https://tomwells.org/Writing by Tom Wellshttps://tomwells.org/blog/agents-need-their-own-spreadsheet/https://tomwells.org/blog/agents-need-their-own-spreadsheet/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAgents don’t need more context. They need a workplace.https://tomwells.org/blog/agentic-engineering-discipline/https://tomwells.org/blog/agentic-engineering-discipline/Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTAs a technology leader working for a software engineering company, it's becoming increasingly obvious that we need to revamp how we approach our work given the new agentic tools at our disposal. The old methodologies don't account for the uhttps://tomwells.org/blog/json-schema-rant/https://tomwells.org/blog/json-schema-rant/Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTWhile learning about building Agents, MCP, etc I've come across a few patterns which tingle my spidey-sense, such as:https://tomwells.org/blog/haskell_for_prototyping/https://tomwells.org/blog/haskell_for_prototyping/Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMTA friend, named Gavin, wanted me to help him with a cool chess analysis thing he was playing with - and I suggested we extreme program a prototype using haskell - it was pretty amazing to pair program with because it's so frikkin simple to https://tomwells.org/blog/finding-purity-again/https://tomwells.org/blog/finding-purity-again/Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTI'm getting back into Haskell since giving up on it around 2013 - of course due to work distractions, but mainly having the wrong expectation of what it would require from my brain to wrangle the fundamentals. At the time I found the syntaxhttps://tomwells.org/blog/restful-in-peace/https://tomwells.org/blog/restful-in-peace/Fri, 10 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTWe obviously all love REST - and it's become the standard least-surprising choice to make when building any type of service these days, be it monolithic, microservice, web, or whatever.https://tomwells.org/blog/what-i-look-for-in-a-developer/https://tomwells.org/blog/what-i-look-for-in-a-developer/Mon, 17 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMTI interview prospective developers for my company almost every week, and over time have developed a bit of a sixth sense for sussing out talent. Here are a couple of the hallmarks that I look out for during an interview.https://tomwells.org/blog/intro-to-fluid-infrastructure/https://tomwells.org/blog/intro-to-fluid-infrastructure/Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMTI gave a small talk to a couple of smart C-level people last week around my concept of Fluid Infrastructure.https://tomwells.org/blog/practical-functional-programming/https://tomwells.org/blog/practical-functional-programming/Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMTI *cringe* when I see this sort of code:https://tomwells.org/blog/code-101-pass-by-reference/https://tomwells.org/blog/code-101-pass-by-reference/Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 GMTThis is part 1 of a multi-part post on programming fundamentals. This stuff may seem fairly pedestrian to some folks, but then it's probably not targetted at you.https://tomwells.org/blog/livescript-rocking-your-world/https://tomwells.org/blog/livescript-rocking-your-world/Fri, 30 May 2014 00:00:00 GMTI presented a TechSession(tm) to my development team last week which was meant to be about LiveScript. It turned out that in order to understand what the purpose of something like LiveScript is, you need to understand the beauty-warts of Jahttps://tomwells.org/blog/a-word-on-monads/https://tomwells.org/blog/a-word-on-monads/Tue, 15 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMTA clever guy once said that once you understand what a monad is you lose the ability to explain what it is to other people - and he's (almost) right. Monads are a weird and wonderful thing, but sometimes are easiest to understand when given