A blog about human-centered software development, experiences, thoughts, and learnings. https://blog.moriel.tech Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:17:29 GMT en-us Complexity doesn't disappear when you "simplify" something. It moves. And there's a real, honest-to-physics reason why. https://blog.moriel.tech/posts/2026-06-conservation-of-complexity https://blog.moriel.tech/posts/2026-06-conservation-of-complexity Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architecture Physics of Software 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. https://blog.moriel.tech/posts/2026-05-junior-dev-collapse https://blog.moriel.tech/posts/2026-05-junior-dev-collapse Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architecture Gen AI Tech Industry 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. https://blog.moriel.tech/posts/dddnd-mirror https://blog.moriel.tech/posts/dddnd-mirror Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architecture Side Project DDDnD 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. https://blog.moriel.tech/posts/ddddnd-intro https://blog.moriel.tech/posts/ddddnd-intro Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architecture Side Project DDDnD 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. https://blog.moriel.tech/posts/genai-localization-experiment-intro https://blog.moriel.tech/posts/genai-localization-experiment-intro Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Gen AI Localization