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Two Incident Cultures, Same Decline Spike
Engineering CultureIncident ResponseAI

Two payments teams can run the exact same incident when a graph dips - one closes it with a doc, the other closes it with a fix - and AI just made the expensive option nearly free, which clarifies what the ritual was actually for.

Two Ways Teams Decide What's Next
Engineering CulturePlanningAI

Two teams can plan the exact same way and land on opposite instincts — and AI is making the quarterly ritual nearly free just as shipping cycles get too fast for a quarter to hold.

Code Review, Two Speeds
Engineering CultureCode ReviewAI

Two teams can run the exact same code review process and mean completely different things by it — and AI-generated code is quietly collapsing that spectrum around one question, "does anyone actually understand it."

Movie Impressions
Movie

Impressions after watching "The Man Who Knew Infinity" and a Hindi film about homemakers on a flight from Tokyo to Singapore.

Singapore – Living Cost 2014
LifeCost

A rough breakdown of monthly living costs in Singapore in 2014 — rent, food, transport, entertainment — from the perspective of a bachelor expat.

Bring a Change – Team Development
TeamEnthusiasmNew Feature

Notes on how to actually push a new policy or technology change through a team, from spotting the problem to finding an ally to owning the rollout yourself.

Individual Projects vs Team Projects
TechnologyTeam Development

A few thoughts on what changes when you move from solo university projects to collaborating in a team — version control, issue tracking, CI, build systems, and shared databases.

Configure GIT for Multiple Users
GitTechnology

A step-by-step walkthrough of setting up EGit in Eclipse with SSH keys so multiple developers can collaborate on the same Git repository.