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There is a lot of debate in the software community around whether LLMs can replace developers. Part of the reason is the way we formulate the problem of what it means to write software. In industry, we still give outsize ...
Discover how to optimize Kubernetes costs with advanced monitoring and automation. Learn actionable strategies, explore CAST AI's innovative solutions, and
From imposter syndrome to shipping features used by millions, here's what I learned during my year as a remote engineer at Meta.
Less is more.
Discover how to classify DevRel content to understand what works for your team. Learn about 4 content types, their goals, and leading themes.
Introduction It is day 5 of the advent of code, and today we have an interesting problem of ordering pages. Let’s dive into the problem and how I approached i
Fork Around and Find Out is your downtime from uptime. Your break from the pager, and a chance to learn from expert’s successes and failures. We cover state-of-the-art, legacy practices for building, running, and maintaining software and systems. Be sure ...
Introduction Moving on to day 4, we have a grid problem in front of us, we are given some numbers in the form of a grid, i.e. some rows and columns with some up
The first time i saw Wicked was on broadway, around 2006-2007 when i first moved to the US
A coat cannot make you truly happy.
Introduction Well, it is day 3 of the advent of code 2024, and I have been doing it on live streams. I am behind two days but working through them one by one. S
A personal reflection on seven years of JS Party as the show transitions into its next chapter with dysfunctional.fm.
I wrote more terrible code. Here's how I fixed it.
I’ve recently decided to apply the permissive MIT License to all content on CSS Wizardry by default. How does this affect you?
The new Speculation Rules API is incredibly powerful, but we can do so much more! By taking a layered approach, we can add more progressive functionality.
Take ownership—and responsibility—of your social data
Introduction So, this is day 2 of the Advent of Code 2024 in Golang, and we will be exploring my approach and solution for the same. The problem was not as easy
Introduction Hello everyone, it’s that time of the year, Advent of Code, I will be solving this year as well with Golang. In previous years I have been doing
Not because it's cool (it is), but because it's what your company actually needs right now."Business in the front, party in the back" isn't just some throwback style. It's the whole point.In our corporate, don't-let-HR-see-this reality,
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in November 2024.
“Frameworkism preaches that the way to improve user experiences is to adopt more (or different) tooling from the framework's ecosystem. This provides adherents with something to do that looks plausibly like engineering, except it isn't. It can even become a ...
In the past week I had two people separately tell me what they thought the Python Software Foundation Conduct WG did and both were wrong (and incidentally in the same way). As such, I wanted to clarify what exactly the ...
Why design another new performance score?! Good question…
This post is not about measuring success in DevRel, but about making an impact in a way *only* DevRel can do, and *should* be doing.
Here is my KubeCon NA 2024 recap. This KubeCon was filled with innovation, insightful sessions, and a vibrant community. Dive into all the highlights!
"Help me help you!" I caught myself shouting at Co-pilot last week. Yes, literally shouting at my AI assistant like Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire. That's when it hit me - this wasn't about the AI at all. This was ...
Learn how to use the Bluesky API to show likes and Bluesky user avatars on your blog posts when you share them on Bluesky.
I’ve been down in an audio plugin rabbit hole lately. More on that in a later blog post. But I just stumbled upon a set of free plugins that might be of interest to you, if you are doing voice ...
“React proponents might claim that React will teach you modern UI, but from what I've seen it barely copes with modern UI. autofocus is broken, custom elements don't work in all but the experimental version, using any "modern" features like ...
When was the last time you felt genuine discovery on the internet? Not algorithmic recommendations. Not SEO-optimized listicles. I mean real, surprising, meaningful discovery. Search is broken but not in the way tech companies think. We don't need better algorithms ...
this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore. I'll add photos and notes and stuff when i'm done. note that the full slides contain…
If, like me, you frequently require the Core Web Vitals colour palete, here it is!
How it started This story began, unexpectedly, on Facebook in a math-focused group. A teacher asked the group to determine the value of: $\lfloor 3^{\sqrt{3}}\rfloor$ without using a calculator. Naturally, the challenge was to prove whether $\lfloor 3^{\sqrt{3}}\rfloor=6$ or $\lfloor ...
Sometimes, it takes a lot of felt pain when building software to realize there's a solution you once overlooked
