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As a child, I had read about the Homebrew Computer Club, where Osborne and Apple were born - and I wanted to be part of a big movement like that ever since. When I first heard about Y Combinator I thought here was something happening right now that might be looked back on in the same way. I worked my way through the…
Product Owner: Hey, how long do you believe Feature F will take? Developer: Idk. We haven’t even started working on it and it’s bound to stir up some old issues.
Managing sets of small, dependent PRs enables faster review and increased developer velocity
This is not an easy post for me to write, being a bit of a criticism / “you can do better” note for organisers of conferences that cater to a global community.
Today's major defense systems rely heavily on software-enabled capabilities. However, many defense programs acquiring new systems first determine the physical items to develop....
There are many great coding principles, but it can be hard to keep them all in your head at once. Instead, I try to remember these three attitudes.
I think behind a lot of the enthusiasm around AI is a dream of being able to manifest things into reality without having to get into the details.
I've always wondered if I'm really happy at my work. After analysing my happiness throughout my entire career, I've found the exact answer to this question!
To realize how outdated the five-day, 40-hour workweek is, you have to know where it came from.
Dec 18 Update: This morning I was contacted by a PayPal manager from their fraud department who talked with me close to an hour. He went out of his way to apologize for their mishandling of my case. He told me that...
On an immersive future of learning
If you’re doing what you’re told to do, they are paying you too much.
Jeff Wilcox is a principal engineer at Microsoft working on Microsoft's engineering system. Jeff lives in Seattle.
The models are good now. But most people still miss the point.
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In this experiment, I wanted to see how good engineers and recruiters were at resume-based candidate filtering. Going into it, I was pretty sure that engineers would do a much better job than recruiters. However, that’s not what happened at all. As it turned out, people were pretty bad at filtering resumes across the…
(3 Min Read) Take control back over your calendar
A week ago, I wrote about how Generative and Agentic AI may be amplifying what I’ve been calling cognitive debt: the accumulated gap between a system’s evolving structure and a team’s shared unders...
Two books — 45 years apart — explain it. If you want to get ahead, it’s time to face the facts.
I wrote for The Onion News Network for exactly four weeks. Here's what I learned.
I was shocked at how obvious my mistakes as an engineer became after my perspective changed.
