Agentic Engine Optimization (AEO) AI coding agents consume documentation fundamentally differently from humans. If you're still optimizing only for human readers, you're leaving a growing sha...

AEO is fundamentally different than SEO - "The teams that move early here will probably have a real advantage: their APIs will be the ones agents recommend, integrate successfully, and come back to." addyosmani.com/blog/agentic...

30 seconds to midnight? 15? The Trump administration is literally playing with fire.

This is not a drill. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Waiting for me to complete this last test so we can go out and play

Proposal for a standard HTML element to display a map on a web page would dramatically change how we use maps on the web maps4html.org/HTML-Map-Ele...

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Lessons from Swapping Out Our Authentication System By implementing the new authentication system alongside the legacy system, we shipped when we were ready and de-risked the rollout.

Great blog post about managing technical debt: it isn’t just about writing code, it’s about managing complexity, making trade-offs, and keeping the team aligned with the project vision www.esri.com/en-us/softwa...

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one of my favorite topics

12 • Bike Shedding - Hitchhikers Guide to Design Bike shedding refers to the tendency of teams to spend disproportionate more time and energy debating trivial or easy-to-understand aspects of a project, whi...

Maximum energy on minimum impact, are you #BikeShedding again?
#UX #Design #UI #UXDesign #ProductDesign #DesignThinking #books #humor #DontPanic #UXFails
hitchhikersguidetodesign.com/book/bike-sh...

Is Portland Burning? I think not! isportlandburning.com

Our Third Hacktoberfest: Celebrating Open Source in 2025 Join Esri for Hacktoberfest 2025! Contribute to open source, learn, and collaborate with the developer community this October.

Hacktoberfest starts tomorrow - join us and contribute to open source, let's make great software www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

Esri Developer - AI Survey Customer survey on AI-usage for software development tasks.

share your views about using AI to write code, take our survey on AI for developers survey123.arcgis.com/share/b134e9...

180+ NPM Packages Hit in Major Supply Chain Attack | OX Security NPM Supply Chain Hack: 40+ Packages Compromised Shai-Hulud, @ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM packages trojanized in major attack, exposing developer credentials and cloud secrets. Shai-Hulud,

Another day, another security breach: "Resilience now comes from identity hardening and pipeline policies, not hope that upstream stays clean." www.ox.security/blog/npm-2-0...

Does LLM Traffic Convert Better Than Organic? A New Data-Backed Study Our most recent data study tests if LLM traffic converts better than search. Discover the results for a better understanding of how LLMs are driving traffic.

SEO is not dead yet. The evidence from this study shows that LLM traffic is not delivering a measurable conversion advantage over organic at this stage. www.amsive.com/insights/seo...

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Mission critical

LLMs + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare Things are about to get wild

Hack LLMs from Gary Marcus and Nathan Hamiel "LLMs were hallucinating the names of software packages that didn’t exist. Slopsquatters capitalized on this by creating malicious software packages under those names and waited for developers to implement them" garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-codin...

Which is it?

Beautiful night in Portland

image of liquid glass car polish

since the WWDC keynote on Monday I'm seeing Liquid Glass everywhere, it is such a hot topic, best to stock up before it sells out!

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Everyone likes my post! Gotta keep on posting

The Nutrition Quiz | Killer Quiz Test your knowledge of good nutrition and stay focused on your best self.

I scored 16,304 with 9 correct of 12 questions on The Nutrition Quiz. Can you do better? Play The Nutrition Quiz at killerquiz.com/1040. #trivia #killerquiz

Not unrelatedly, I just learned via @badastronomy.beehiiv.com.web.brid.gy that one of the White House's chosen 'influencers' believed that dark phases of the Moon were proof it was *actually, physically gone*, & went into a public panic over it last October:

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-example...

What's New: Esri Developer Experience (May 2025) YouTube video by Esri Developers

Developers - check out our live stream featuring updates to game engine SDKs and developer resources to help you build amazing apps with Esri location services www.youtube.com/live/KTaistH...

In 1 week, #Esri webinar: What's New: Esri #Developer Experience (May 2025) tinyurl.com/3s2d8utp

#geodev #esridev #GIS #arcgis #GISChat #geospatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #TheScienceOfWhere #geosky

Opinion | An Interactive Map of Global Migration Dive into a new data set released by Meta, charting immigration flows among 181 countries over four years.

interactive globe from NYT depicting immigration and emigration www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s a beautiful day, don’t let it get away

The Killer Quiz: City View | Killer Quiz Test your knowledge of these popular cities around the world. You are given the aerial view of city, you must choose the best match to the city that is represented by the location.

I scored 16,328 with 9 correct of 10 questions on The Killer Quiz: City View. Can you do better? Play The Killer Quiz: City View at killerquiz.com/1109. #trivia #killerquiz

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AI: it can write code, but do you know it is the right code?

How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read Software bloggers can make the same mistakes for years that prevent readers from discovering their writing. I know because I'm one of them. Over time, I've learned techniques that help some blog posts...

When blogging for developers try to get two questions answered as quick as possible: 1. Is this article for me? 2. How will I benefit from reading it? refactoringenglish.com/chapters/wri...