<![CDATA[Stories by Heikki Hellgren on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@drodil?source=rss-9b257ecfcf10------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*xUwJHOpcYg99LA2X7nZTLw.jpeg Stories by Heikki Hellgren on Medium https://medium.com/@drodil?source=rss-9b257ecfcf10------2 Medium Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:46:57 GMT <![CDATA[We Are Building a Technical Debt Bubble]]>

AI makes us faster at borrowing against the future.

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Cognitive offloading has always been part of how humans work. But not all offloading is equal.

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]]> https://drodil.medium.com/i-worry-i-am-getting-dumber-by-using-ai-ec9f21c22f8a?source=rss-9b257ecfcf10------2 https://medium.com/p/ec9f21c22f8a Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:01:02 GMT 2026-06-25T07:01:02.919Z <![CDATA[8 Developer Habits That Did More for Me Than Any Tool]]>

I use a lot of productivity tools. Obsidian, Jira, Todoist, sticky notes on the monitor. But the things that actually changed how I work…

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The signals plugin brings WebSocket-based push updates to Backstage. Here is what it enables and how to use it.

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Why StackOverflow-style Q&A belongs in your developer portal, not Teams.

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Everyone writes about onboarding the new hire. Nobody writes about what it does to the team they just joined.

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]]> https://drodil.medium.com/what-happens-to-your-team-when-a-new-developer-joins-4cb262a62e80?source=rss-9b257ecfcf10------2 https://medium.com/p/4cb262a62e80 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:01:02 GMT 2026-06-10T07:01:02.647Z <![CDATA[7 Backstage Plugins Worth Installing in Production]]>

The plugin ecosystem has hundreds of options. Most of them will cost you more time than they save.

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We set them, automated them, enforced them, and still failed. Here is what we actually learned.

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I watched a colleague squint at their terminal last week, typing git log --oneline --decorate --graph --all from memory. Took them four…

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Declarative delivery is great. Production incidents do not give rats ass about your philosophy.

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