Catastrophic Mistakes Are a Team Failure

If people can make catastrophic mistakes on your team, the process is broken. ...

April 20, 2026 · 2 min · Jake Worth

Decoupling Design From Engineering

Often, when you work as an engineer on a small team, you don’t have dedicated designers on staff. How can you deliver beautiful, intuitive software without designers? Here’s a trick that helps me: decoupling my design work from my engineering work. ...

August 29, 2024 · 3 min · Jake Worth

Find Every Debugging Trail Marker

If you’ve ever watched me debug, you might think I’m moving slowly. That’s because I try hard to find every marker on the debugging trail. I believe this is one of the most valuable skills in debugging. ...

June 17, 2024 · 5 min · Jake Worth

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