Signs you’re heading toward developer burnout: you dread simple tickets, tiny bugs feel huge, you keep working late but ship less, and hobbies disappear. I’ve been there. The turning point wasn’t a new tool, it was permission to slow down and reset. You don’t have to earn rest with exhaustion.

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My kindle is officially dead! I love my kindle, I think it's the oldest device I own, being almost 10 years old now, the plastic was already sticky, probably not that healthy to touch, but it was still working amazingly! But this weekend took a fall, and now it's gone! Good bye old friend!

Let’s be honest: AI is flooding the internet with content. Every search, every feed, every community is starting to feel… the same. Recycled insights. Rewritten posts. Infinite noise. As a developer I feel it, but again, sometimes I'm part of the problem too.

I know I'm late to the game, but... what in the world? since when PewDiePie is so legitimately "cool" and kicking ass in YT as a total nerd? This guy is killing it! It really shows the power of having a goal in mind, focus, and time to go all in on something!

Year-end reviews are around the corner — quick reminder: If you’re using AI to write your feedback… just don’t. Honestly, I’d rather get the prompt you gave the AI than the polished version. That’s where your real judgment, examples, and intent live.

I learned this the hard way. For years, I’d wake up, grab coffee, open my laptop… and spend 30 minutes deciding what to do. By the time I started working, my brain was already tired from negotiating priorities. Now I follow a simple loop:

One of the most powerful tools in your career isn’t a framework, a process, or an AI model. It’s perspective. “Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.” - Wayne W. Dyer

Over the years, I’ve highlighted hundreds of passages from books, articles, and newsletters. But they were scattered everywhere: 📚 Kindle highlights 📬 Email newsletter snippets 🧾 Random web clippings 👇🧵

Decisions aren’t permanent. Very few are true trapdoors. Try something new: a role, a path, a challenge. You can always course-correct. (Yes, even going from engineering → management → engineering.)

📝 Apple Notes just works for me It’s not perfect. It’s not the most advanced tool out there. But it’s the one I keep coming back to. I’ve tried all kinds of note-taking systems and fancy apps. They’re powerful, but I end up spending more time organizing than thinking.

I’ve been really lucky in my career. Right place, right time, right people, more than once. A lot of the best things that happened to me weren’t fully in my control. I just tried to be ready when luck showed up. Still grateful for all of it.

Most companies treat Developer Relations like marketing with code. But real #DevRel sits at the intersection of people, product, and purpose. Over the years, I’ve realized great DevRel programs stand on three pillars. 🧵👇

People, not jobs, last forever. You’ll change roles and companies many times. That’s normal. But the relationships you build along the way will follow you your entire career. Connect with people you truly value. Great relationships compound just like skills do.

Don’t stay comfortable for too long. Comfort feels good, but it quietly stalls growth. Growth compounds, and every year you play it safe, you’re giving up future momentum. Stretch. Learn. Move before you have to.

💡 Sleep on it. Your content will thank you. I used to think great content was all about flow: get the idea, write it fast, ship it. But over the years (and hundreds of posts later), I’ve learned something different: Your best content often shows up the day after you write it. Here’s why 👇

f your impact disappears when you stop coding, you’re probably still at Senior. If your systems keep helping others succeed when you’re away, you’re operating at Staff.

Learn everywhere you go. But don’t stay where you aren’t valued. The best fit isn’t luck. It’s alignment. When your values match the company’s, everything clicks. Until you find that place, keep learning deliberately. Every stop teaches you something for the next one.

🗓️ If it’s not on my calendar or ToDo, it won’t get done. That’s the rule I live by. As developers (and especially as managers or advocates), our time gets pulled in a dozen directions, from code, reviews, content, meetings, mentorship, learning, life, etc.

Developers don’t want ads. They want answers. They want insight. They want to learn something that makes them better. That’s why the best dev marketing doesn’t look like marketing at all. It looks like teaching.

OpenAI just rolled out something that might quietly reshape how we build with AI, not just how we chat with it. It’s called Workflows (also known as AgentKit), and it’s essentially a toolkit for creating agents that can think, act, and connect to your world.

