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Perspective on software craft, team structure, and the technical decisions behind Vinove's five companies.

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Engineering December 2025

ValueCoders and the engineering standard

Engineering services exist on a spectrum from staffing to outcomes. ValueCoders was built around the conviction that clients come for outcomes.

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Engineering June 2026

What AI actually requires of the companies building with it

The companies building with AI that will have something to show at the 18-month mark asked a harder question before they started.

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Engineering November 2025

How distributed teams change the review process

Code review works differently when the reviewer and author share no overlapping hours. The asynchronous model requires different conventions, not just more documentation.

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Engineering September 2025

The cost of skipping the boring infrastructure work

Every team that skips observability, testing, or deployment automation in the early stages pays for it later. The payment is larger than the saving was.

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