...ends up as a rube Goldberg machine of operational overhead, latency blackholes, and ever increasing budgets. The VCs are rubbing their hands, the rest of us are staring into the abyss - but this time, it's got an API. x.com/samnewman/stat…

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Kind over nice. Outcome over ego. Velocity over speed. Quality over quantity. Effective over efficient. Ability over experience. Progress over perfection. Consistency over intensity. Competence over charisma. Environment over willpower. Correctness over consensus. Long-term over

Great three part blog series on HTTP/3 is full of details that I have not seen elsewhere. A takeaway is that HTTP/3 + QUIC is complex to implement and many HTTP servers are struggling to add support. smashingmagazine.com/2021/08/http3-…

state charts + wireframes + annotations

About two months ago I wrote this thread about how we lost the battle to define ✨observability✨ -- to give it a real, specific, falsifiable technical definition, distinct from monitoring or telemetry. I complained, I argued, I grieved...and now I'm over it. SO over it. 🙄

When I think of “hall of fame” blog posts (had an enduring influence on the industry, made a real difference in the way people think about a problem), I think of: - use boring technology by Dan McKinley is mcfunley.com on BlueSky - being glue by (past account, never updated) - the engineer manager pendulum by Charity Majors

Inventions hanging out

🐢 🐢 🐢 youtube.com/watch?v=bUJiMJ…

This could be summed up in one word: care. You need to care. Caring is the bare minimum.

Computer science used to be about making the most useful result out of the least amount of compute. But now due to AI it turned into exact opposite: use the most amount of compute to accomplish the dumbest piece of questionable result. The dumber and more compute, the better.

I have a new piece up. It's a bit of a rant, even for me, so buckle in. A lot of "thought leaders" have been making their mortgages lately off of bits on how AI is going to replace software engineers, particularly entry-level engineers. stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/10/gen…

how come a company founded over 100 years ago has the fastest site on the internet?

Elon Musk Thanks for sharing my work! Here’s a higher-res copy of that composite at the end. I also have some higher resolution mobile wallpaper downloads on my website in my bio if anyone wants one!

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

statistically no. people who write their websites in pure html + css are busy reading classic literature, learning to windsurf, and hiking with their families, since they don't have to upgrade their build stack from version 14.5.75 to 15.1.200 every three weeks