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This is another Wally-themed episode my friend. Looks like I’m stuck on these, but you do remember those books, right? Where’s Wally? Or ...
Some of us drilled it, some tried it, some lived it. All of us lost — because in this case, the future was predestined.
* The asterisk is doing serious heavy lifting in the title. It usually does. But this time, it’s carrying an entire argument.
The Humble Bundle team has one of the most amazing deals in recent memory, and this one comes “right on time.” With current GenAI tooling, code synthesis will leave human hands, but Product Engineering will...
Humble Tech Book Bundle: Software Architecture 2026 by O'Reilly
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Are you still looking for Wallys in your code? Reviewing code leveraging GenAI changes the process. The review shifts left to the developer and the agent that produced the code, while the developer still owns...
Are You Still Looking for Wallys in Your Code?
This is another Wally-themed episode my friend. Looks like I’m stuck on these, but you do remember those books, right? Where’s Wally? Or Waldo, depending on ...
Direction With Intent
Can’t recommend enough any conversation with Charity Majors. This one is mostly IT zeitgeist coffee talk but tackles some of my favourite topics atm. Btw, Charity is that front-line commando that you would love to...
Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors
In 2025, it was rational to be skeptical about AI, but in 2026 it’s clear that AI is changing all of the industry, and there’s less and less place for skepti...
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After attending Cloudflare’s Lisbon Engineering Meetup on using the Rust programming language with Cloudflare Workers, I felt a familiar sense of FOMO. Once again, I was reminded that I knew nothin...
After a few projects and some nasty burns, eventually, any engineer understands that the code doesn’t care. It will compile, or it will be interpreted, it will run, and it will fail or succeed, but...
The Diderot Effect is an application of belief reinforcement on a self-identity stereotype within the context of consumption.