Reporting from vacation: Vintage Story is the greatest game ever

The Angular + AI Developer Event is happening tomorrow, September 16! Don't miss your chance to see AI demos, get key updates from the Angular team, and have your questions answered live. Tune in to see what's next: 🔗 youtube.com/live/uFdxw4S...

Reliability is sort of like a stomachache. It’s hard for people to really appreciate not having issues until you have issues.

i once tried “strong opinions, weekly held” as a joke but half the readers didn’t notice the spelling and the other half must’ve thought i can’t spell

@angular.dev summer update: blog.angular.dev/angular-summ... I couldn't believe how many new things the team released since v20 in May! Thanks @marktechson.com for writing this amazing update with me! The whole team did such an amazing job in delivering big and small things!

Getting flowers from friends makes my day ❤️

One of the biggest adjustments I see new leaders going through is the amount of context shifting. It’s very frustrating! Where your work used to allow for flow state, you need to stay interrupt driven so your staff can stay focused. Leaders should be helpers.

Needed to update my headshots, my old ones were… old. The lovely Julie Harris Photography did a great job! ❤️

The book Upstream by Dan Heath is worth a read (author of Switch and Made to Stick) The premise is thinking upstream to solve systemic issues to avoid “problem blindness” (when you can’t see something right in front of you because you’re so used to the problem) I love systems thinking.

One tangible problem with AI hype is that there is a degree of provocative hypothesis that is necessary in order for people to think a little differently about old problems. But then the hype goes so far that it becomes detached from technical reality, and thus, disqualifies itself.

I always have to remind myself that I’m a better leader when I exercise. I think more clearly, have more cycles to care for others. For me, exercise is even more about mental health than physical.

Interested in Signals? Enjoy learning by reading code? Check out github.com/jkup/learn-s...

➡️ If you're Staff level and you're interested in/have experience in Apple technologies, we're looking for someone in Core: www.google.com/about/career...

Sundays should be followed by Sunday #2

🕵️‍♀️ Context Inspector Tiny tool that helps you inspect your agent's context and find what changed between calls Find how to use it on my GitHub github.com/mgechev/cont...

We got a box of ripe summmertime fresh from the farm peaches from a fundraiser. Dear lord. I have eaten 3 today so far. I’m probably not done! 🍑

Mekka has the best posts

part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"

When it doesn't, it's worth paying attention to whether their unaccountability is structural or individual.

The amazing thing about taking accountability is that it typically begets others taking accountability for their fair share too.

JS Conf US is happening again! This is a big deal, it has not occurred for some time. I'm thrilled to keynote and speak alongside folks I deeply admire: @devdevcharlie.com @evanyou.me @aysegul.bsky.social, more My talk is on fundamentals! We'll go deep into plaforms and systems, using my drawings

- work from office at home - dog wants to come in and curl up in the corner during meetings - have an intense meeting where someone is pouring their heart out to you - dog finds this is the perfect time to loudly lick themselves - report dog to HR

Vite: The Documentary premieres October 9th at @viteconf.org in Amsterdam ⚡ youtu.be/46fe5AFc0tY

Raise your hand if you have kpop demon hunters stuck in your head

Empathy *has* to be taught. Humans come with a pretty blank slate, mentally. Most of our socialization is taught and conditioned; both good and bad

True Intelligence is in humanity.

I'll write a book called "The AI Leader" and in it, I'll just talk about leading people with empathy. "Trick" people into reading the thing that they actually need to learn.

I've been working on learning French. 🇫🇷🇨🇦 As someone who has failed at learning languages a lot, I went in with a lot of apprehension. This time is a lot better! One reason is that I'm using spaced repetition. I'd read about it before, but this comic from Nicky Case is fantastic: ncase.me/remember/

The hardest problems in computer science are cache invalidation and printers

Timeline cleanse

A pattern I see: an individual human is thoughtful and capable of nuanced thinking, but when we’re in packs, we get very binary.

The thing most people look for in leadership are absolute rules that they can apply “do this, not that” style. The truth is, leadership is thinking in systems. Org health and productivity are related. Org change isn’t just moving TO something, it’s FROM-TO, and so on. Consider the whole system.

Keep calm and be a carry on

People call me short, but I prefer “travel-sized”

In parenting, management, friendship, and relationships, people say “just showing up is the biggest part of it“ This is true! They also don’t mention how hard it is to consistently show up for everything.

I know of a few Director/Senior Director of Engineering roles open. Knowledge of Web Frameworks, good awareness of AI tools. Please let me know if you’re interested! Must have experience at these levels or above to qualify. ⭐️

when the phones were tethered, the people were free

One of the great failures of the human mind is to not value security until something breaks

This looks interesting: XMCP, a framework for quickly building MCP servers with TS, in just a /tools directory xmcp.dev

After a falling tree branch paralyzed him, Google software engineer Sasha Blair-Goldensohn began helping people with disabilities navigate their cities and neighborhoods.

The last decades of social media have pushed people to be specialized, one persona/identity. In the book Range, they discuss how innovation happens when people cross fields of study. This makes sense, people are multifaceted and applying paradigms across disciplines helps us think differently!

We are in such a weird place where caring about other people is political.

It’s my wonderful husband, @dizzyd.esq’s birthday! 🎂 Dizzy is kind, thoughtful, and a total smartie 🤓 Please join me in wishing him a good one!

My dotJS talk is live! The Wind and the Waves: Formations of Frameworks from the epicenter. This is the last time I will give that talk, it's about how all frameworks are made and learn from one another, with focus on Angular: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsCp...

If you’re sick of doomscrolling, might I suggest doing something creative in flow state?

Spent the morning with some friends and now I'm optimizing systems in Minecraft, sitting on the couch whispering to myself "I'm a titan of industry"

I’m playing a gross game with my dog, called “why are you wet” This is a variant on a game I used to play with my kids when they were young called “why am I sticky”

🚂 I've been playing survival Minecraft for a couple of months now, I've made ae2 systems, a whole working train network, and doing a bit of building as well I just finished one of my train stations: