Will AI replace senior developers? This is a common question people are asking today as AI coding tools become increasingly sophisticated. Instead, the aspects that make a senior developer a great dev...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) represents a significant advancement in AI assistant capabilities, enabling seamless integration with external tools and services. However, as MCP adoption grows, so d...

When you are asked to take on a task that you do not feel is possible, your instinct might be to say “no” and explain why. A more effective approach is instead to shift from “No Because…” to “Yes and ...

I predict that in the next few years, we will see a huge wave of resignations in software companies. We are in a period where the opportunity cost of leaving a role is high. There are few postings in ...

My formative years in tech were in the era of Slashdot and Linux becoming mainstream. Being a Microsoft hater (aka Micro$oft) was very popular at the time. Bill Gates was on the way out, handing the r...

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Startups are under a lot of pressure to deliver fast. This often necessitates the accumulation of technical debt. Many articles have been written on why it is essential to pay off technical debt. Fewe...

I have noticed a trend that many brilliant people struggle to advocate for their ideas effectively. Often as engineering or product leaders, you need to propose a technical or product solution, recomm...

I was chatting with someone from a startup last year, where it is normal for team members to put in extra long hours (60+ hour weeks). The founder and CEO said, “I wish it wasn’t like this, but it is ...

These are some informal notes on setting up a full-network atproto Relay, using the bigsky relay software developed by Bluesky. This is the same software we run ourselves at https://bsky.network. The focus here is on the compute resources necessary to replicate the type of full-network, full-feature...