Growing as Makers • Jul 23, 2026 Who Decides What’s Worth Building? Growing Judgment Work Across the Team Agentic engineering is changing the shape of how software teams work, and in doing so, is raising the value of judgment work.
AI for Developers • Jul 22, 2026 Grep Is 10,000x Faster Than Your Eyeballs — But You Can Still See AI reads code better than humans can, and Grep is 10,000 times faster than human eyeballs! What do we find joy and pride in now?
Development Practices • Jul 21, 2026 Error Handling vs. Hiding Errors It's easy to gloss over error handling. Until something actually goes wrong, it's easier to log something vague and return success anyway.
AI for Developers • Jul 20, 2026 Here’s How We’re Using AI Analysis in Developer Tooling The insight isn't just about adding AI analysis to your tooling. It's about deliberating on what problem you're asking it to solve.
Artificial Intelligence • Jul 19, 2026 A Skeptic at AI Engineers’ World Fair I attended the AI Engineers’ World Fair 2026 with an open mind. I encountered a healthy mix of new ideas and cause for concern.
Personal Optimization • Jul 18, 2026 Build Alignment Using a Product Requirements Document The PRD is the fastest way I have found to learn whether a group actually agrees, while it is still cheap to find out when it does not.
Extracurricular Activities • Jul 17, 2026 How I Build My Ubuntu 26.04 Cloud-Init Template for Proxmox I run a few Ubuntu virtual machines in Proxmox. Here's how to make a template using the recently released Ubuntu 26.04 cloud-init template.
AI for Designers • Jul 16, 2026 Solution-First UX Design: Using AI to Solve Problems UX work—research, understanding, problem framing—is essential before creating a solution. But, now we’re now working alongside AI.
Personal Optimization • Jul 15, 2026 How I’m Going Analog at My Tech Job: My Favorite Offline Tools Here's my in-office analog setup. I'll share my favorite offline tools and how I use each. I'll also share my favorite stationery shops.
Development Practices • Jul 14, 2026 Give Me Every Nth Row: Reproducible Sampling in SQL Server and EF Core For a recent project, I needed a small, representative sample of a large table. Here's the sampling approach I landed on.
The Software Life • Jul 13, 2026 How to Host a Static Site on AWS for the Price of a Domain If you've ever wondered what it looks like to host a static site on AWS, this guide is for you. AWS experience helps but isn't required.
Culture • Jul 12, 2026 The Story Behind Our Office Mural: A Conversation with Muralist Bella Dearr As our Raleigh office settled into its new space, we decided to bring in Bella of Dearr Bella Designs to paint a mural in our entry.
