Often we prioritize work only on one of these axes: reach, impact, confidnce and effort. We must balance all of them to have the best possible outcome.

A DDoS is a black swan. A change you didn't think through is an unforced error. Only one of those is worth measuring. blog.migueldavid.eu/posts/unforc...

We just crossed 1 Million posts created through Buffer's API! 🎉 We built a live metrics page where you can watch it happen: time to first API call, clients created, ideas & posts created, & how people are using our MCP server across Claude, ChatGPT, & more. 🔗 Take a look: buffer.com/api-metrics

I really like Will Larsons writing and thinking. But this excerpt, logical when it was written, feels on its head with AI now. I see more engineers per manager, and broader engineers.

I wrote a new blog post! Emotions work like a pressure system. Pressure isn't the enemy, blockage is. Read how a burst pipe, my own anger, and software's "load shedding" taught me about releasing pressure before you snap.

Folks ask me if I like living in Belgium. 🇧🇪 What I can say is that it’s transforming me. I’m becoming more of a liberal (in the economics sense) due to the ridiculously complex and overweight taxation system. I’m wearing t-shirts at 18C because June…

This one left me thinking. Is it because we connect with people and we have cold distance to products? Because we want more data points than just feedback with people? What do you think?

Be more independent, spend less time doing dependency upgrades work and worrying about where they will open up a security nightmare.

Went to a gym (strength) class for the first time in years. Pray for me tomorrow 😂

The advice comes from real estate management, but applies to all roles really. The gap between now and your (daily/weekly/life) goal, is where your work should focus on.

What has @buffer to do with a medieval fair beyond my water cup 😂? Well, medieval fairs used to be the social media of the time. Times have changed. Now we also meet online, enter @buffer! In a couple of days we’ll announce something cool that enables everyone and their agents to share more ideas.

AI is eliminating the coordination tasks that justified non-technical engineering managers, while flattened orgs demand leaders who can provide immediate technical insights rather than just relay information. leaddev.com/career-devel...

As teams and orgs scale, so should conversations.

A great post by new EM colleague about how to help your manager help you. Excellent advice. Most of it I failed to do many times before 🙈

If everyone can deploy code, who’s responsible for production? Read more: blog.incrementalforgetting.tech/p/when-every... #DevOps #SRE

Leverage comes from the parts you understand. Risk comes from the parts you don't.

It’s all fun and games until you have skin in the game and a tight deadline.

I need to remind myself of this almost daily 😅

Happy European Union 🇪🇺 day. After centuries of hating and killing each other, we’ve been together for 33 years in a democratic project that unites while seeing (and celebrating) the differences among us. 🎉

It’s been one of those weeks…

Yes, Claude. You got me. 😂

If you had a good day, congratulations 🎈 If you had a bad one, here’s a tiny castle for you. Drawing by the amazing Johanna Basford.

take a while to warm up. Be it in the morning 🥱, to new challenges 🚶, or to new people 👥. To use a metaphor, Iv’ve always been more of a long distance runner than a sprinter 🏃‍♂️. And yet, last week I felt an instant click with the whole @buffer.com …

Having a vision/direction is more important today (with AI) than ever.

The close door button and what it actually means.

Greetings from Barcelona! 🇪🇸 We're 3 days into our 2026 Buffer retreat — 79 of us, from 24 countries, gathered at Châteauform' Campus La Mola. Most of us meeting in person for the first time after months (or years!) of seeing each other through screens. 💙

It’s day one. All over again. There’s an interesting paradox when joining a new company. You were hired because you’re an expert in your field, but at the same time you find yourself being a beginner in the company. You don’t know people’s names, their relationships, the messages you need to be

Impact log. Very useful tool.

TIL that brew has an auto update command. Goodbye cronjobs to try to keep up with Claude releases. :D # Install the tap brew tap homebrew/autoupdate # Start auto-updating every 12 hours (43200 seconds), including casks and cleanup brew autoupdate start 43200 --upgrade --cleanup --greedy

Managers kill productivity by onboarding contractors like employees. While employees have months to ramp up, contractors lose time for each week of poor onboarding. Set access and concrete tasks on day one. leaddev.com/communicatio...

The "Claude Code Engineer" orchestrates AI code instead of writing it, working in parallel git worktrees. The bottleneck shifts from fast-typing to defining work well. QA outranks coding; Platform Eng becomes toolsmiths. rendiment.io/engineering/...

AI is Killing B2B SaaS. Unless they become Systems of Record platforms that can be easily built upon reliably and leverage their data moat. nmn.gl/blog/ai-kill...

AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f...

Day 2 at @buffer and I got this nice swag. Way to feel welcomed! 🥰

TIL that for historical reasons Gare du Midi in Brussels has nothing to do with “middle” or “center” but with Midi in France which is … in the South. Now I have to sed s/Midi/Sud/ .

Want to hear what’s going on in many EM’s minds right now with the wave of AI? Read this honest and balanced experience: mediations.candost.blog/p/mediations...

Start today. The perfect conditions will never arrive.

We are fast approaching a reality where human developers and AI agents work together around the same things. Workflows must be adapted to ensure that collaboration adds value to the humans instead of creating friction and noise. leaddev.com/ai/designing...

Find Your Perfect Hobby - HobbyFinder hobby.catone.dev

How to build engineering teams in the AI era leaddev.com/communicatio...

For the past few months I've evolved a personal harness for Claude Code. But the models keep advancing so my harness keeps evolving and I didn't want to write something out of date the next day. Well, Claude is happy to write AND maintain for me. So here is my WIP-always ephemeral blog post about my

How does Docusign have 7,000 employees? www.readtrung.com/p/how-does-d...

"If you only have goals for one dimension or aspect of life, when you're having a hard time in that area you can feel crushed. If you have multiple dimensions of life you're focusing on with clear goals and progress, you can set yourself up to always be winning in some area." - Joel Gascoigne

humanwhocodes.com/blog/2026/01... - AI is rapidly shifting software engineers from coders to orchestrators of autonomous agents, with IDEs and workflows reorganized around managing multiple coding agents rather than editing code directly, likely becoming mainstream by ~2028. ...

buff.ly/4yctcWF tl;dr - Swarms can ship big, working systems that are structurally junk drawers — duplicate libs, inconsistent patterns, no coherent architectural choices, just whatever happened to compile and pass tests. ...

Any senior engineer will tell you that less code is better than more, but until now that was hard to prove. With AI being paid by the token and context windows being a limiter, compaction is now a quantifiable strategy. aicoding.leaflet.pub/3may5niwoyk2n

Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications huyenchip.com//2025/01/16/...

On why the SRE role will become more important with AI coding swizec.com/blog/the-fut...