Engineering Leadership

TopTimer is a free, open-source macOS menu-bar timer that runs offline. How it parses commands, handles DST and recurrence, and what it leaves out.

A requirements template for AI automations: target rate, confidence threshold, human review, failure handling and a definition of done, with a worked example.

A per-direction acceptance-criteria checklist for Arabic RTL features: layout, names, validation, sort, dates, exports and the evidence to ask for.

Estimates drift because requirements are ambiguous, not because the estimation ritual is wrong. Notes on acceptance conditions, multilingual delivery, and why AI work makes vague requirements more expensive.