Generalizing the design of data products

Design tokens are fundamental design decisions represented as data. Andreas Kutschmann explains how they work and how to organize them to balance scalability, maintainability and developer experience. more…

Once we've designed our initial data products, Kiran Prakash finishes his article by leading us through the next steps: identifying common patterns, improving the developer experience, and handling governance. more…

A very powerful new coding assistance feature made its way into GitHub Copilot at the end of October. This new “multi-file editing” capability expands the scope of AI assistance from small, localized suggestions to larger implementations across multiple files. Birgitta Böckeler tries out this new capability and...

With the recent uptick in tech activity on Bluesky, I've decided that I will start posting there in addition to my current locations. I've also put together my general thoughts on the state of social media, and how I'm using it, now that it's two years since The Muskover. more…

Matthew Foster and John Mikel Amiel Regida finish their account of how they incrementally modernized a mobile application by looking at the results of their work. They achieved a significant shortening of time to new value, and found that changes in the new application could be prepared in about half the time it...