I Went for a Run. The Agents Kept Working.
What happens when writing software is no longer the constraint?
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Code, teams, experiments, and the occasional good idea. I’m Luke: an engineering leader who never stopped being a developer.
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Building with humans
Stories of human-centric engineering management. I write about the people behind the software: how we grow, lead, and build together.
Helping others grow
Thoughts on personal growth and helping other people develop.
On the shelves
Flint
A native markdown notebook for iOS. Notes live in vault folders you choose, in the Files providers you already use.
Explore the projectInkbird to MQTT
A quick project hacked together to read wireless thermometer data over Bluetooth and publish it to MQTT. Software meeting the physical world.
Explore the projectMonkey interpreter
An interpreter for the Monkey programming language, built in Go while following Thorsten Ball’s Writing an Interpreter in Go. From lexer and parser to evaluator and REPL. Created way back when learning algorithms and coding by pushing buttons was in fashion.
Explore the projectA better path to production
A Xero story from 2016 about questioning the process between a commit and a customer.
Explore the workContinuous delivery
A 2021 talk about DevOps, Accelerate metrics, and sustaining velocity and quality.
Explore the workMigrations
A 2022 talk about migrations and how they help teams sustain velocity and quality as software evolves.
View the slidesExplore the talk repositoryThe person
behind the projects.
I’m curious about how things work. I value autonomy, constructive feedback, and teams that have the context to make good decisions.
Outside software, there’s family, running, coffee, and tinkering with things around the house.