{{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/13/images/1055999689.webp" title="AI's effects on programming jobs | Seldo.com" link="https://seldo.com/posts/ai-effect-on-programming-jobs" domain="seldo.com" date="2025-03-29" tags="career, tech" excerpt="There's been a whole lot of discussion recently about the impact of AI on the market for web developers, for programmers in general, and even more generally the entire labor market. I find myself making the same points over and over, and whenever I do that it's time to write a bl" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/13/images/1055999673.png" title="How are sandwich generation developers dealing? - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/03/10/how-are-sandwich-generation-developers-dealing" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-03-25" tags="career, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/14/images/1055999647.png" title="Why all developers should adopt a safety-critical mindset - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/01/22/why-all-developers-should-adopt-a-safety-critical-mindset" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-02-03" tags="career, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/14/images/1055999640.png" title="Tracking Engineering Time - Jacob Kaplan-Moss" link="https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/7/tracking-engineering-time" domain="jacobian.org" date="2025-01-07" tags="career, leadership, management, tech" excerpt="How do you understand what engineers are doing with that time? How do you know if they’re working on the “right” things? Here’s how I suggest answering those questions." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/14/images/1055999638.png" title="Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing it Harder | Irrational Exuberance" link="https://lethain.com/doing-it-harder-and-hero-programming" domain="lethain.com" date="2025-01-06" tags="career, management, tech" excerpt="One of the most destructive ideas is that you can dig out of a hole by doing what you’re already doing, but doing it harder. This doesn’t work, but it does breed and kill your heroes, and alienate everyone else." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/15/images/1055999636.jpg" title="Three-Bucket Framework for Engineering Metrics" link="https://newsletter.getdx.com/p/choosing-engineering-metrics" domain="newsletter.getdx.com" date="2025-01-06" tags="career, management, tech" excerpt="Deciding what metrics to track and report to stakeholders." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/15/images/1055999633.jpg" title="New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years: Evan King" link="https://www.developing.dev/p/new-grad-to-staff-at-meta-in-3-years" domain="developing.dev" date="2025-01-06" tags="career, leadership, tech" excerpt="On Speed, Being Bold, and Depositing Into the “Favor Bank”" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Fake It Till You Make It: Good Advice or a Setup for Failure?" link="https://www.vivianmanningschaffel.com/blog/2022/2/18/fake-it-till-you-make-it-good-advice-or-a-setup-for-failure" domain="vivianmanningschaffel.com" date="2024-11-28" tags="career, psychology" excerpt="Imitating confidence, competency, and drive may work for some, but what are the long-term professional implications?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/15/images/1055999624.jpg" title="Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is | Quanta Magazine" link="https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematical-thinking-isnt-what-you-think-it-is-20241118" domain="quantamagazine.org" date="2024-11-28" tags="career, maths, psychology" excerpt="The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/15/images/1055999621.jpg" title="Engineering Managers' Guide to Effective Annual Feedback" link="https://peterszasz.com/engineering-managers-guide-to-effective-annual-feedback" domain="peterszasz.com" date="2024-11-14" tags="career, tech" excerpt="Breaking down the feedback cycle process from preparation to follow-up. Approaches I found useful, antipatterns to avoid, and a document structure that can help bring it all to one place. I hope to turn this often-dreaded task into a powerful tool for individual growth and organi" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="The Secret to a Meaningful Life is Simpler Than You Think" link="https://qz.com/1310792/the-secret-to-a-meaningful-life-is-simpler-than-you-think" domain="qz.com" date="2024-11-11" tags="career, psychology" excerpt="Unhappy people fail to recognize what matters, instead becoming overly focused on what they believe is missing from their existence." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/15/images/1055999612.jpg" title="Know your “One Job” and do it first – charity.wtf" link="https://charity.wtf/p/know-your-one-job-and-do-it-first" domain="charity.wtf" date="2024-10-12" tags="career, management, tech" excerpt="Story time. Susan was hired as a database engineer. Her primary projects, which are supposed to be upgrading/rolling out a major point release and running load tests against various config options …" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Being Glue — No Idea Blog" link="https://www.noidea.dog/glue" domain="noidea.dog" date="2024-10-12" tags="career, management, tech" excerpt="Slides and notes for the Being Glue talk." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999610.jpg" title="The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business) – charity.wtf" link="https://charity.wtf/p/the-hierarchy-is-bullshit-and-bad-for-business" domain="charity.wtf" date="2024-10-12" tags="career, tech" excerpt="My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, w…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?”" link="https://charity.wtf/p/questionable-advice-my-boss-says-we-dont-need-any-engineering-managers-is-he-right" domain="charity.wtf" date="2024-10-12" tags="career, tech" excerpt="I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?" link="https://charity.wtf/p/how-hard-should-your-employer-work-to-retain-you" domain="charity.wtf" date="2024-10-12" tags="career, tech" excerpt="Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extr…" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999605.png" title="Ongoing community data protection - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/30/ongoing-community-data-protection" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-10-11" tags="career, tech, ai" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999604.png" title="Attribution as the foundation of developer trust - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/30/attribution-as-the-foundation-of-developer-trust" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-10-11" tags="career, tech, ai" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999603.png" title="Knowledge-as-a-service: The future of community business models - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/30/knowledge-as-a-service-the-future-of-community-business-models" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-10-11" tags="career, tech, ai" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999602.png" title="The changing state of the Internet and related business models - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/30/the-changing-state-of-the-internet-and-related-business-models" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-10-11" tags="career, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999601.png" title="Your company needs Junior devs" link="https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/09/07/your-team-needs-juniors" domain="softwaredoug.com" date="2024-10-06" tags="career, management, tech" excerpt="Junior engineers are foundational to whether a team can collaborate and innovate" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999600.jpg" title="Doing support makes you a better engineer - by Ian Vanagas" link="https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/doing-support-makes-you-a-better" domain="newsletter.posthog.com" date="2024-10-03" tags="tech, career, learning" excerpt="What we've learned about providing support that doesn't suck (and does scale)!" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999599.jpg" title="Career Advice: Simplifiers Go Far, Complexifiers Get Stuck - Kellblog" link="https://kellblog.com/2015/05/13/career-advice-simplifiers-go-far-complexifiers-get-stuck" domain="kellblog.com" date="2024-10-03" tags="career, tech" excerpt="“If you can’t explain it to a six year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” – Albert Einstein There are two types of people in business: Simplifiers: who make complex things simple Complexifiers: who make simple things complex Quick joke Question: What … Continue reading →" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999183.webp" title="What engineering can teach (and learn from) us" link="https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/what-we-can-learn" domain="hillelwayne.com" date="2024-09-07" tags="career, tech" excerpt="This is part three of the crossover project. Part one is here and part two is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I met William at Deconstruct 2019.1 We were walking back from the pre-party—too loud for my comfort level—and I took the chance to inter" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/17/images/1055999184.webp" title="We Are Not Special" link="https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/we-are-not-special" domain="hillelwayne.com" date="2024-09-07" tags="career, tech" excerpt="This is part two of the crossover project. Part one is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. No one thinks about moving the starting or ending point of the bridge midway through construction. -Justin Cave I had to move a bridge." >}}