vscode + copilot = ❤️

stop making things more complicated than they need to be

Not all heroes wear capes

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS #NobleNumbat is now available to download and install. ubuntu.com/blog/canonical…

Rule #1 of Software Architecture: YOU ARE NOT NETFLIX! If you don't have 270M users, a quarter of which can be on the system simultaneously, you don't need the complexity necessarily to support that. Build exactly as much architecture as you need. Build it so that it can grow

This is Parkinson's Law squared. A manager with idle time on their hands will often fill it with work that pulls others off their tasks. Resist this mode for as long as humanely possible.

Every Black Friday Shopify shows how "boring" technology can be scaled just fine. This year they did 45M queries/sec with MySQL and somewhere around 1.3M request/sec on Rails. If a tech company has enough business to need to scale: it can scale with whatever boring tech it uses

i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI

Software engineering isn’t being replaced, the job is turning into something where you delete things generated by AI.

One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people: Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple on the

> created the Linux kernel at 21 > built Git because no existing tool was good enough > accidentally became the backbone of servers, Android, cloud, supercomputers > never chased fame, money, titles or hype > stayed private, consistent, and brutally honest for decades > still

Enter password: Wrong. Wrong. Reset password. New password can't be your old password.

One clear sign a developer hasn’t adapted to the new era of software development: they still use JetBrains IDEs

If Claude Code is capable of fixing security issues in a codebase why can't he write secure code from the start

Cool chart showing the ratio of Tab complete requests to Agent requests in Cursor. With improving capability, every point in time has an optimal setup that keeps changing and evolving and the community average tracks the point. None -> Tab -> Agent -> Parallel agents -> Agent