I finally wrote a post for View Source on Substack. I started it back in 2021, but never posted to it, because I didn’t know how it would be different from this blog. When my guest post for The Pragmatic Engineer went out, a lot of people subscribed to it because that’s where the guest post was hosted, and it was linked to my name automatically. This happened even though it had no posts.

So, now I see that the advantage of Substack is discoverability. I’ll use it as a place to publish more thought out, longer pieces probably based on the best posts on this blog, but rewritten to be better (since Old, Flawed Work is the Jumping Off Point). I decided that View Source will be about the causes of developer productivity.

My book, Pay Tech Debt to Go Faster Now, is my argument that some tech debt payments result in immediate developer productivity that pays for itself, so you should do that. The chapters offer practices for individuals, teams, and leaders on how to do that.

But, View Source, will be broader and look at other sources of productivity.