🚀 Use AI to validate your CV like an HR system would Most developers (and even senior engineers) underestimate how much hiring pipelines rely on ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems). The automated filters that decide whether your resume even gets seen by a human. Here’s the thing: 👇🧵

Senior vs. Staff isn’t “more of the same.” Senior: ✅ Delivers complex projects ✅ Raises team quality ✅ Mentors peers Staff: 🚀 Chooses the right org-level problems 🚀 Creates leverage through systems & standards 🚀 Multiplies outcomes across teams

🚀 Small teams ship faster. It’s not just a cliche. I’ve seen it play out over and over. Why? 👇🧵

🚀 #Learning compounds like interest. You don’t need to master a new language, framework, or leadership skill overnight. You just need to get a little bit better today than you were yesterday. 👇🧵

Take control over your AI Agents identity and security with Auth0 for AI Agents. In a nutshell, here's what you can do: 👇🧵

⚡️ You can’t stay in beast mode all day. #Productivity doesn’t work like that. It comes in bursts. Those bursts are when the big things happen:

When I was a Senior Engineer, success meant finishing my features and mentoring teammates. When I started aiming for Staff, I learned that success looks completely different: 👇🧵

OpenAI just shipped a big one: 🛒 Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT. The interesting part isn’t just buying socks in chat. It’s the **Agentic Commerce Protocol**, an open standard (built with Stripe) that any merchant or dev can plug into with a few lines of code. Think about it: 👇

One of the most strategic (if under-discussed) parts of the Auth0/Okta story coming out of #Oktane is Cross App Access (XAA). A new protocol that extends OAuth to govern agent-to-app & app-to-app interactions.

Three myths that make new Engineering Managers fail with senior engineers: 👇🧵

Had a fantastic #Oktane here in Vegas! Learned a lot about securing AI agents. I’ll be sharing everything I learned and more in the next few days! Sometimes what happens in Vegas, doesn’t need to stay in Vegas 😉

Most developers don’t notice burnout until it’s too late. Here are 5 practical ways to spot it early (and act): 🧵👇

👉 Learn to say No. Early in my career, I thought saying yes was the way forward. “Yes, I can do that.” “Yes, I’ll stay late.” “Yes, I’ll take that extra project.” It worked… for a while.

Maybe the lack of sleep is affecting me, but something in me wants to start writing a book on developer burn out. Can anyone convince me not to? 🤣

**Your career won’t stall because of lack of technical skills. It will stall because of lack of visibility.** Most senior engineers hit a point where coding skills are no longer the differentiator. 👇🧵

Long-term roadmaps are dead. The market moves faster than ever. AI reshapes workflows overnight. By Q3, your roadmap is already fiction. Keep the vision. Keep short-term plans. Kill the roadmap. 👉 Agree or too radical?

Hacktoberfest used to be about learning & collaboration. This year I worry it could turn into an AI disaster, flooded with auto-generated PRs nobody wrote. AI helps, but contribution isn't copy-paste. Open source needs context, care, and responsibility. Will AI hurt or help Hacktoberfest?

My 7-year-old: "Dad, can I play Minecraft?" Me: "Sure… but first, let me show you how to code it yourself!" Him: 👀 "Wait… what?" Seems like JavaScript is still not as cool as Creepers. Any parents/devs cracked this one? Or should I just join him building Redstone mob farms? 😅

Exactly 6 months ago, Anthropic's CEO said "AI will be writing 90% of the code software developers were in charge of..." Time's up, have 90% of the developers been replaced already? Headlines like these are just sensationalist propaganda to justify ridiculously high valuations.

Here's how people is using ChatGPT. A new research paper published by OpenAI's Economic Research and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) analyzes how people has been using ChatGPT. Here are the results:

Friday rap, by ChatGPT: _You came for the paycheck, not the craft, a mercenary in borrowed stacks. Chasing hype, chasing trends, but you’ll be gone when the bubble ends. Code without love is brittle and cheap, you’ll ship fast garbage, then fall asleep._

“English is the new programming language.” I don’t buy it. Take colors as an example: Vibe coder: “Add a purple button.” Vibe coder: “Hmm, make it lighter.” Vibe coder: “Less purple.” Vibe coder: “No, not like that. More blue-ish but still purple.” A few moments later…

The ultimate goal of DevRel isn’t content, conferences, or swag. It’s simple: 👉 Help developers succeed. If they get to “hello world” fast, find answers when stuck, and feel heard when giving feedback. Adoption follows. Everything else is just a tool to get there.

I’ve been going down the smart home rabbit hole for my office. All Matter over Thread, with Apple Home as the hub. It's been an interesting and somewhat challenging journey, and I'm loving it! What's your experience with smart home tech? Should I post more about it?

Hacktoberfest isn’t about free T-shirts. It’s about learning. Contribute. Read code. Write tests. Get reviews. AI can help with boilerplate, but don’t let it rob you of the real value: building skills + real world value with open source. #Hacktoberfest #opensource

Some of the best coding practices double as leadership practices. See if you agree — are these dev habits or leadership habits?

If you use AI to do the work for you, you’re missing the point. AI isn’t here to replace your thinking. It’s here to speed up your process.

Not every promotion comes with a new title or a pay raise. Some happen quietly, without recognition. These are often called “invisible promotions.” 🧵👇

Ever notice how some work energizes you, while other work quietly drains you? That’s the difference between **build energy** and **maintain energy**. 🧵👇