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Increasing your practice surface area

by Channing Allen

The difference between being good and being great isn’t talent or formal training, but the invisible practice that happens when you're just living life.

πŸš€ Read it!, engineering, career


To AI or not to AI

by antropia.studio

A two-week experiment building an app with full AI assistance, exploring both the promise and frustrations of LLM-based development workflows.

πŸ“° Good to know, ai


90%

by Armin Ronacher

Three months ago I said that AI changes everything.

πŸ“° Good to know, ai


The AI coding trap

by Chris Loy

If you ever watch someone coding, you might see them spending far more time staring into space than typing on their keyboard.

πŸ“° Good to know, ai, engineering


Migrating to TanStack Start

by Catalin Pit

A while ago, I decided to move away from full-stack React frameworks and use a client-server setup. That is, separate the backend and the frontend, each being a standalone app.

πŸ“° Good to know, tanstack, migration


Organize your Slack channels by How Often, not What

by Mark Nguyen

A few weeks ago, I changed my Slack channel sections.

πŸ“° Good to know, productivity, slack


Effective context engineering for AI agents

by Anthropic

Context is a critical but finite resource for AI agents. In this post, we explore strategies for effectively curating and managing the context that powers them.

πŸ“° Good to know, context, ai, agents


Hiring only senior engineers is the worst policy in the startup industry

by Andrew Churchill

In the last 3 months, I've interviewed 134 engineers - students, mid-level, seniors and even CTOs.

πŸ“° Good to know, hiring, engineering


Give your AI eyes

by Addy Osmani

Introducing Chrome DevTools MCP

πŸ“° Good to know, devtools, ai, chrome, mcp


A complete guide to HTTP caching

by Jono Alderson

Caching is the invisible backbone of the web.

πŸ“° Good to know, performance, http, caching


Distracting software engineers is way more harmful than most managers think

by Anton Zaides

Our work culture changed mainly for the better after COVID-19, but there were also some negative changes - like an increase of 13.5% in the amount of meetings per employee.

πŸ“° Good to know, engineering, culture, meetings


Handy

by CJ Pais

A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.

🧰 Tools, speech-to-text, offline, extensible


eslint-plugin-depend

by es-tooling

An ESLint plugin for suggesting optimisations in choice of dependency, native equivalents, etc.

🧰 Tools, eslint, optimisation


oq

by Alex Pliutau

Terminal OpenAPI Spec viewer

🧰 Tools, openapi, viewer, terminal


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