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Coffee at the Office: The Boost That Hides Your Fatigue

July 22, 2026 •8 min read • Coffee

Coffee at the Office: The Boost That Hides Your Fatigue

At the office, coffees pile up: ritual, break, a boost before a meeting. What if that boost mostly masks a background fatigue? A small investigation, from observed behavior to what the science says.

MTTR: The Metric That Saves Your Nights

July 21, 2026 •10 min read • SRE

MTTR: The Metric That Saves Your Nights

You can't prevent every outage — but you can learn to recover fast. An overview of MTTR: what it measures, how to compute it honestly, how to reduce it, and why you should never turn it into a blind KPI.

Testing Your Bus Factor: The Muted Expert Exercise

July 20, 2026 •6 min read • Engineering

Testing Your Bus Factor: The Muted Expert Exercise

Adopting transfer practices proves nothing until you've verified they work. Here's how to measure your bus factor, with a simple, risk-free exercise: the muted expert.

The Setups That Make Knowledge Circulate: Rotation, Game Days and Guilds

July 20, 2026 •7 min read • Engineering

The Setups That Make Knowledge Circulate: Rotation, Game Days and Guilds

Role rotation, shared on-call, game days, guilds, InnerSource, onboarding: the organizational setups that keep knowledge from concentrating and make it circulate across the whole team.

Sharing Knowledge Asynchronously: Code Review, ADRs and Docs-as-Code

July 20, 2026 •7 min read • Engineering

Sharing Knowledge Asynchronously: Code Review, ADRs and Docs-as-Code

Code review, ADRs, docs-as-code, runbooks, postmortems: the ways of sharing knowledge that need neither the same place nor the same moment, and that produce a lasting trace — provided you go about it the right way.

Working Together in Real Time: Pair, Mob, Shadowing and Swarming

July 20, 2026 •7 min read • Engineering

Working Together in Real Time: Pair, Mob, Shadowing and Swarming

Pair programming, mob, shadowing, swarming: the four ways of working together in real time, their variants, their pitfalls, and how to choose the one that fits your situation.

Sharing Knowledge in a Tech Team: A Guide to Collaboration Modes

July 20, 2026 •6 min read • Engineering

Sharing Knowledge in a Tech Team: A Guide to Collaboration Modes

Pair programming, mob, shadowing, ADRs, on-call rotation… An overview of the ways knowledge travels within a team, and how to choose the right one based on the nature of the knowledge you need to pass on.

When the Last Expert Leaves

July 20, 2026 •6 min read • Engineering

When the Last Expert Leaves

A critical system nobody understands anymore, a departure that takes years of knowledge with it: a team's memory is invisible technical debt. How to preserve it and pass it on before it's too late.

Making Your Charts Accessible to Everyone

July 20, 2026 •9 min read • DataViz

Making Your Charts Accessible to Everyone

Contrast, color blindness, text alternatives: the best practices to keep your charts understandable by everyone, on screen and in print.

7 Common Mistakes in Data Visualization

July 14, 2026 •4 min read • DataViz

7 Common Mistakes in Data Visualization

Truncated axes, overloaded pie charts, too many colors… The 7 mistakes that make a chart unreadable or misleading, and how to fix them.

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