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Opinion: Whither Microsoft? A view from the neighborhood A Sammamish, Wash.-based operations consultant who counts Microsoft employees as neighbors offers an outsider's diagnosis of the tech giant's cultural challenges — from internal politics dominating we...

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There goes the pain! #BrockLesnar #HangingUpTheBoots

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StrongDM Software Factory StrongDM's field notes on non-interactive agentic development: specs + scenarios, validation harnesses, feedback loops, and the supporting components.

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CEO-CTO Therapy (Part 3): Prioritization The sitcom-worthy moment: CEO barges into the room with three new “must-haves” for the current version. The CTO, with ruffled hair and bags under the eyes, pleads for a breather. &#8220…

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Using Agents is literally engineering management | Jack Danger Managers understand what's going on with AI better than ICs. The whole job of management is getting heterogeneous intelligences with incomplete context to coordinate toward a goal.

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Some secret management belongs in your HTTP proxy - exe.dev blog do third-party integrations via HTTP header management

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Under the hood of MDN's new frontend | MDN Blog You may have spotted that MDN has a new frontend. There's plenty happening under the surface, so let's unpack the technologies we chose, the architectural decisions we made, and why we did a rebuild a...

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Build to Learn vs Build to Earn | Silicon Valley Product Group A partnership dedicated to teaching best practices to product teams and product leaders

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Wifey’s new whip

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The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe All empires must fall.

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Splice Just Built the Thing the AI Music Debate Was About The attribution argument is over. Someone shipped it. Now operators have a build-or-buy decision, not a philosophy class.

Proud to lead the engineering team that built and shipped this product. 💕

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Is this another one of your guilty pleasures, John?

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That you’re not a Marvel or Star Wars fan?

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Who will be the senior engineers of 2035? And what do we need to do about that right now?

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Trump Just Gave A Bonkers Excuse For Why He Shared An AI Image Of Himself As Jesus—And Nobody's Buying It

He is completely unhinged.

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Building an MCP Ecosystem at Pinterest Tan Wang | Software Engineer, Agent Foundations

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matduggan.com It's JSON all the way down

Markdown Ate the World

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Agile in the Age of AI - Miren The principles haven't changed. The participants have.

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Repurposing hackathons in the age of AI Something old, something new...

Some of my thoughts on how we might help junior engineers develop the mental models to become senior engineers given the current thinking in the industry.

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Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live Hungary's prime minister has been ousted after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar set to be the country's new leader.

“His defeat will come as a blow to his close allies Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump” - BBC

Trump is so toxic that any international election he tries to meddle in, his candidate of choice has suffered a humiliating defeat.

The entire world figured out what American voters were too dumb to.

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Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a reall...

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The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Organizations Are Flying Blind A breakdown of what software development teams actually cost, what they need to generate to be financially viable, and why most organizations have no visibility into either number.

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Reviving Koken :: The online home of Brad Daily. AI brought my old project back to life in an hour. I'm still not sure how to feel about it.

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Tech CEOs like to argue that AI will disrupt entry level jobs that involve research & analysis.

Interestingly enough they don’t say this about tech jobs despite this being where AI seems to have found better product market fit than in displacing junior lawyers and financial analysts.

I wonder why?

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Watching High Potential and one of the cops said, “I know! I’ll run it through Copilot!” The next commercial was for Copilot.

Microsoft is spending a lot of money trying to make fetch happen.

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Who’s the Admin, Me or Claude? Credit: Museums Victoria / Unsplash There’s a lot of conversation right now about “context engineering” for dev work; structuring what you feed an LLM so it can do useful things. …

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The five stages of losing our craft | Debugging Leadership Last Tuesday I was on a coaching call with an engineering manager. Let's call her Sarah (because that's her name). She was describing a situation I've now heard about forty times in the last twelve mo...

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Depluralize a movie.

Sinner

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Software Engineering Is Becoming Civil Engineering

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