{{< bookmark-card image="1055999181.webp" title="Are We Really Engineers?" link="https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers" domain="hillelwayne.com" date="2024-07-20" tags="career, tech" excerpt="This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999567.png" title="Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you - Stack O" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/10/generative-ai-is-not-going-to-build-your-engineering-team-for-you" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-07-20" tags="career, tech, ai" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999564.jpg" title="How To Hack Your Google Lighthouse Scores In 2024 — Smashing Magazine" link="https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/06/how-hack-google-lighthouse-scores-2024" domain="smashingmagazine.com" date="2024-07-20" tags="javascript, performance, tech" excerpt="Do perfect Lighthouse scores mean the performance of your website is perfect? As it turns out, Lighthouse is influenced by a number of things that can be manipulated and bent to make sites seem more performant than they really are, as Salma Alam-Naylor demonstrates in several exp" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)" link="https://samcurry.net/hacking-millions-of-modems" domain="samcurry.net" date="2024-07-20" tags="code, history, tech" excerpt="Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from th" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999555.png" title="Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications" link="https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-fetch-spa.html" domain="martinfowler.com" date="2024-07-20" tags="code, tech" excerpt="Five patterns to help Single Page Applications fetch data from remote sources" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999566.jpg" title="2-Page Login Pattern, And How To Fix It — Smashing Magazine" link="https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/06/2-page-login-pattern-how-fix-it" domain="smashingmagazine.com" date="2024-07-20" tags="code, tech" excerpt="The 2-page login pattern is becoming pervasive. Here are the reasons behind this design choice and alternative solutions to create a more efficient and user-friendly authentication experience." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999563.png" title="Developers get by with a little help from AI: Stack Overflow Knows code ass" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/29/developers-get-by-with-a-little-help-from-ai-stack-overflow-knows-code-assistant-pulse-survey-results" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-06-07" tags="code, tech, ai" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999560.webp" title="Enlightenmentware" link="https://mmapped.blog/posts/28-enlightenmentware" domain="mmapped.blog" date="2024-06-05" tags="code, tech" excerpt="Software that makes you a better programmer." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999558.jpg" title="The curious case of the missing period - Tjaart’s Substack" link="https://tjaart.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-the-missing-period" domain="tjaart.substack.com" date="2024-06-05" tags="history, tech" excerpt="When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999557.jpg" title="UI Density || Matthew Ström, designer-leader" link="https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density" domain="matthewstrom.com" date="2024-06-05" tags="design, tech" excerpt="I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999561.png" title="You should keep a developer’s journal - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/22/you-should-keep-a-developer-s-journal" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-06-05" tags="tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999536.jpg" title="Here’s What a Good LGBTQ Ally Looks Like" link="https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/6/22/18700875/lgbtq-good-ally" domain="vox.com" date="2024-06-02" tags="lgbt, politics" excerpt="In response to critics calling Taylor Swift’s latest video, packed with queer imagery, self-serving, here are some examples of how to be a good LGBTQ ally," >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999409.jpg" title="The Assimilationist, or: On the Unexpected Cost of Passing as a Trans Woman" link="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/2/12/21075683/trans-coming-out-cost-of-womanhood-pink-tax" domain="vox.com" date="2024-06-02" tags="psychology, lgbt, politics" excerpt="The trouble with finding my true self in the beauty aisles." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999545.webp" title="State of the Terminal | g.p. anders" link="https://gpanders.com/blog/state-of-the-terminal" domain="gpanders.com" date="2024-05-25" tags="history, tech" excerpt="This is a companion article to my talk at Neovimconf 2023. I have been using Vim/Neovim as my full time text editor for close to 10 years. I’ve spent a lot of time in the terminal and have become very aware of the many flaws and idiosyncrasies of this bizarre platform. But I also" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999559.png" title="Why do only a small percentage of GenAI projects actually make it into prod" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/13/why-do-only-a-small-percentage-of-genai-projects-actually-make-it-into-production" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-05-25" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999556.webp" title="Remote Synthesis | Community is a Tamagotchi" link="https://remotesynthesis.com/blog/community-is-a-tamagotchi" domain="remotesynthesis.com" date="2024-05-19" tags="career, tech" excerpt="Many companies handle community wrong because they focus on outcomes over inputs. Here's some tips on how to think about community." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999552.jpg" title="We Need To Rewild The Internet" link="https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet" domain="noemamag.com" date="2024-05-19" tags="cloud, history, tech" excerpt="The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999554.png" title="Go or Rust? Just Listen to the Bots - Cybernetist" link="https://cybernetist.com/2024/04/25/go-or-rust-just-listen-to-the-bots" domain="cybernetist.com" date="2024-05-12" tags="programming, tech" excerpt="It all started as a joke. I was in a group chat with a few of my friends and we were talking about football (soccer for the American readers). I entered the chat during a mildly heated discussion about the manager of a team one of my friends supports. It was going on for a bit wh" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999553.png" title="How to succeed as a data engineer without the burnout - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/04/15/how-to-succeed-as-a-data-engineer-without-the-burnout" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-04-26" tags="data, database, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055997733.jpg" title="Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy" link="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/why-so-many-smart-people-arent-happy/479832/" domain="theatlantic.com" date="2024-04-23" tags="psychology" excerpt="It’s a paradox: Shouldn’t the most accomplished be well equipped to make choices that maximize life satisfaction?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999548.jpg" title="ESA - Telling time on the Moon" link="https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Telling_time_on_the_Moon" domain="esa.int" date="2024-04-21" tags="science" excerpt="A new era of lunar exploration is on the rise, with dozens of Moon missions planned for the coming decade. Europe is in the forefront here, contributing to building the Gateway lunar station and the Orion spacecraft – set to return humans to our natural satellite – as well as dev" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999550.webp" title="How to get somebody fired using Git - DEV Community" link="https://dev.to/mauroaccorinti/how-to-get-somebody-fired-using-git-31if" domain="dev.to" date="2024-04-21" tags="code, git, tech" excerpt="This is Billy. He is a trainee developer working for an important company. Unfortunately..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999547.png" title="Asking for help is a core developer skill — Rami James" link="https://www.ramijames.com/thoughts/asking-for-help-is-a-core-skill" domain="ramijames.com" date="2024-04-16" tags="career, psychology, tech" excerpt="Intentionally or otherwise, I have been blowing up my life since last summer. It has been less than ideal. We will get to why in a second, but first, let us talk about javascript and the impact of package managers, their packages, and the endless toil they create." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining" link="https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/" domain="predr.ag" date="2024-04-16" tags="history, tech" excerpt="The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999549.jpg" title="The State of Generative AI, 2024 - by Alberto Romero" link="https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/the-state-of-generative-ai-2024" domain="thealgorithmicbridge.com" date="2024-04-16" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="A nuanced analysis and a glimpse of the future" >}}