{{< bookmark-card image="1501733915.webp" title="What AI is Really For - Christopher Butler" link="https://www.chrbutler.com/what-ai-is-really-for" domain="chrbutler.com" date="2025-12-22" tags="tech, ai, career" excerpt="After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1501733829.jpg" title="So You Want To Speak At Software Conferences? : dylanbeattie.net" link="https://dylanbeattie.net/2025/12/08/so-you-want-to-speak-at-software-conferences.html" domain="dylanbeattie.net" date="2025-12-22" tags="tech, leadership, career" excerpt="An article from dylanbeattie.net" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Making RSS More Fun" link="https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/" domain="matduggan.com" date="2025-12-22" tags="tech, code" excerpt="I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1501731030.png" title="Essential ingredients for enterprise AI success - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/11/25/essential-ingredients-for-enterprise-ai-success/" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-12-22" tags="ai, tech" excerpt="Here, we’ve distilled the survey findings, laid out action items for leadership, and dug into recommendations around agentic AI for the enterprise. Spoiler alert: It all comes back to data quality." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1501729916.png" title="We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs" link="https://lalitm.com/fixits-are-good-for-the-soul/" domain="lalitm.com" date="2025-12-22" tags="tech, leadership, management" excerpt="How quarterly fixit weeks help teams tackle small annoyances that never bubble up to the priority list." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1501729814.jpg" title="A Unified Theory Of Ego, Empathy, And Humility At Work" link="https://matthogg.fyi/a-unified-theory-of-ego-empathy-and-humility-at-work/" domain="matthogg.fyi" date="2025-12-22" tags="leadership, psychology, tech, management" excerpt="In our daily lives empathy and humility are obvious virtues we aspire to. They keep our egos in check. Less obvious is that they're practical skills in the workplace, too. I think, for developers and technical leaders in particular, that the absence of ego is the best way to furt" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1501729270.png" title="How Stack Overflow’s MCP Server is helping HP modernize the software development lifecycle - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/12/12/how-stack-overflow-s-mcp-server-is-helping-hp-modernize-the-software-development-lifecycle/" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-12-22" tags="programming, tech" excerpt="HP‘s Distinguished Technologist Evan Scheessele shares how better knowledge access is allowing HP to experiment and modernize their software development lifecycle with the help of the Stack Internal MCP Server." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1501728709.png" title="Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing" link="https://spectrum.ieee.org/it-management-software-failures" domain="spectrum.ieee.org" date="2025-12-22" tags="programming, management, tech" excerpt="Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1501728299.jpg" title="Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems" link="https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html" domain="blog.joeschrag.com" date="2025-12-22" tags="programming, code, tech, psychology, management, leadership" excerpt="Someone pointed out that Jeff Atwood wrote this same thing in 2008. Jeff references Bruce Eckel from 2007 , and Bruce references Gerald..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1482214023.png" title="How to Create a Weapon System in Unreal Engine 5" link="https://trueoutlaw.medium.com/how-to-create-a-weapon-system-in-unreal-engine-5-02159f7d5a0d" domain="trueoutlaw.medium.com" date="2025-12-10" tags="programming, tech, unreal, games, code" excerpt="This tutorial covers how to create a weapon inventory system with the ability to switch between different weapons." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1441279971.jpg" title="A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata" link="https://raganwald.com/2019/02/14/i-love-programming-and-programmers.html" domain="raganwald.com" date="2025-11-20" tags="tech, programming, code" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1441274627.png" title="Needy Programs" link="https://tonsky.me/blog/needy-programs/" domain="tonsky.me" date="2025-11-20" tags="tech" excerpt="We used to use software; now software started to use us" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1436640732.jpg" title="The Country That Broke Kotlin" link="https://sam-cooper.medium.com/the-country-that-broke-kotlin-84bdd0afb237" domain="sam-cooper.medium.com" date="2025-11-17" tags="tech, programming, code" excerpt="Logic vs language: how a Turkish alphabet bug played a years-long game of hide-and-seek inside the Kotlin compiler" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1436640237.png" title="Why your boss isn't worried about AI" link="https://boydkane.com/essays/boss" domain="boydkane.com" date="2025-11-17" tags="tech, ai, management, leadership, business" excerpt="Can't you just turn it off?." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1436635212.jpg" title="Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation" link="https://phys.org/news/2025-10-mathematical-proof-debunks-idea-universe.html" domain="phys.org" date="2025-11-17" tags="science, maths, tech, psychology" excerpt="It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. 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That's why they'll last." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1436633828.png" title="LLMs Can Get Brain Rot" link="https://llm-brain-rot.github.io/" domain="llm-brain-rot.github.io" date="2025-11-17" tags="tech, ai, learning, psychology" excerpt="Exploring the phenomenon of 'brain rot' in large language models and its implications for AI cognition." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Is Life a Form of Computation?" link="https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-life-a-form-of-computation/" domain="thereader.mitpress.mit.edu" date="2025-11-17" tags="science, tech, algorithms" excerpt="Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1436578167.png" title="Is Software The UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines?" link="https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/is-software-the-ufology-of-engineering-disciplines/" domain="codemanship.wordpress.com" date="2025-11-17" tags="tech, ai, programming" excerpt="One area where software development lags far behind other technical design disciplines like electronic and mechanical engineering is in standards of evidence. 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This is NOT a tutorial for SLATE code, that deserves a tutorial" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Stroustrup: FAQ" link="https://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html" domain="stroustrup.com" date="2025-11-05" tags="code, programming" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1417684455.png" title="A History of Large Language Models" link="https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2025/10/01/large-language-models/" domain="gregorygundersen.com" date="2025-11-01" tags="ai, history, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="I'm in Vibe Coding Hell" link="https://blog.boot.dev/education/vibe-coding-hell/" domain="blog.boot.dev" date="2025-11-01" tags="education, code, learning, ai" excerpt="When I started thinking about the problems with coding education in 2019, “tutorial hell” was enemy number one. You’d know you were living in it if you:" >}}