Simon Nordberg
Writing about engineering and product.
Building Codebahn: lean GitHub alternative providing managed Git and CI for European teams.
Also building Duostride, and Valkompasskompassen.
Writing
What travels
The novice learns to apply effort. The expert learns where, how much, and when. Only one of those moves with you.
Why I'm building Codebahn
Nobody chose to put European software on US infrastructure. It happened one sensible default at a time.
Legibility theater
When visibility determines what gets valued, organizations get better at looking productive.
The flattening
We had a real problem with hierarchy. We fixed the process. But making the process fair isn't the same as making the outcome good.