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I used to change how I managed my todo list all the time and never had a system that was able to stand the test of time.

A practical Claude Code guide for product, business, and operations folks. Not about prompt engineering, more about how to actually use it: how to write CLAU...

Here’s what I consider to be the basics.

In a 2019 talk/rant titled “Everyone Watching This Is Fired”, games industry veteran Mike Acton rattled off a sample of 50 things he expects of developers he...

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

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Forget the bullshit tips and tricks, just talk to it.

I was chatting to a friend about my folding bike and I had the urge to write about it - because this falls in the category of “Things I wish I’d had decades...

I tried to use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to implement a connector between Youtube Music and opensubsonic. The end result was a fairly short amount of time to...

How do you know the output is good without redoing the work yourself? You've received a report, a market analysis for the new product you're planning to l...

The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.

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The 'AI replaces junior engineers' argument ignores basic economics. Junior employees aren't just cheap labor. They're salary insurance, pipeline protection,...

In an industry that pressures developers to always be shipping side-projects, it can be helpful to be retrospective with the projects that don't make the cut

I came across a video by Simple Lucas describing a routine to improve focus and productivity. The routine was basically: Don’t use any screens/entertainment...

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COMMENTARY: In an era when AI can write anything, authentic education must go beyond the mere production of words.

JavaScript chaining looks clean at first, but it can hurt readability and hide extra work. Here's when to break chains into simpler steps.

Everything your mentor wants to say but HR won't let them

I really like the "tech debt" metaphor. A lot of people don't, but I think that's because they either don't extend the metaphor far enough,...

Our company recently announced a fundraise. We were grateful for all the community support, but the Internet also raised a few of its colle...

We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...

Why the 'junior developer' metaphor for LLMs creates dangerous expectations, and how the Monkey Paw framing from folklore leads to better decisions about...

A rigorous study found AI-assisted developers are 19% slower yet believe they're 24% faster. The gap reveals that AI is best understood as an exoskeleton —...