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AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators
I’ve been noticing a trend among developers that use AI: they are increasingly writing and structuring docs in context …
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,747 posts.
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Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome
Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome
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Writing a good design document
A guide
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If you're remote, ramble
A lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion for remote teams.
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I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
After joining Mintlify (which acquired my previous company), I finally fixed a search bug that had bothered me for over a year as a user - the debounced search queries weren't being aborted, causing race conditions and poaor search quality. By adding an AbortController to ensure only the most recent search query…
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Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills
Live coding measure stress, not coding skills
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So you're a manager now
Advice for first-time managers from someone who learned it the hard way, cleaned it up, and passed it on.
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What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?
I like bits, bits are mighty. With bits you can do impressive things!
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How to increase your surface area for luck
You should just do things
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The vibe coder's career path is doomed
Let me get one thing out of the way immediately: LLMs are helpful. This isn't about whether LLMs can write code. They can. It's about why vibe coding might be the worst career investment you'll make.
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Checklists are hard, but still a good thing
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Section 174 is reversed, mostly
Finally, relief: tax regulation hurting the US tech industry is striked off for good - for the most part, that is.
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NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency
Frivilous dependencies are the enemy of maintainability.
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Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)
Great mentors help, but purposeful tinkering and grit tend to forge the strongest software engineers.
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Gaslight-driven development
Computers are starting to have opinions on how our APIs should look like
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On doing hard things
I've never been known for my coordination, balance, or cardiovascular enthusiasm. In team sports, I was invariably the last one picked – probably only becaus...
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From engineer to manager: A practical guide to your first months in leadership
A practical and thoughtful guide for new engineering managers. Learn how to build agreements, avoid micromanagement, run effective 1:1s, and navigate your first months with clarity.
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Things I learned from 5 years at Vercel
Here are some of the lessons I learned and how I grew as a leader and manager, as well as a bunch of behind-the-scenes photos.
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AI coding tools can reduce productivity
Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate Gains
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The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management
The unspoken agreement that made Microsoft's lower pay tolerable has fundamentally broken.
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Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions
For the past 7+ years, I've been conducting a programming interview that has been a true personal favorite of mine. It was passed down to me from good friends (Jeremy Kaplan and Carl Sverre, and it was the latter whom I believe invented it). This interview has probably been
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Two and a Half Years in GameDev
About 3 years ago, I joined a GameDev company, without any prior experience making games or hands-on exposure to this industry. Statistically, this time is not even enough to release a single game. But during that window, I was lucky to meet many talented people deeply involved in modern GameDev, who shared with me…
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How to Network as an Introvert
A calm guide to networking as an introvert—learn how posture, presence, and small signals can help you connect meaningfully without faking extroversion.
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A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science
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Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
on starting, doing, being, and becoming.
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Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
From chronically sore to chronically curious about the mind 🧠
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The first time I was almost fired from Apple
I was hired on at Apple in October of 1995. This was what I refer to as Apple’s circling the drain period. Maybe you remember all the doomsaying — speculation that Apple was going to be shuttering soon. It’s a little odd perhaps then that they were hiring at all but apparently Apple reasoned that they nonetheless…
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Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck
LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment.
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