Man, every day I get post after post on LinkedIn and Medium and Substack, and everywhere about using AI tools. “This Claude-Code technique revolutionized my company!” “Here’s my book on AI, and her...

Coupling yearly round-up 2024! Doing it again! This year I didn’t add a ton to the app, though there were more behind-the-scenes updates. The contribution system seems to be working!… but I still ...

Once again, I give you the Coupling yearly round-up. This time… 2023! 2023 was another year of merely organic usage - I have done zero promotion, other than the normal blogging I do… which isn’t r...

Discovering Kotlin The year: 2014. Young Rob (that’s me) was nine years into his career, and was frustrated. I had been working for years in typed languages, and one of the things I enjoyed the m...

Over the last five years or so, I’ve noticed that when joining new projects, I’ve naturally adopted a pattern. There are techniques I instinctively apply over the course of a few months. Having rec...

Been quiet for a few weeks, so I feel overdue for a post. A post I say! So here’s what’s been going on in Rob-world. Those of you who watch my LinkedIn know that I went public that I’m open-to-wor...

Jan 16, 2019: “Created new sugar functions to help describe different components of a test in kotlin.” Coupling, Git Hash: 0da861e6 Back in the before times of 2019, I wrote a library called “test...

It’s coming in late, but here is the Coupling yearly round-up for 2022! waits for wild applause Tough crowd. Anyway, I was a bit nervous about how these were going to turn out before collecting t...

Following on from my last post revisiting my Continuous Integration Metrics paper, here are my thoughts related to another book I’ve read recently: Escape Velocity by Doc Norton. Now given the tit...

In the foggy past of 2017, I wrote a short paper called “Metrics for Continuous Integration”. It consists of a semiformal model of how software teams produce work, and how to use that model to meas...