 2025

Language is a loose construct for exchanging ideas, though it is the best tool we have. We try to distill a complex mix ...

14 Jun 2025

Diagnosis is often an overlooked step in goal setting, project planning, and execution. I have come across many projects...

18 Mar 2025

Yassine Kachchani recently interviewed me for his Exec Engineering newsletter. I am crossposting the interview on this s...

03 Jan 2025

I set a goal for January 2nd: create a Q&A bot to answer questions based on all the articles I wrote over the years ...