Latest Blog Entries

On the positive benefits of lateral flow

How freedom of movement makes for a healthier org

Notes from an abandoned project

Dev Book Review: Sid Meier's Memoir!

Book review of Sid Meier's Memoir!

Dev Book Review: Competing in the Age of AI

Book review of "Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World" by Marcho Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani

Discarding Magic Feathers - Going Frameworkless in Scala

Notes from building a fully working frameworkless webapp in Scala

All the books I read in 2021

All the books I read in 2021

All the comicbooks I read in 2020

A run-down of all the comicbooks I read in 2020

All the books I read in 2020

A run-down of the books I read in 2020

How I, a software engineer, secured The Razor Crest

Some notes on using software engineering skills in real life

All the books I read in 2019

A run-down of the books I read in 2019, all written by women

All the books I read in 2018

Some notes on the 53 books I read in 2018

Empathy in programming is a two-way street

Hot takes about empathy and clean code are easy. Compassion for those with mental health issues apparently is not.

Your IT department is a monolith. Break it up.

For a corporation with many products, a single IT department may be a bigger burden than you think.

Branches and PRs: institutionalised distrust?

Feature branching may be the wrong solution to an important problem

Putting the drama back in deployment

Experimenting with browser speech APIs to make deploying new features a little more exciting again

All the books I read in 2017

A run through of all 22 books I read in 2017.

All the books I read in 2016

Notes on the 22 books I read in 2016

Consistent Codebases

Instead of flatly denouncing inconsistent codebases, are there positives we could be looking for?

Adventures in Feature Toggling

One approach in taking feature toggling beyond the basics

CoffeeScript Euler #1

Getting to grips with CoffeeScript using Project Euler

About

Jim Kinsey is an English software engineer based in Berlin. Currently at Springer Nature, formerly of BBC News & Sport.