{{< 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/1055999607.webp" title="Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes? – Communications of the ACM" link="https://cacm.acm.org/article/do-all-problems-have-technical-fixes" domain="cacm.acm.org" date="2024-10-11" tags="tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999606.jpg" title="What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future - The Verge" link="https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/2/24232386/self-driving-car-jevons-paradox-robotaxi-waymo-cruise" domain="theverge.com" date="2024-10-11" tags="science, tech" excerpt="The Jevons paradox originated in the coal era, but it has a lot to teach us about the future of self-driving cars." >}} {{< 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/1055999592.jpg" title="The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning" link="https://eugeneyan.com/writing/first-rule-of-ml" domain="eugeneyan.com" date="2024-10-08" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="Why this is the first rule, some baseline heuristics, and when to move on to machine learning." >}} {{< 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/16/images/1055999598.jpg" title="Do AI companies work? - by Benn Stancil - benn.substack" link="https://benn.substack.com/p/do-ai-companies-work" domain="benn.substack.com" date="2024-10-03" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999597.png" title="Masked self-attention: How LLMs learn relationships between tokens - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/26/masked-self-attention-how-llms-learn-relationships-between-tokens" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-10-03" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999596.png" title="Where developers feel AI coding tools are working—and where they’re missing the mark - Stack Overflo" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/23/where-developers-feel-ai-coding-tools-are-working-and-where-they-re-missing-the-mark" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-10-03" tags="tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999594.png" title="Simplify Your RAG Implementation Using Foundational Models | AWS Marketplace" link="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/build-learn/data-analytics/rag-implementation" domain="aws.amazon.com" date="2024-10-02" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="Learn how to deploy production-ready vector storage capabilities, using tried-and-tested components already available in the tech stack of most organizations." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999593.png" title="One of the best ways to get value for AI coding tools: generating tests - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/10/gen-ai-llm-create-test-developers-coding-software-code-quality" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-10-02" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999590.png" title="The hidden cost of speed - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/05/the-hidden-cost-of-speed" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-09-13" tags="tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999589.png" title="Best practices for cost-efficient Kafka clusters - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/09/04/best-practices-for-cost-efficient-kafka-clusters" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2024-09-13" tags="cloud, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999588.webp" title="Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned) - Christian Hollinger" link="https://chollinger.com/blog/2024/08/why-i-still-self-host-my-servers-and-what-ive-recently-learned" domain="chollinger.com" date="2024-09-13" tags="tech" excerpt="A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999587.png" title="The Road to Out-of-Process ReSharper: Asynchronous Typing | The .NET Tools Blog" link="https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2023/01/05/resharper-out-of-process" domain="blog.jetbrains.com" date="2024-09-10" tags="tech, dotnet" excerpt="Taking ReSharper out of process is a monumental undertaking. We covered the magnitude of this in a previous blog post and posted some updates on YouTrack along the way. In the simplest" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/bookmarks/page/16/images/1055999322.jpg" title="American data spies will never care where the servers are" link="https://world.hey.com/dhh/american-data-spies-will-never-care-where-the-servers-are-371d4016" domain="world.hey.com" date="2024-09-08" tags="cloud, tech" excerpt="In the two years since the European Court of Justice invalidated the Privacy Shield concept, European companies have been scrambling to pretend to comply with the ruling, without changing anything consequential about how they use American internet services. The erroneous consensu" >}}