Saw two back to back posts on LinkedIn making very confident predictions about the future of platform engineering in the AI era. One insisted it’s dead, one expects it will expand and grow in importance. 🫠

One Year (Back) in Engineering Management Reflecting on one year back on the management track. What felt familiar and what surprised me.

I wrote some reflections on one year back on the engineering management track brookesargent.com/One-Year-Bac...

I will literally never pass up an opportunity to make buffalo chicken dip (happy Super Bowl/Bad Bunny concert)

I encountered the idea of digital gardens last month and have been trying to maintain one since.

At first it felt kind of unhinged to keep organized notes on most things I consume. But now I’m realizing that if it feels overwhelming, that’s probably the point. I’m just consuming too much.

I actually feel taken aback when people don’t even recognize bucatini as a pasta

I get to see Wicked: For Good on Monday evening 🤩

There’s something so peaceful about a November 1st walk before the rest of the neighborhood is awake. Crisp air, fire pits left at the edges of driveways, and stray Twizzlers and Milky Ways peeking out of the leaves.

Not to brag but a teen told me my house is tea and my costume is slay tonight 💁‍♀️

Mike Flanagan’s series from 2018!

Two nights before Halloween, rain pouring outside, Haunting of Hill House on. 👻 Vibes unmatched 👌

two jack-o-lanterns at the cemetery on a sunny day with trees that have leaves turning yellow and orange

the vibes at the cemetery were immaculate today

the switch up from Lucy Davis when she realized it was not a joke killed me

A variety of garden tomatoes roasted in a cast iron skillet with garlic and basil and olive oil

My late-season Sunday tomato sauce says hi 🍅

Had a very normal October Saturday night testing how well the fog machine covers our yard display 🌫️

A jack-o-lantern mug of coffee in a cozy living room with Halloween decor and the book The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno Garcia

Oops I forgot to open BlueSky for… 8 months? But good news: I’m back, it’s my favorite time of year, and I’m enjoying my morning coffee in a jack-o-lantern mug 🎃

Alan Cumming said Martha Stewart is his ideal pick for a future Traitors season and now I can’t stop thinking about it

can we all agree the Superb Owl joke is cringe at this point?

I know very little about football and still I find myself taking care not to accidentally wear Chiefs colors while getting ready this morning

also crumpetmuncher now lives in my brain forever 💀

This week’s Traitors roundtable has me literally SWEATING

Cooling loaf of fresh sourdough in the kitchen

morning sourdough (not in a tradwife way)

An incomplete puzzle

Replaced my morning TikTok scroll today with some puzzling because regardless of whether the app is available or not, the trust is gone and it won’t be the same moving forward

Have already muscle memory opened the TikTok app 5 times today 😭

YIKES, reading that summary literally made my jaw drop

I haven’t even seen the Sonic movies, only the trailers but the character design is so similar 💀

i’m so sorry but i couldn’t think about anything except jim carrey in the Sonic movies while watching Nosferatu

Someone was repeatedly shooting a CANNON in my neighborhood last night. WHY???

Statue of a skeleton with sunglasses having a drink under a palm tree

mood

I always forget how good the Fear Street movies are

Why are the TikTok fitness girlies constantly trying to say hearts of palm tastes exactly like a mozzarella stick??? IT DOES NOT