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Recently, I wrote an article about my journey in learning about robots.txt and its implications on the data rights in regards to what I write in my blog. I was confident that I wanted to ban all the crawlers from my website. Turned out there was an unintended consequence that I did not account for. My LinkedIn posts became broken Ever since I changed my robots.txt file, I started seeing that my LinkedIn posts no longer had the preview of the article available. I was not sure what the issue was initially, since before then it used to work just fine. In addition to that, I have noticed that LinkedIn’s algorithm has started serving my posts to fewer and fewer connections. I was a bit confused by the issue, thinking that it might have been a temporary problem. But over the next two weeks the missing post previews did not appear.

Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.

Context Engineering is the new skill in AI. It is about providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time.

A home for Jihad Esmail.

Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

Many teams start with the MVP. But what if the key to shipping great products wasn’t starting small — but starting big? Could great products start at the finish line?

how i scraped together one of the largest collections of book recommendations on the internet

The best strategies including cycling, swim lanes, the boy scout rule, backlogs, and more.

Personal website of Matthias Endler, a Software Engineer interested in low-level programming and Backend development. Rust, Go

Analyse des éléments à prendre en compte pour générer un flux et le partager au plus grand nombre

This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building "10x engineering teams" . It was later picked up by IEEE Spectrum (!!!), who scrapped most of the teams content and published a different, shorter piece on March…

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

miguelgrinberg.com

Elastic scope, minimal cognitive overhead, clear objective, existing resources, and tangible artifact.