Joel Martinez
@joelmartinez.codecube.net
Principal Software Engineering Manager at @microsoft.com (via #xamarin), working on https://startups.microsoft.com. Founded @onetug.org. #eldermillenial 🇺🇸 🇩🇴
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Reposted by Joel Martinez
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
November 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
Anyone got a Sora invite you’re dying to give away? 😅
October 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Anyone got a Sora invite you’re dying to give away? 😅
Reposted by Joel Martinez
I think something democracy has never faced before is a populace with years and years of algorithmically supercharged perceptions of “the other side”
September 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I think something democracy has never faced before is a populace with years and years of algorithmically supercharged perceptions of “the other side”
To be honest though ... ChatGPT's sycophancy is helping democratize access to that multi-layered-bubble of agreeable yes-men 😅
People really don't understand how warped the truly rich are.
They exist in a multi-layered-bubble of sycophants, each paid half a million dollars a year to keep the consequences of that super-rich person's failures and the word "no" from their ears.
They are flying blind with no real feedback.
They exist in a multi-layered-bubble of sycophants, each paid half a million dollars a year to keep the consequences of that super-rich person's failures and the word "no" from their ears.
They are flying blind with no real feedback.
September 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
To be honest though ... ChatGPT's sycophancy is helping democratize access to that multi-layered-bubble of agreeable yes-men 😅
Ever worked with a "Cowboy Coder"? Or perhaps, you yourself are that gun-slingin' cowpoke! What works in a smaller team or startup, can eventually become a liability as a team grows if not managed correctly.
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Cowboy Coders and the Shift to Structure - How Teams Grow
Probably every engineer will have worked with that one person who thrives in the chaos. A system breaks, customers are blocked, and before anyone else has even read the incident report, they’re alr...
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September 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ever worked with a "Cowboy Coder"? Or perhaps, you yourself are that gun-slingin' cowpoke! What works in a smaller team or startup, can eventually become a liability as a team grows if not managed correctly.
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A recent tweet by my friend got me thinking about the many winding paths I’ve been down over the course of my career … starting up a new series on my blog to write about it :)
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The Accidental Path
There’s a book called Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned that my friend Matt Mazur recently tweeted about. He wrote:
“It’s a risky strategy because the most likely outcome is you explore and discover...
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September 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A recent tweet by my friend got me thinking about the many winding paths I’ve been down over the course of my career … starting up a new series on my blog to write about it :)
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Reposted by Joel Martinez
Yep. Almost all of history from global warming, mass migration, 9/11 and the rise of Russia is downstream of not aggressively pursuing nuclear power. When you look at the body count of misinformation, misinformation about nuclear power ranks near the top.
"Hey what if humanity had infinite energy in the 70's instead of inventing global ecocide and dictatorial petrostates and century-long populous displacement"
September 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Yep. Almost all of history from global warming, mass migration, 9/11 and the rise of Russia is downstream of not aggressively pursuing nuclear power. When you look at the body count of misinformation, misinformation about nuclear power ranks near the top.
Does your team "move fast and break things"? Or do you slow down and find/fix the root cause every time? As always, the right answer is the classic "it depends", and each approach comes with its own pros and cons.
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Moving Fast vs Root Cause Culture - How Teams Grow
“Move fast and break things.”
The phrase came out of Facebook’s early days and quickly became a shorthand mantra across the industry. It’s catchy, it feels daring, and it captures a mindset that va...
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August 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Does your team "move fast and break things"? Or do you slow down and find/fix the root cause every time? As always, the right answer is the classic "it depends", and each approach comes with its own pros and cons.
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As coding agents get more capable, it seems like they’re using more and more compute to handle longer and more complex tasks. Devs will increasingly have to start rationing where they do their AI thinking to avoid burning through their credits.
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Tiered Thinking in the Age of AI
Not too long ago, everyone was wondering whether $20 a month for an AI coding tool was worth it. Today, devs are easily blowing past $200 worth of capacity in a single billing cycle, and it’s easy ...
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August 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
As coding agents get more capable, it seems like they’re using more and more compute to handle longer and more complex tasks. Devs will increasingly have to start rationing where they do their AI thinking to avoid burning through their credits.
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Finally got this working ... this had been on my personal backlog for quite some time, and so now I can embed timelines in my blog posts 📆
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Timelines
I've been writing recently about posts being worthless in the AI era, and explored different ways of navigating content...
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August 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Finally got this working ... this had been on my personal backlog for quite some time, and so now I can embed timelines in my blog posts 📆
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I got a Mountain Dew Baja Midnight, out of curiosity… I’ve made a huge mistake
August 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I got a Mountain Dew Baja Midnight, out of curiosity… I’ve made a huge mistake
Has "Agile" ever actually worked for anyone? 😅 new blog post where I'm just kind of retrospecting across the last 25 years
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Why Agile So Often Falls Short
I first experienced “agile” back in 2004 when I started working at what was then called EA Tiburon. The agile manifesto was still a relatively new concept and I was so excited to be a part of worki...
