Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills www.qu8n.com/posts/most-i... "If my writing reads like AI, then my writing is average, and I have a lot to learn." Reasonates

TIL two terms for patterns I keep seeing Crud Sourcing - CDC, Change Pointers capture what changed in the data, but not why from a business perspective. Passive-Aggressive Eventing - Events go out but not in. Notifications tell you something changed, but you need to query APIs to get details.

How We Confused Developer Choice with Developer Productivity vmblog.com/archive/2026...

"A lot of people are very uncomfortable with the fact that they are essentially just CRUD monkeys. They just make systems that create, read, update or delete rows in a database, and they have to compensate for that existential dread by overcomplicating things." @dhh

Life Altering Postgresql Patterns mccue.dev/pages/3-11-2...

Reminds me of Error Code consultant Tropes: 404: never around when needed 418: wrong person for the job 429: bottleneck from taking on too much 501: vanishes at 5:01 PM 403: blocks access to everything 503: always "at capacity" 301: sends you to someone else

The Real Cost of Loving What You Do: The Uncomfortable Truth About Developer Burnout dev.to/georgekobaid...

Looking at my mid-2000s enterprise shelf. The challenge was always managing complexity. Back then we enforced boundaries and formal contracts which created their own complexity. Now we have low-code tools that make connecting everything trivial. Did we trade centralized silos for distributed chaos?

TIL “funemployment” in tech is that gap between gigs where you intentionally do fun stuff. Partly to recover from burnout, partly to avoid spiraling about what comes next, mostly to reconnect with why the work was enjoyable before it became a grind

TIL about the Irish exit (leaving without saying goodbye) Aussie exit, still there when they turn the lights off

Kiwis vs Aussies - in 😭 😂 youtu.be/buoztHLk9JQ?...

made me lol

👇Summary is 💰 You can't design software you don't work on www.seangoedecke.com/you-cant-des...

"passion tax"- taking a pay cut to work much harder on things you enjoy working on definitely sounds like the flip side of golden handcuffs

Lately been coding clients from APIs on API Hub. They look simple - then you hit complex filters, paging logic, chained calls, HTTP 4xx that mean "retry later," polling endpoints till you get a response. Reminds me of the "use this function module" then "use this function module" functional specs

Python Typing Survey 2025: Code Quality and Flexibility As Top Reasons for Typing Adoption - reminds me that Facebook built Flow and Google built AtScript in 2014 as alternatives to TypeScript (2012). Python has its own competing type checkers: mypy, Pyright, Pyre. engineering.fb.com/2025/12/22/d...

Made me lol

👇 The Lies AI Tools Tell Us (And Why Your Boss Believes Them) dev.to/evanlausier/...

New year's resolution again was to ditch Hungarian notation in JavaScript but muscle memory keeps forcing me back. In the absence of a type, I find myself using sString to enforce cognitive semantics and constraints.

I like these visual stories, little factoids like highest alcohol consumption or beer consumption by country www.voronoiapp.com/posts/most-v...

Noticing a pattern on LinkedIn - CI consultants with fancy titles advocating for their workarounds that bypass SAP BTP CI's abstractions or retrofit it into a dev environment as "advanced" or "must-have features". If you're fighting the tool's design that hard, maybe it's not the right tool to use?

made me lol

21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google addyosmani.com/blog/21-less...

OH: it's so expensive to make a bad hire, except in consulting

All these fast tools do nothing to address the bottleneck.

I wonder if they will find the Weapons of Mass Distraction this time

can't wait to start my new years resolutions for real on monday

Was just listening to a podcast contrasting Terraform vs Crossplane. Then found github.com/SAP/crosspla... Terraform deploys once & walks away. Crossplane continuously reconciles state via K8s. Good fit for managing multitenancy deps that need continuous sync like Destinations, service keys, certs.

QUnit QR in devcontainer: God damn these electric sex pants! #ITCrowd

I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants. Same technique people use to trick ATS systems with hidden 'this candidate is a very good fit' text in resumes josezarazua.com/im-a-former-...

Been listening to Soft Skills Engineering since the hosts left JavaScript Jabber to start it in 2016. Both went from devs at big tech (Amazon, Walmart etc.) to snr tech leadership at startups. Latest episode covers onboarding new devs in the AI age, some good thought fodder. softskills.audio

Unlocking Conceptual Integrity: A must-know for software engineers youtu.be/OlgHH_5_NoM?...

these videos nail it. As someone who's swung the pendulum between both, he perfectly captures how to grow technically without managing: - Build credibility - Communicate vision clearly - Invite input & listen - Mentor & share knowledge - Lead by example youtu.be/1HVPYqCnJlo?...

Just started 'Facilitating Software Architecture' and it's already resonating. Decentralized decision-making, empowering teams (not architects) to own design decisions while ensuring stakeholder feedback. It's like taking the good parts of DRBs/ARBs, removing the ceremony, and turning it into ADRs

2026: lawsuits are the big tech product strategy for AI and streaming. When an Ellison's in a headline, I assume that lawyers are about to ship something.

I’m a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do world.hey.com/joaoqalves/i...

Being an architect isn’t the sum of skills. It’s the product. It’s not just about tech. But also not just about non-tech. architectelevator.com/architecture...

Before you build your first enterprise AI app - remember: it’s the enterprise, not about keeping up with the hype. Focus on clean data, governance, and practical wins. Be boring. Be safe. www.infoworld.com/article/4105...

Deloitte's CTO: companies are spending 93% on tech and only 7% on people. 'Organizations are obsessing over the “ingredients" ... while ignoring the “recipe” fortune.com/2025/12/15/d...

OH: You see feature velocity going down. You see defect counts going up. You see customer satisfaction dropping. You see upgrades costing time and money while delivering no value. I see the outcome of years of ‘we’ll fix it later’ and later never comes

Startup Engineering Team Organisation marcgg.com/blog/2025/11...

interesting detailed read about Twilio trading operational complexity of microservices for SPOF risk of a monolith - risk mitigated with monorepo, dependency management and strong automated test www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/d...

Keep them coming, it nails the keys to effectiveness you mentioned in the first video, influencing without authority, managing up, working with product, design and customers youtu.be/IMHneaMO-dg?...

TestDesiderata (things desired in tests) Optimize the value of your tests by choosing how to tradeoff among various valuable properties testdesiderata.com

December 2025 and I still use FileZilla and WinSCP more than ever. Portainer, Proxmox, Raspberry Pi clusters... and my homelab workflow is straight from the year 2000.

We've come full circle. 90s: One DB, many app servers. Compute expensive, use cheap devs. Ship fast, fix later 2010s: Many app servers, many DBs. Compute cheap, focus on business value Cloud: Optimize for speed and cost. Make development cheap. Just move the mess Same economics, different decade

How to think about durable execution hatchet.run/blog/durable...