I like the larger and higher quality display.

Clippy Has No Clothes Clippy had no clothes, and neither do Clippy Reincarnates Claude, Microsoft Copilots, Gemini, and the like.

Are we in a tech bubble?

How much investment money is being thrown around lately?

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Fundamentals This website contains learning resources, opinions, and facts about software-related technology.

If any group of people or any individuals wants results put in the reps and learn the fundamentals.

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Look, the only people winning any game worth living are the ones that bet on fundamental education and values. There are NO shortcuts to greatness. Either you put in the reps or you get mediocre results. It’s that simple.

As I watch life from the sidelines on the line I feel I have an interesting point of view.

Countries are worried about domination. It’s their specialty. I see a lot of people talking about how China is winning the AI game.

Will agent clusters running agent clusters eat the whole?

#GenAI #AI #Agents #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

If it’s the extra work kind of popular it would be terrible. 😀

Fundamentals of JavaScript Why JavaScript works the way it does: dynamic typing, prototypes, closures, and the event loop. Concepts behind the design and when it fits.

JavaScript was written in 10 days… and we’re still debugging it 30 years later.

Learn JavaScript’s weird behavior and how to prevent bugs.

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Fundamentals of Rust Why Rust exists: memory safety without garbage collection, ownership, and fearless concurrency. Learn the concepts behind Rust's design and when it fits.

Programming in C is like juggling knives. Rust is the friend who quietly takes half the knives away.

Learn how Rust prevents memory bugs while providing low-level control.

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The new "compiling".

Inspired by: xkcd.com/303/

#Compiling #Vibing #GPT #AI #GenAI #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

Annoying Auth — Deadly Cut 14 Magic links, OAuth churn, absurd password rules, and CAPTCHA theater waste human time. Passkeys and WebAuthn may be the missing magic link.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙘 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩 ⛔️

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#Auth #Incorrect #Software #Application #Tools #Web #Desktop #Computer

A tale as old as time.

#AI #GenAI #Chat #God

What Is Just-in-Time Catching Test Generation? Just-in-Time Catching Test Generation creates tests on-the-fly with large language models to catch bugs before they land. Learn why it exists and how it works.

What if tests didn't need to be written or maintained by humans?

JIT catching test generation; LLMs create and run tests per PR to catch bugs before they escape.

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#Software #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering

Fundamentals of Graph Databases Why graph databases exist, when to use them, and how they differ from relational databases. Learn nodes, edges, and relationship-first querying.

Social graphs, recommendation engines, fraud detection, dependency maps. The common thread: relationships are the data.

Learn when graph databases shine and how relationship-first storage can simplify.

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#Graphs #GraphDatabase #Database #Software

Fundamental Skills Fitness review skills turn fundamentals into repeatable, scored code reviews across architecture, security, reliability, and more.

Your pull request is about to get roasted by nine specialists simultaneously.

Learn what they are, why they work, and how they fit together.

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Fundamentals of Maintainability Why software maintainability matters: structural complexity, understandability, technical debt, coupling, and code smells. Learn the principles that keep code changeable over time.

You didn’t build a product. You built a haunted house that your future self has to live in.

Learn how technical debt traps teams and how to escape it.

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#CodeQuality #Software #SoftwareDev #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering

Things That Are No Longer True With AI AI has overturned old assumptions about writing, thinking, coding, art, buying software, and needing experts. Here are some things that are no longer true.

I’m watching “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” and realizing the real monster is obsolete assumptions.

Explore which beliefs about writing, coding, art, and expertise AI has quietly killed.

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#ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #TechTrends #SoftwareEngineering

Fundamentals of AWS Why AWS works the way it does: regions, IAM, shared responsibility, and core services. Learn the concepts that shape cloud decisions.

The most valuable AWS skill is knowing how the pieces fit together.

Learn the platform's core structure to prevent relying entirely on Kilo Code's guessing superpowers.

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#Software #Technology #AWS #Cloud #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineer

Fundamentals of Azure Why Azure works the way it does: regions, Entra ID, resource groups, and core services. Learn the concepts that shape Microsoft cloud decisions.

Good architecture starts with a mental model, not a chat portal.

Learn a clear conceptual model for designing systems in Azure without Clippy's help.

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#Azure #Cloud #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

PSA: As a software development professional, I recommend reviewing code before shipping it. Or at least implementing a rock-solid high-defense CI/CD strategy paired with tight ACLs to prevent database deletions.

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Moar skillz. 💪

Is Aspirational CTO better?

Working on the margins.

#FractionalCTO #CTO #Margarine

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How Do I Use GitHub Private Mirrors? GitHub Private Mirrors let organizations contribute upstream without exposing drafts. What they are, why they exist, and how the GitHub Private Mirrors App works.

You can believe in open source and still use guardrails.

Learn how to mirror public repositories to protect your enterprise.

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What Is SBOM? SBOM is a Software Bill of Materials listing all components in software. Understand why it exists, how it works, and its role in software supply chains.

The software supply chain is already broken. SBOMs help you see where.

Learn how to make software visibility your first step.

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#Software #SBOM #SoftwareSupplyChain #AppSec #OpenSourceSecurity #DevSecOps #OSS #SRE #PlatformEngineering

What Is an OSPO? An Open Source Program Office (OSPO) coordinates strategy, compliance, and contributions. Learn what an OSPO is, why it exists, and how it works.

Legal, security, and devs walk into a bar. The OSPO keeps it from burning down.

Learn how OSPOs coordinate teams that could easily talk past each other.

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#OpenSource #OSPO #SoftwareGovernance #SoftwareSupplyChain #RiskManagement #OpenSourceSecurity

Logical Fallacies in Software Development Logical fallacies like sunk cost, false dichotomy, and confirmation bias derail software projects. Learn to recognize and avoid faulty reasoning traps.

Learn how appeal to authority influences tech choices, helping distinguish evidence from hype.

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#TechnicalLeadership #SystemDesign #Architecture #ProductManagement #CriticalThinking

Universal Yums Snacks from a different country delivered monthly.

You may like this. It’s a fun family experience. 😀

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If you’re writing software that solves these problems well you’ll at least keep a job for a while.

Bots, not so much. Look at any social media platform and you’ll see a flood of bots hawking their new AI wares to make a buck. It’s already true that the enshitification-larity was achieved on the likes of Facebook, expect the trend to accelerate.