# lot fun (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover lot fun. Page: Feed: --- ## [How to stay sane when you have an infinite amount to learn](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/how-to-stay-sane-when-you-have-an) _2026-07-23 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ I was having a conversation with some younger colleagues today about early-career development. ## [Code is not (just) a liability.](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/code-is-neither-an-asset-nor-a-liability) _2026-07-12 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ It's more complicated than that. ## [AI is a lot of fun](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/ai-is-a-lot-of-fun) _2026-06-13 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ The most positive thing I can say about “AI” coding tools is — and I mean this sincerely — that they are a lot of fun to play with. ## [Some Questions Driving Empirical Software Development](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/some-questions-driving-empirical) _2025-11-14 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ empirical (adj.) ## [Structure Eats Behavior for Breakfast](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/structure-eats-behavior-for-breakfast) _2025-09-17 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ Prioritizing software defects ## [Reasons not to write bugs](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/reasons-not-to-write-bugs) _2025-09-06 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ What's 0.1% worth? ## [Service Asymmetry](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/service-asymmetry) _2025-08-22 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ Imagine we're the programmers responsible for building a software service. ## [Steps Under the Microscope](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/steps-under-the-microscope) _2025-06-23 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ We change a software system by taking many small steps to get from our current state to our desired state. ## [A Taxonomy of Testing](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/a-taxonomy-of-testing) _2025-05-05 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ Unit vs. system, manual vs. automated ## [How I make decisions](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/how-i-make-decisions) _2025-02-03 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ Here’s how I actually make decisions when programming. ## [Home Internet From Space (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XJkYcjbliJ39) _2025-02-03 · **Sponsored**_ Residential satellite internet that brings connectivity to homes beyond conventional networks ## [Diamond Design, Part 2](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/diamond-design-part-2) _2025-01-27 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ Hello and happy new year! ## [Diamond Design, Part 1](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/diamond-design-part-1) _2024-12-26 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ An alternative to the dreaded \`utils\` folder ## [The Zero-Bug Rules](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/the-zero-bug-rules) _2024-12-16 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ There once was an Old West town called Two Dudes. ## [Readme-driven development](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/readme-driven-development) _2024-12-14 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ My first forays into programming, in middle school and high school, were in the domain of computer games — written in Visual Basic, of all things. ## [Entrypoint Document](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/entrypoint-document) _2024-12-02 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ How to find what's important ## [Walking Skeleton](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/walking-skeleton) _2024-11-26 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ How to begin ## [Building a Raspberry Pi 3/4/5 Baby Monitor](https://kamranicus.com/building-a-raspberry-pi-3-baby-monitor/) _2024-11-22 · Kamran Ayub · Kamranicus_ Use a Raspberry Pi and a couple cheap components to create an HD livestream that you can view on any device within your home. ## [Great code is CEVICHE](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/great-code-is-ceviche) _2024-11-18 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ The title of my work-in-progress book is Process to Processes. That’s because software development starts with a human process (team structure and development workflow) and ends with computer processes that effect some desired behavior. The first process fully determines the nature of the second. ## [Why I Bought An Old Ass MacBook](https://kamranicus.com/skill-of-spending/) _2024-11-13 · Kamran Ayub · Kamranicus_ I share the strategies and process I follow to make big purchases that has saved me hundreds of thousands of dollars ## [Why make software better?](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/why-make-software-better) _2024-11-12 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ Reintroducing Process to Processes ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5R9YqnIhkVED) _2024-11-12 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [Stack, Queue, or Shrug?](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/stack-queue-or-shrug) _2024-09-16 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ How to navigate a mess ## [Code Quality: Hidden Costs, Unexpected Benefits](https://bensguide.substack.com/p/code-quality-hidden-costs-unexpected) _2024-09-02 · Ben Christel · Ben’s Guide to Software Development_ Cross-posted from benchristel.com.