Want to understand the basics behind how to build a GenAI platform? This is the best blog post I've seen. huyenchip.com/2024/07/25/g...

Hundreds of people inside. A line outside before the talk starts. #fosdem databases track is 🔥

I’m at #fosdem today and boy it’s overwhelming. The interest in open source is definitely alive and kicking. Also, it’s refreshing coming to a conference where people do t want to sell you stuff, just ideas and projects and collaboration.

The Claude Code stickers arrived 😁 @anthropic.com #fanboy

Just bought myself a late Christmas gift, thanks to @pragprog.com’s end of year discount. Next to read: - Become and Effective Engineering Manager by James Stanier - Practical Ways to Manage Yourself and Manage your Job Search by @jrothman.com 🎅😁

Celebrating 40 years of Spain & Portugal in the EU! 🇪🇸🇵🇹 Four decades of unprecedented progress: boosting investments, democracy, and innovation. They made the EU richer; we made them stronger. A crucial part of our story. Progress. Together. 🇪🇺

ssh tiny.christmas a global christmas carol in the terminal :)

@rands.bsky.social I like the aesthetics of randsinrepose.com and told so to ChatGPT. I asked what stack the website was likely using. This was the response. I thought you might enjoy it. :)

@kstewart.bsky.social hey Kevin. It’s that time of the year. 😁 As the most well read person of technical books I know and with the best recommendations, what was your top 5 in 2025? Hope you’re well. Thanks! 🙏

I built Speakeasy because I read a lot and macOS makes text-to-speech harder than it needs to be. Started with a Python prototype using Piper TTS. The voices were excellent. The app was ugly. So I rewrote it in Swift. Turns out macOS already ships with decent voices. Samantha and Alex sound ...

I have very little engagement on what I post here on Bluesky, so I’m going to try out a month of the Twitter/X hellscape of today to compare. Wish me ~luck~ mental sanity.

If you're looking for a spy's TV series to watch this Christmas, I recommend the Black Doves. British spies, great dialogues, on Netflix.

Karpathy makes the case that AI moves us from Specification to Verification. Interesting take.

You are selling the value to the user, not the effort you put into it. Something I need to regularly remind myself of.

EM skills irl: Me, negotiating with my 7yo about how many of pages she has to complete tonight: "Why don't you finish one page and see how long it takes, and we'll circle back on our total estimate at that time"

“Inside Cursor” joincolossus.com/article/insi.... Wow. Am I the only one seeing all the red flags in how Cursor (the company) operates, even as they are draped in “this is the way” clothes?

Don't underestimate the power of someone believing in you.

Buffer, a company I’ve been following (and using) for years just hit 15 years. It’s a huge feat! Some of the insights from the CEO Joel Gascoigne below are gold. 👇

@candost wrote a nice piece on how to approach large projects: Plan Slow, Act Fast candost.blog/plan-slow-ac.... I agree with the majority of it. My most successful engineers have taken time at the start of the project to do research/POCs before diving into full implementation. A thing that I [1/2]

How to Write with Substance (short article, full of good ideas) www.helpscout.com/blog/writing...

[With AI] Code like a surgeon. "When I sit down for a work session, I want to feel like a surgeon walking into a prepped operating room. Everything is ready for me to do what I’m good at."

Automation can be liberating.

I built an NBA game recommender with Claude Code in 40 hours over 2.5 days Learned: AI gets you to 80% fast, but that last 19% is still debugging HTTP at 2am, and I make terrible cost/benefit decisions. It works though! Have a read or try: migueldavid.eu/posts/buildi...

Keeping up with AI's rapid evolution as a parent is challenging. To stay informed, I rely on Birgitta Bockeler's grounded insights, unlike the AI providers who want to sell something. leaddev.com/technical-di...

C'est moi

@buffer.com I've been a fan and user for many years, but this community new feature is awesome. Thanks for building it.

Good podcast episode with Laura Tacho from DX about AI ROI

Councils of agents: group thinking with LLMs - a great idea from James Stanier

Tackle problems early on. It’s easier.

@brusselsairlines.bsky.social cancelling a 1h30 flight from Berlin to your base in Brussels Zaventem hours before the flight during the night and not even warning via your app, is not ok. Also not ok, rerouting me to Cologne, then Munich and only then Brussels with 3 different carriers. 😖

I wrote a very short fiction piece this morning. I hope you enjoy it. migueldavid.eu/posts/ubiqui...

Very interesting talk from James Barnes about the principles on how to best manage engineering teams in 2025.

“Focus [and alignment] beats speed”.

First day of @leaddev.com Berlin. Excited to learn and meet other Engineering leaders. 🙂

Very rambley talk, but hitting all the interesting spots of managing databases without slowing down the developers

Something that has been on my mind a lot over the last few months is the near and medium-future impact of AI on jobs. Here is a well thought out podcast episode on “How not to lose your job to AI” pca.st/episode/0363...

“If you’re the one leading every single meeting, you’re either inexperienced, insecure, or haven’t been shown how to be a real manager yet.”

The Next Abstraction

Bruges

Bruges

Bruges

On the way to Ostende.

Pumpkins in the Fall.

The park in the morning

The park in the morning

When you should keep feedback to yourself. Spicy take but also thought provoking one.

7 patterns for AI agents datalearningscience.com/p/core-agent...

If you ever wonder whether the law of entropy is actually true, just look at the plastic container variety in your house. 🙈

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media? Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is. To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.