https://www.zegreatrob.com/ This is RoB's place - where curiosity meets ferocity. Rob is a software surgeon, committed to helping software help people, by getting it the care it needs. 🤖🏥🕺 2026-10-26T11:12:16-04:00 RoB Murdock https://www.zegreatrob.com/ Jekyll © 2026 RoB Murdock /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-06-08T00:00:00-04:00 2026-06-08T00:00:00-04:00 https://www.zegreatrob.com/2026/06/08/questionable-future.html RoB Murdock

Man, every day I get post after post on LinkedIn and Medium and Substack, and everywhere about using AI tools. “This Claude-Code technique revolutionized my company!” “Here’s my book on AI, and here are my Agent Skills you can download!” “These Techniques Will Solve your LLM-Code Woes!” It’s a lot. Everyone is an expert, it would seem. In a world where everyone seems to have the pretension to k...

2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-02T00:00:00-05:00 https://www.zegreatrob.com/2025/03/02/Grow-Together-2024.html RoB Murdock

Coupling yearly round-up 2024! Doing it again! This year I didn’t add a ton to the app, though there were more behind-the-scenes updates. The contribution system seems to be working!… but I still haven’t really promoted it or moved it to a space where most people could use it. I really should move some of that out to be more available - most of the work I’ve put into the app recently has been...

2024-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2024-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 https://www.zegreatrob.com/2024/03/14/Grow-Together-2023.html RoB Murdock

Once again, I give you the Coupling yearly round-up. This time… 2023! 2023 was another year of merely organic usage - I have done zero promotion, other than the normal blogging I do… which isn’t really promotional in nature. I did spend some time doing some more R&D on the app though, and we’ll see how/if it comes through. Numbers The work I did to make the calculations easier is really...

2023-08-04T00:00:00-04:00 2023-08-04T00:00:00-04:00 https://www.zegreatrob.com/2023/08/04/kotlin-retro.html RoB Murdock

Discovering Kotlin The year: 2014. Young Rob (that’s me) was nine years into his career, and was frustrated. I had been working for years in typed languages, and one of the things I enjoyed the most about work was studying code usability. I had access to a lot of early-career engineers, and had the opportunity to watch how they read and write code. I could watch where they would stumble. So I...

2023-08-02T00:00:00-04:00 2023-08-02T00:00:00-04:00 https://www.zegreatrob.com/2023/08/02/hit-the-ground-running.html RoB Murdock

Over the last five years or so, I’ve noticed that when joining new projects, I’ve naturally adopted a pattern. There are techniques I instinctively apply over the course of a few months. Having recognized this, I figured these might be of interest to people. So! Without further ado, let us talk about the… TOP FIVE ACTIONS A 10x DEVELOPER CAN TAKE WHEN JOINING A TEAM. Hold up. Are there even ...