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Marcos F. Lobo
@marcosflobo.bsky.social
👨🏽‍💻 Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead
🌌 Former CERN
📰 https://optimistengineer.com
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👋🏼 Marcos here and I love these topics:

✳️ Software Engineering
✳️ Technical Leadership
✳️ Technical Growth

I help you to be better on those topics here down 👇

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All with a bit of optimism 🌱

#softwareengineering #leadership #growth #optimistengineer
The Optimist Engineer | Marcos F. Lobo | Substack
Experiences, learnings, and inspiration about Software Engineering, Technical Leadership, and Technical Growth, with a bit of optimism. Interesting for Tech Leads and software makers from Startups to ...
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These are the results of the poll; people speak!

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December 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Reposted by Marcos F. Lobo
Confirmed: Laura Tacho (@lauratacho.com ) will deliver the keynote for The Pragmatic Summit on how AI+coding agents are changing engineering productivity. 11 Feb 2026, SF.

Laura is one the top experts on AI + developer productivity: no fluff, just things that work, and things that don't

(cont'd)
December 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reposted by Marcos F. Lobo
This Wednesday we celebrated the community farewell event of the Google for Startups Campus.
December 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
You need to define a way of working so your team can release their applications, libraries, and frameworks quickly.

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December 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Open AI is hiring folks... 449 open positions all over the world 🤯🤦🏽‍♂️
December 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Trying the Antigravity editor now, in the free edition.

First feelings: like Cursor but free

Nice!
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Do you write blog posts, documentation, or anything for software engineers? Do you want to?

Join us for the Writing for Developers book club with @overcommitted.dev, officially kicking off now! 🚀

Chapters 1+2 now, first discussion Friday. Join us in Discord to chat about it: discord.gg/d9gZyYuqKd
Join the Overcommitted Discord Server!
The official discord server of the Overcommitted podcast! | 91 members
discord.gg
December 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Reposted by Marcos F. Lobo
Want to keep up with what is happening in the software community?

There's a starter pack for that!

go.bsky.app/AnM2t7r
December 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In a couple of hours, I will send my last email for this year 2025.

Building a Product Platform Engineering Team

In today’s email, I go one step beyond, and you will learn the technical principles on which a Product Platform Engineering Team should be based.
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Reposted by Marcos F. Lobo
Arrancamos una comunidad técnica de IA en Madrid. Ya tenemos un primer evento organizado para 2026.
Contaremos con @carloslopez.bsky.social Nos hablará de su experiencia escalando un sistema de IA para transcripciones de citas médicas, con lo que eso implica a nivel técnico y de compliance madai.es
MadAi, Comunidad tecnológica alrededor de ingeniería de IA en Madrid
Compartiendo sobre AI Engineering e IA aplicada a procesos de desarrollo de software y producto
madai.es
December 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Do you book dedicated time in your Sprints for refactoring?

Or you do as you implement new features?

newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/the-hidden...
The Hidden Force Slowing Your Deploys
Uncover the silent dependency trap that keeps your applications from reaching production effortlessly
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December 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The problem is you have too many dependencies in you application.

newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/the-hidden...
December 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Si te gusta la navidad y te apetece disfrutarla en #asturias esto te interesa 👇🏽

open.substack.com/pub/ruralpre...
¿Qué ver en Asturias en Navidad? (5 noches)
Una experiencia de cuento por la Navidad asturiana
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Reposted by Marcos F. Lobo
⚡️ ⚡️
En dicembre toca: ¡lightning talks!

Temas tan variados como datos, startups, cloud o reprogramación de humanos (¿podemos pensar como una máquina?)

📆 Viernes 19 de diciembre
⏰ 18:30 a 20:30
📍 Talud de la Ería, Oviedo

Apuntate aqui👇
buff.ly/bdwEx94
December 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Anthropic is donating MCP to the Linux Foundation, making it a founding project of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). This strengthens open, shared standards so AI tools and agents can work together more transparently.

Read more: www.anthropic.com/news/donatin...

#OpenSource #AI #AgenticAI
Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
👉🏼 This has a problem: It slows you down for reaching production for every single change you implement.

newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/the-hidden...
December 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Do you feel that testing your application is difficult?

newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/the-hidden...
The Hidden Force Slowing Your Deploys
Uncover the silent dependency trap that keeps your applications from reaching production effortlessly
newsletter.optimistengineer.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
It's time to save your knowledge.
newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/how-to-kee...

Have a great Sunday! 🍂🍁🌰❄️
How to Keep Your Hard-Earned Engineering Lessons Forever
Knowledge drives you, why lose it when you change job?
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December 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
We need a bit of optimism nowadays
December 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Reposted by Marcos F. Lobo
Bluesky is using Bunny CDN (based on response headers)
December 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Internet is down again… because Cloudflare is down
December 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Reposted by Marcos F. Lobo
Damn half the internet is down again - including Downdetector

Downdetector is multi-region but has a singular dependency on Cloudflare

Is Cloudflare down again?
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Ciencia y docencia también 😉
Estudiar merece la pena. Un informe de CRUE confirma que la formación universitaria reduce el paro muy por encima de la media europea. En la Universidad de Oviedo hacemos ciencia de calidad mundial.
https://f.mtr.cool/fmmiktziow
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
You accumulate a lot of knowledge, why losing it when you change to another company?

newsletter.optimistengineer.com/p/how-to-kee...
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM