Benjamin Yu
@moorguard.bsky.social
Oncall as a software developer is top of mind to me, seeing the major outages at Microsoft and Amazon in the last couple of weeks. Set up the right procedure to triage and mitigate quickly
youtu.be/KWIRgMtrkXU
youtu.be/KWIRgMtrkXU
ON-CALL as a Software Developer
YouTube video by Ben Yu
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November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Oncall as a software developer is top of mind to me, seeing the major outages at Microsoft and Amazon in the last couple of weeks. Set up the right procedure to triage and mitigate quickly
youtu.be/KWIRgMtrkXU
youtu.be/KWIRgMtrkXU
Self checkout coming to a warehouse near you
Amazon, the second largest employer in the U.S., aims to replace more than half a million jobs with robots, internal documents show.
Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Self checkout coming to a warehouse near you
Great seeing people get into vibe coding on the browser. Many are missing how to test. Three easy tips:
- Print variables to console
- Break up your code into small functions and run them on their own
- Run a debugger
- Print variables to console
- Break up your code into small functions and run them on their own
- Run a debugger
October 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Great seeing people get into vibe coding on the browser. Many are missing how to test. Three easy tips:
- Print variables to console
- Break up your code into small functions and run them on their own
- Run a debugger
- Print variables to console
- Break up your code into small functions and run them on their own
- Run a debugger
Anybody else wait hours for a pipeline to fail, spend NO time looking at the problem and immediately restart the job
October 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Anybody else wait hours for a pipeline to fail, spend NO time looking at the problem and immediately restart the job
Time to buy the dip
October 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Time to buy the dip
Went into reading Dotcom Secrets, expecting a tech filled experience... Not at all, turns out it's all about sales funnels
October 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Went into reading Dotcom Secrets, expecting a tech filled experience... Not at all, turns out it's all about sales funnels
Using screen readers with the kindle app is a game changer. Makes any book into an audio book!
September 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Using screen readers with the kindle app is a game changer. Makes any book into an audio book!
I’ve been happy using Cline.bot, the planning/act paradigm helps set the context and gives more transparency on the actions the agent is taking on your codebase
Cline - AI Coding, Open Source and Uncompromised
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Cline.bot
August 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I’ve been happy using Cline.bot, the planning/act paradigm helps set the context and gives more transparency on the actions the agent is taking on your codebase
Using AI to generate system prompts is a pretty smart move by OpenAI
June 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Using AI to generate system prompts is a pretty smart move by OpenAI
Got an old computer gathering dust? Put it to work as a private photo backup server! I recommend self-hosting Immich - it’s easy to set up with Docker and offers a user-friendly way to securely back up and manage your photos
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How to turn your old laptop into an Immich Image Server | Notion
Introduction
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April 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Got an old computer gathering dust? Put it to work as a private photo backup server! I recommend self-hosting Immich - it’s easy to set up with Docker and offers a user-friendly way to securely back up and manage your photos
linen-cathedral-656.notion.site/How-to-turn-...
linen-cathedral-656.notion.site/How-to-turn-...
Interestingly, I found Ubuntu easier to setup than Windows on a custom PC!
April 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Interestingly, I found Ubuntu easier to setup than Windows on a custom PC!
How to Make More Money as an Employee
YouTube video by Ali Abdaal
youtu.be
March 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Life saving command to grab a dll version:
(Get-Command "C:\path\to\your.dll").FileVersionInfo
The value I needed was the product version, but it's such a pain finding the right number for your application. Don't know why we need 3 different numbers for the file, product, nuget you name it
(Get-Command "C:\path\to\your.dll").FileVersionInfo
The value I needed was the product version, but it's such a pain finding the right number for your application. Don't know why we need 3 different numbers for the file, product, nuget you name it
March 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Life saving command to grab a dll version:
(Get-Command "C:\path\to\your.dll").FileVersionInfo
The value I needed was the product version, but it's such a pain finding the right number for your application. Don't know why we need 3 different numbers for the file, product, nuget you name it
(Get-Command "C:\path\to\your.dll").FileVersionInfo
The value I needed was the product version, but it's such a pain finding the right number for your application. Don't know why we need 3 different numbers for the file, product, nuget you name it
NXDOMAIN is a big point of confusion for software developers
- Valid response for DNS
- Invalid response for applications (Where's my record?)
- Applies to EVERY type of record for the name (NOERROR is the response if just the record is missing)
- Valid response for DNS
- Invalid response for applications (Where's my record?)
- Applies to EVERY type of record for the name (NOERROR is the response if just the record is missing)
March 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NXDOMAIN is a big point of confusion for software developers
- Valid response for DNS
- Invalid response for applications (Where's my record?)
- Applies to EVERY type of record for the name (NOERROR is the response if just the record is missing)
- Valid response for DNS
- Invalid response for applications (Where's my record?)
