Hayati İbiş · Sunday reading for engineers.
Sunday reading for engineers
Coming up · 08 Nov 2026 Nobody asked for this
- 2026 Essay It's not a sprint, it's a marathon Scrum calls its steady rhythm a sprint, and agents now sprint for us without ever getting tired. We can't. The pace has to live in the system, so it holds when nobody is watching.
- 2026 Essay What a skill can draw An agent skill that explains an idea by drawing it as a working machine. It went and read Volvo's fact sheet before drawing a retarder, then drew a watch escapement, and finally itself.
- 2026 Essay Make it work, make it right, make it fast ● The order is the whole point. Each step has its own definition of done, and the last one starts with a measurement, not a hunch.
- 2026 Mention Every Change Reviewed, Every Peak Absorbed: Paribu's API Gateway ↗ ●
- 2026 Essay Shipping software with a pilot's checklist ● In 1935 a new bomber crashed because one step lived in the pilot's head. Test pilots answered with a card. Software can borrow the card, and hand some of its lines to the pipeline.
- 2026 Essay A refactor without tests is a rewrite ● Refactoring means changing the structure and keeping the behaviour. Without tests you can't show the second half, and then it's a rewrite with a nicer name.