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August 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Has "Agile" ever actually worked for anyone? 😅 new blog post where I'm just kind of retrospecting across the last 25 years
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So ... is this the reference song that Soda Pop was based on in #KPOPDEMONHUNTERS?
open.spotify.com/track/1mWdTe...
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Butter
BTS · Butter (Hotter, Sweeter, Cooler) · Song · 2021
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August 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
So ... is this the reference song that Soda Pop was based on in #KPOPDEMONHUNTERS?
open.spotify.com/track/1mWdTe...
open.spotify.com/track/1mWdTe...
Had a fun time working on a new github action for @wildernesslabs.bsky.social's Chloroplast (a static site generator for writing and publishing docs). Did a quick writeup on it in my blog:
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Chloroplast – A .NET Static Site Generator for Docs
“When I ask myself ‘what would have the most impact today?’ I sit down and write documentation.” — Miguel de Icaza Documentation has been a big part of my career; working on Microsoft Learn, as the...
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August 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Had a fun time working on a new github action for @wildernesslabs.bsky.social's Chloroplast (a static site generator for writing and publishing docs). Did a quick writeup on it in my blog:
codecube.net/2025/8/chlor...
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People on social media should remember that propaganda doesn’t always need to be political in nature … (try to) know when you’re being manipulated
August 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
People on social media should remember that propaganda doesn’t always need to be political in nature … (try to) know when you’re being manipulated
How many engineers have heard their leadership say, "why do things take so long to ship these days?" ... there's probably a bunch of answers to that, not the least of which is that the things that work for a small team, cause pain for larger teams.
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How You Ship Matters
When you look at how teams ship software, two extremes pop into view....
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August 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
How many engineers have heard their leadership say, "why do things take so long to ship these days?" ... there's probably a bunch of answers to that, not the least of which is that the things that work for a small team, cause pain for larger teams.
codecube.net/2025/8/team-...
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Reposted by Joel Martinez
I got into tech because it’s fun to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together — or rearrange the parts into something brand new. it definitely feels like the new ethos is “bro why bother to learn? caring about that stuff is cringe, just go FAST bro” and that bums me out
the main thing that makes me uneasy about llms is the cultural backdrop of global war on knowledge. the war on knowledge isn’t new but now it’s cheered on from tech too. tools for thought pivoted to slot machines because that’s what people want. “how things work” is buried under opaque indirections
August 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I got into tech because it’s fun to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together — or rearrange the parts into something brand new. it definitely feels like the new ethos is “bro why bother to learn? caring about that stuff is cringe, just go FAST bro” and that bums me out
Dang it, debugging CI code is such a gigantic pain ... in this case, a custom github action to easily run #Chloroplast documentation builds. It's gonna be so cool once it works!
a man in a blue sweater is sitting in a chair and raising his fist in the air .
ALT: a man in a blue sweater is sitting in a chair and raising his fist in the air .
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August 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Dang it, debugging CI code is such a gigantic pain ... in this case, a custom github action to easily run #Chloroplast documentation builds. It's gonna be so cool once it works!
Before I get banned or blocked for going about this the wrong way… Does anyone know the best way to pull things out of the Internet way back machine? I’d like to go in and extract some of my very early blog posts from the early 2000s that I don’t have.
August 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Before I get banned or blocked for going about this the wrong way… Does anyone know the best way to pull things out of the Internet way back machine? I’d like to go in and extract some of my very early blog posts from the early 2000s that I don’t have.
GPT 4o after people started checking out GPT5
a man in armor holding a sword with the words after all this time fate or destiny has brought you back to me because
ALT: a man in armor holding a sword with the words after all this time fate or destiny has brought you back to me because
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August 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
GPT 4o after people started checking out GPT5
What movie have you seen an unhealthy number of times?
August 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
What movie have you seen an unhealthy number of times?
On the eve of GPT5 launching, I start to wonder how the future will evolve. As we keep integrating these new tools into our workflows, will we (collectively) get to keep the generated value, or will it be increasingly extracted from us.
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The AI Breadline
Here's a familiar pattern I’ve seen play out more than once. Recently, Anthropic reduced Claude’s usage limits after someone started consuming way more resources than expected. That’s understandabl...
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August 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
On the eve of GPT5 launching, I start to wonder how the future will evolve. As we keep integrating these new tools into our workflows, will we (collectively) get to keep the generated value, or will it be increasingly extracted from us.
codecube.net/2025/8/ai-br...
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