In 2026, I will again spend a lot of time explaining to people that things that sound really simple are actually quite complicated and that two things that look alike are in fact quite different.

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-problem-fractal

Note: This is the 12/24/2025 episode which I apparently forgot to publish on the date itself :-)

Full article: https://josvisser.substack.com/p/parameters-for-success

I used to think not nice was cool. How wrong I was!

Full article: https://josvisser.substack.com/p/the-gift-of-nice

Perhaps the hallmark of a good engineer is not that they always write good software, but that they can get bad software working and out of the door in time when the situation requires it.

Hot take: You might be doing SRE all wrong!

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/misinterpreting-sre

Everyone is stressed...

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/stress

Learning happens when you have to sink or swim...

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/tg-special-a-reader-question

Respect what came before because often there is much hard-earned wisdom embedded in existing solutions. Also: Replacing working code is hard.

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/respect-what-came-before

Modesty is not a hip trait in a world that suffers from culturally sanctioned ADHD, but all things considered, I’d rather be undecided while I am thinking, than wrong.

https://josvisser.substack.com/p/the-gift-of-modesty

Or: How to be successful while making many mistakes 🙂

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