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Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews
We had interviewees use ChatGPT without their interviewer knowing. Here's what happened.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 300 posts.
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What the The end of 0% interest rates means for software engineers
The end of 10+ years of 0% interest rates is set to change the tech industry. What do higher rates mean for software engineering jobs, developers, and careers; and how can you prepare for this shift?
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How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent
This is a blog post aimed at people who want to do important work or make meaningful contributions to work, but feel they aren’t that smart and don’t have any talent. Thanks for reading Adaobi’s Newsletter!
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41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective
Jakob Nielsen has worked in user experience since 1983. Much changed, including moving from academia to practice but the mission remains!
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Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech
The lofty theory and the sordid reality of "perf".
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I need to grow away from these roots
Installation artwork by Vitling
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Take the Road Most Documented
How great would it be if the solution to most errors you face were in the first place you looked? That’s what the Arch Wiki has been for me: a massive wealth of information and troubleshooting resources to help me navigate the various configuration and installation issues I’ve encountered. Some people claim Arch Linux…
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Remote work won, don't let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise
Bad managers and CRE bagholders lost, competent employees and internet-savvy teams won ...arbitrary authoritarian control over your work-life is so 1900s
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How I got an O-1 visa as a software engineer
Jump ahead • Timeline • Meeting the extraordinary ability criteria • How much does it cost? • Should you work with a lawyer?
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Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data
Explore how DevEx boosts productivity and innovation according to new research.
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Balancing engineering cultures: Debate everything vs. just tell me what to build
Lessons from leaders at New Relic, Credit Karma, Reforge, Hubspot, Trulia, Intercom, VSCO, and more
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Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers
Lessons learned from a year of startup life.
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Silos are fine, as long as there is an API between them
"Destroying silos" is a clumsy solution to team isolation
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Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Association
I knew the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Political Science Association, the American Statistical Association, and the National Academy of Sciences had problems. It turns out the American Sociological Association does some bad things too.
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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on navigating complex systems
Few can measure the impact of a blog post they wrote, in the millions of dollars a year, but Patrick McKenzie has the receipts
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Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees
Last Updated: January 24, 2026One of the most enlightening moments in my career was when I discovered a…
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Scrum Sucks
Breaking news: Scrum is bad.
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How to Be More Agentic
On a supposedly difficult thing
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What I learned selling my company
At my first company, I internalized the standard advice to never think about M&A. The consensus was, and is, to just keep growing the business and good things will come. I did that, and I was lucky that good things did come in the form of a $130M acquisition
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Carta's 83b Oversight: A Tax Trap for Married Startup Employees (2023)
There's a blind spot in Carta's 83(b) election feature you need to know about if you're married and living in California.
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Signs that it's time to leave a company
When the company stops growing, when the founder moves on, when HR is calling the shots, when the executives care more about real estate…
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I quit my job to work full time on my open source project
Quitting my job to start a company
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A concrete example of what goes wrong with Apple's docs
Projects and thoughts from James Porter
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Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself
Discover insightful advice for young people, emphasizing choices, confidence, and personal growth through lived experiences.
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Behind the scenes: the struggle for each paper (2021)
The start of my sabbatical has given me a moment to reflect on my publications. But my CV only shows a list of neatly cataloged papers: title, authors, conference. Each one appearing no different from another. But how each paper ended up published is its own story, a story about people and opportunity.
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The best way to get unstuck
I started dabbling in entrepreneurship over 20 years ago and have experienced the feeling of stuckness more than I can recall...
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Think more about what to focus on
Including me
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My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad
As a full-time software engineer at Kapwing and full-time wanderer, I've learned a few things about how to be a digital nomad.
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Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets
Software engineering salaries come from one of 3 budgets. Which budget pays your salary shapes your day-to-day and influences your career trajectory