Articles by jwworth
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How to get better at guitar (jakeworth.com)

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Better DX with Friday Reboots (jakeworth.com)

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Running a great software engineering standup (jakeworth.com)

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I read 44 books last year (jakeworth.com)

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What's Wrong With This Idea? (jakeworth.com)

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Things I check before opening a pull request (jakeworth.com)

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We Discourage Sleep in Code (jakeworth.com)

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Lessons from running Meetups for 10 years (jakeworth.com)

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How to Unabstract an Abstraction (jakeworth.com)

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Building with MCP, for Real (jakeworth.com)

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Learning to Program in 2026 (jakeworth.com)

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Running Great Refinement Meetings (jakeworth.com)

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Always Be Ranking (jakeworth.com)

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Acceptance Criteria That Work (jakeworth.com)

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Learning JavaScript Promises the Feynman Way (With AI Assistance) (jakeworth.com)

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Show HN: I Boiled a Decade of Debugging into a Practical Guide (jwworth.gumroad.com)

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We Ran a Kaizen for Knowledge Work (jakeworth.com)

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Generate the Data. Worry Later (jakeworth.com)

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Four Things I've Changed My Mind About in Engineering (jakeworth.com)

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How I Approach Feature Requests (jakeworth.com)

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Your Software Is Confusing (jakeworth.com)

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"Hit It Twice" Customer Service (jakeworth.com)

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Trade-Offs All the Way Down (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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I Don't Understand Debugging (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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Debugging Is a Story (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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Deliberate Restarts Only (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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Fuel, Air, Spark (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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Hard-Won Software Development Habits (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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We Should Take This Outside (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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Take the Big Project (jakeworth.com)

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Being the Third Engineer (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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Lambs Born in April (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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Why I'm Writing to You (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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If It's Too Hard, You're Doing It Wrong (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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I Need a Hero (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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"Yes, and" Your Next Assignment (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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Exposing My Ignorance (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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Decoupling design from engineering (buttondown.com/defragmenter)

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Reflections on Ten Years Professionally Programming (jakeworth.com)

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"What Would Finishing This Today Look Like?" (jakeworth.com)

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All My Best Debugging Tips (jakeworth.com)

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Absence of Color Is Better Than the Wrong Color (jakeworth.com)

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Product Hack: Asking 'What's the Why?' (jakeworth.com)

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Show HN: GitHub Pull Request Template (With Comments) (gist.github.com)