- Applies to EVERY type of record for the name (NOERROR is the response if just the record is missing)
Steps to making a code change:
1. Design Document
2. Interface code changes
3. Test driven development
4. Test in test environment
5. Check into Prod
youtu.be/lQl_eTqxmpQ
1. Design Document
2. Interface code changes
3. Test driven development
4. Test in test environment
5. Check into Prod
youtu.be/lQl_eTqxmpQ
How to make a code change
YouTube video by Ben Yu
youtu.be
March 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Steps to making a code change:
1. Design Document
2. Interface code changes
3. Test driven development
4. Test in test environment
5. Check into Prod
youtu.be/lQl_eTqxmpQ
1. Design Document
2. Interface code changes
3. Test driven development
4. Test in test environment
5. Check into Prod
youtu.be/lQl_eTqxmpQ
Surprisingly great video editor, made over 100 videos with blender
youtu.be/XwdP4UjSpFw?...
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Blender Video Editor Made Simple
YouTube video by Olav3D Tutorials
youtu.be
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Surprisingly great video editor, made over 100 videos with blender
youtu.be/XwdP4UjSpFw?...
youtu.be/XwdP4UjSpFw?...
Crazy that English is essentially a programming language today. With Vibecoding, an LLM acts as a compiler, transforming your prompts to code.
March 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Crazy that English is essentially a programming language today. With Vibecoding, an LLM acts as a compiler, transforming your prompts to code.
Can't write testable code without dependency injection. Mocking class dependencies lets you try out every problem towards 100% code coverage
#software
#software
March 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Can't write testable code without dependency injection. Mocking class dependencies lets you try out every problem towards 100% code coverage
#software
#software
Taxing digital advertising is an interesting approach to improving people's online experience bogged down from advertising. Tax brackets on advertising can help transform the business model of super scalers without impacting small businesses
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The case for taxing digital advertising | MIT Sloan
Social media platforms make money off sensational content. Taxing digital ads is one way to encourage different business models, according to two MIT economists.
mitsloan.mit.edu
March 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Taxing digital advertising is an interesting approach to improving people's online experience bogged down from advertising. Tax brackets on advertising can help transform the business model of super scalers without impacting small businesses
mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...
mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...
Cutting the Department of Education takes aim at 15% of education specific funding, mainly benefiting children with disabilities, low income or learning English.
Why take away their chance for the American dream? We should be looking at enhancing their skill sets in information technology
Why take away their chance for the American dream? We should be looking at enhancing their skill sets in information technology
March 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Cutting the Department of Education takes aim at 15% of education specific funding, mainly benefiting children with disabilities, low income or learning English.
Why take away their chance for the American dream? We should be looking at enhancing their skill sets in information technology
Why take away their chance for the American dream? We should be looking at enhancing their skill sets in information technology
Software developers are rewarded for delivering impact. This may come from writing documentation, simplifying a workflow or sharing development approaches with your company. Codifying a brand new solution is often expensive and reserved for the greatest of problems.
March 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Software developers are rewarded for delivering impact. This may come from writing documentation, simplifying a workflow or sharing development approaches with your company. Codifying a brand new solution is often expensive and reserved for the greatest of problems.
Super interesting perspective about entrepreneurship and the approach of taking big innovative leaps along with parallel entrepreneurship
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Building the Platform for Scientific Breakthrough, with Noubar Afeyan of Moderna and Flagship Pioneering
Podcast Episode · No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups · 02/27/2025 · 41m
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March 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Super interesting perspective about entrepreneurship and the approach of taking big innovative leaps along with parallel entrepreneurship
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
US Education is a chimera of 50 systems for 50 states: different standards and outcomes. The federal government provides some guidelines funds specific inequalities like providing school lunches and supporting education for students with disabilities. Is this really what we want to give up?
February 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
US Education is a chimera of 50 systems for 50 states: different standards and outcomes. The federal government provides some guidelines funds specific inequalities like providing school lunches and supporting education for students with disabilities. Is this really what we want to give up?
Does it make sense to make Pennies if it costs more than two Pennie’s to make one? Probably not
As a developer, your impact goes beyond the engineering. Your influence spans across the customer experience and the company’s bottom line, which help inform engineering decisions.
As a developer, your impact goes beyond the engineering. Your influence spans across the customer experience and the company’s bottom line, which help inform engineering decisions.
February 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Does it make sense to make Pennies if it costs more than two Pennie’s to make one? Probably not
As a developer, your impact goes beyond the engineering. Your influence spans across the customer experience and the company’s bottom line, which help inform engineering decisions.
As a developer, your impact goes beyond the engineering. Your influence spans across the customer experience and the company’s bottom line, which help inform engineering decisions.