Hi, I'm Moriel.
I write about human-centered software development: how teams really build and ship software, and the experiences, thoughts, and learnings along the way.
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The Physics of Software Episode 2
Tech Debt is Software Entropy
Code decays when nobody invests in it, even good code. Physics calls that entropy, and your fridge has been demonstrating it the whole time.
Series
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The Physics of Software
Real physics, and what it says about your codebase.
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Delivery Engineering
Writing from the Delivery Engineering collection, as it takes shape.
Recent writing
The Physics of Software Episode 1
Conservation of Software Complexity (The Physics of Software)
Complexity doesn't disappear when you "simplify" something. It moves. And there's a real, honest-to-physics reason why.
The Junior Developer Collapse
I'm worried about junior developers. Not because the field is dying — it isn't. But because we're setting a generation up to fail in a specific, preventable way.
I Made a Funny Game About Software Teams. It Turned Out to Be a Mirror
I built DDDnD as a lighthearted game about software teams. Then the mechanics started reflecting reality a little too accurately. Here's what the simulation taught me about how we actually deliver software.
DDDnD: An Adventure Game About Shipping Software
DDDnD is a satirical card game about the real tradeoffs of software architecture — where shipping the quick fix is tempting, debt amnesty is seductive, and the CTO goes quiet for a reason. Here's what it is, why I built it, and why the humor hits harder than it should.
What AI Exposed About Iterative Development
I asked AI to build an app step by step – and to document every assumption it made along the way. What emerged was a striking mirror of how real software teams drift into invisible defaults and expensive "later" fixes.
