Bulrush Labs

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Richard Tibbetts' writing at Bulrush Labs about software, engineering management, systems, developer experience, and AI tools.

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My Coding Agents Have a Dialect #AI #SoftwareDevelopment #DeveloperExperience
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Oct 2, 2026
Give the Baseline a Fighting Chance #Software #Engineering #DeveloperExperience
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Oct 2, 2026
How My AI Chief of Staff Works--and How to Set Up Your Own #AI #Productivity #Management
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Oct 1, 2026
Silence Is Ambiguous: Eight Bugs in One Monitoring Loop #Software #Engineering #AI
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Aug 24, 2026
Nobody Was Watching the Sum #Software #Engineering #AI
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Aug 23, 2026
Clawhammer #Software #Engineering #AI
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Aug 23, 2026
Processing AI #AI #Software #Tech
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Aug 19, 2026
Reading Leveler #Software #Engineering #AI
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Aug 18, 2026
What Happens When You Give Your Coding Agents a Shared Slack #AI #SoftwareEngineering #DeveloperExperience
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Aug 16, 2026
Measuring a Design Instead of Eyeballing It #SoftwareEngineering #SystemDesign #DeveloperExperience
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Aug 14, 2026
Ballast #Software #Engineering #AI
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Aug 5, 2026
Making the Best of Your Time Resting and Vesting #Software #Engineering #Productivity
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Jun 30, 2023
Discussing Startups and Intellectual Property with the Boston Inn of Courts #Startups #IntellectualProperty #Law
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May 1, 2015
In Sales, Questions are More Valuable than Answers #Sales #Business #Communication
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Apr 28, 2015
10 Tips for Not Giving a Sales Pitch at a Meetup #Community #Networking #Professionalism
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Apr 6, 2015
Identify and Manage the Honey-Badger Developer #Developer #Management #Team
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Mar 28, 2015
Lessons Learned from Startup Weekend #Startup #Entrepreneurship #Tech
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Jun 18, 2012
Recommending the Franklyn D Resort (FDR) in Jamaica #Travel #Jamaica #Resorts
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Feb 12, 2011
Toddler Science and Big Data #Science #Data #AI
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Jan 3, 2011
Book Review: Early Exits: Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors #Business #Startups #Investing
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Dec 27, 2010
2010 The Year in Bookmarks #Tech #AI #SoftwareDevelopment
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Dec 20, 2010
There Can Be Too Many Suckers at the Table #Management #Teamwork #Productivity
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Dec 12, 2010
Yes Virginia, You Can Work on Great Technology at Startups #Startups #Technology #Engineering
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Dec 6, 2010
Three Months Without Cable #Technology #Software #AI
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Nov 29, 2010
Captchas: The Bear Proof Trash Can Problem #Security #Usability #AI
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Nov 21, 2010
Proactive Assumption Violation: Avoiding Bugs By Behaving Badly #SoftwareDevelopment #Engineering #BugPrevention
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Nov 14, 2010
What the Rally for Sanity Meant for Me #PersonalReflection #SocialCommentary #Community
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Nov 7, 2010
Lean Startups and the Theory of the Firm #Startup #Business #Economics
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Oct 24, 2010
Apple is a Luxury Brand, Android Will Never Be #Tech #Mobile #Business
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Oct 17, 2010
Non-Destructive Process Inspection on OSX: Blog Post Recovery #Software #DevOps #Troubleshooting
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Aug 29, 2010
Platonic Browser Session Management #Software #WebDev #Tech
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Jul 26, 2010
DEBS 2010 Highlights #Tech #AI #SoftwareDevelopment
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Jul 18, 2010
Passive Personal Networking: How to Let Others Network for You #Networking #Career #ProfessionalDevelopment
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Jul 11, 2010
Analysis of May 6th: The Importance of Near Misses #Analysis #Systems #Engineering
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Jun 27, 2010
Normal Accidents and Stock Market Crashes #Systems #Finance #Risk
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Jun 14, 2010
A Timeless Way of Building or Why do all these houses suck? #Architecture #Design #Building
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May 16, 2010
Device Convergence, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Kindle #Tech #Gadgets #Future
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May 9, 2010
End of the World Insurance: the Financial Halting Problem #AI #Finance #Systems
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May 2, 2010
Quick House Update #Software #Engineering #AI
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Apr 18, 2010
A Computer Scientist Bids on a House #ComputerScience #RealEstate #PersonalFinance
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Apr 11, 2010