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...

Super interesting thoughts about gorillas, super intelligence and where to go from here. yudhanjaya.com/essay/2024-0...

I love this framing. Treat organizational design (and debt) with systems thinking in mind.

Having some slack in the system is important to keep it healthy.

An excellent interview with the founder of Oxide, a company that's building a data center from a blank sheet. Super interesting not just for software engineers but also electrical engineers and people in distributed systems. #pragamaticengineer #oxide pca.st/episode/427a...

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.