Archive

Sep 16, 2025

$7B startup Head of Engineering and dad of 5 builds a profitable side project

Today is the 4th and final article in the ‘EM-builder’ series.

Sep 9, 2025

3D No-Code, nights and weekends - a director of engineering’s side project

Today’s article is the 3rd (out of 4) in the EM-builder series!

Sep 2, 2025

Building a $5K ARR Side Project While Managing 9 Engineers

Today's guest article is the 2nd one in the ‘EM-builder series’!

Aug 26, 2025

How an EM’s Side Project Reached 1,800 GitHub Stars

The next four articles are going to be a bit different - a series of guest posts by Engineering Managers who built side projects while working full-time.

Aug 19, 2025

10 simple internal tools any EM can build in under 2 hours

Had enough of Cursor code-thrashing?

Aug 12, 2025

Engineering Management in the Age of Agents

Why I'm very optimistic about Engineering Managers

Aug 5, 2025

Why things just work around some EMs

20 questions to check if you're actually proactive

Jul 29, 2025

Team got cut. Scope didn’t.

When you are asked to "do more with less"

Jul 15, 2025

Landing an EM role in 2025

The 5-step process to nail the hardest part - getting an interview