Archive - The Tech Enabler

Announcing: Egoless Engineering, a tech enablement handbook

I spend a lot of my time writing, reading, thinking. Often I write to solve problems: either my own problems, or to help others solve their own…

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Hosting a vibe-coding hackathon

I recently hosted a general “Data & AI” hackathon at Schibsted, for all and any employees who wanted to join. It got me thinking about how vibe-coding…

Jun 21 •

May 2025

My guidelines for vibe-coding

If you do not know what you are running, you shouldn't be running it. Vibe coding is great for prototypes. Skip the cost of getting designers or…

May 29 •

Code is just a tool

Lots of words are used to refer to software engineers: coder, programmer, developer. I’ve come to realize that’s probably a misleading framing. Software…

May 17 •

Choose the right structure at the start

A good data structure can simplify code. Tegan's a toy language I made for a talk, based on the idea of having the right data structure simplifying…

May 1 •

April 2025

Writing a re-org post-mortem

In 2016, our company began a big shift in how we worked with our technical stacks. In 2023, when the project was shut down, a colleague and I were given…

Apr 10 •

March 2025

Keeping your head up during tough times at work

My employer, like many tech companies, is going through cost cuts. But I’m not too worried about my job. I know many colleagues, many of them very well…

Mar 20 •

February 2025

Personas in open source communities

Open source is the collective energy of a shared interest in a topic. Some will be there because it's part of their work. Others out of personal…

Feb 10 •

Coffee chats: getting to know an organisation

Randomized coffee chats between employees can help make everything a little easier. It makes collaboration easier if you know each other, even if the…

Feb 6 •

January 2025

The future of programming languages

No, AI is not replacing programming languages (yet).

Jan 21 •

Is Github a trustworthy keeper of our code?

In my various roles in different parts of the tech world, I see the tech industry struggling. Those training, implementing or creating LLMs have a duty…

Jan 3 •

December 2024

Understand, embrace, and love your product's niche

Some of the most powerful words a creator can say is "if you don't want to use this, that's okay, because someone else does". It is okay to build things…

Dec 29, 2024 •

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