How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup(blog.zactownsend.com)

115 points by zt 1 year ago | 140 comments

Belgian politicians would rather risk treason charges than trust engineers(mikhailian.mova.org)

16 points by sam_lowry_ 4 months ago | 5 comments

The days are long but the decades are short (2015)(blog.samaltman.com)

84 points by dbrereton 3 years ago | 54 comments

Social media platforms: what's wrong, and what's next(scottgoci.com)

36 points by eggbrain 1 year ago | 39 comments

Greg (2017)(blog.samaltman.com)

247 points by admp 2 years ago | 112 comments

Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN(jeffgeerling.com)

502 points by ingve 3 years ago | 215 comments

Jeff Geerling blog post explaining how to set up a self-hosted WireGuard VPN using PiVPN to remotely access home network services.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work(seangoedecke.com)

1015 points by dondraper36 1 year ago | 364 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career(seangoedecke.com)

380 points by movis 5 months ago | 624 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog post arguing that because AI use reduces learning on the job, software engineering may no longer be a lifelong career.

How to talk to anyone and why you should(theguardian.com)

448 points by Looky1173 8 months ago | 229 comments

A Guardian lifestyle article on why many people avoid speaking to strangers in public and how learning to do so benefits individuals and society.

Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager(jampa.dev)

514 points by jampa 9 months ago | 133 comments

A blog post by Jampa Uchoa sharing non-obvious lessons learned over ten years working as an engineering manager.

The Enterprise Experience(churchofturing.github.io)

458 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 130 comments

A personal blog post by a software developer reflecting snarkily on one year working at a large enterprise after a decade in startups and SMEs.