26 April 2025

19 links · Saturday

Vibe Coding Is Fun—But Vibe Refactoring Pays the Bills

So let’s flip the script to something that actually compounds: vibe refactoring. Same spontaneous energy, but aimed at shrinking technical debt and sharpening your architecture instead of amping up the commit count.

New Manager Survival Guide

Everything they don’t teach you about becoming a manager. Raw lessons, real advice, and survival tactics for first-time leaders.

The Seven-Year Rule - MacSparky

Years ago, I encountered a fascinating concept in a book by the Dalai Lama: every seven years, human beings transform into entirely new versions of themselves. This idea stems from the biological principle that our bodies replace virtually all their cells over…

TPSV

Despite CSV (Comma-Separated-Values) being ubiquitous, its cousin TSV (Tab-Separated-Values) has direct advantages over CSV in many situations. Tab characters don’t normally occur in the data being encoded, which avoids the need for quoting. Moreover, if your …

9/11's Impacts on Critical Infrastructure

The functioning of society depends on collective confidence in the government’s guarantee of our security. On September 11, as that confidence shattered in a...

It's a C+ at best

A mindset to have balanced expectations about adopting AI at work

An end to all this prostate trouble?

The prostate gland causes entirely too many problems. In the US, prostate cancer kills about one man of every forty. “Benign prostate hyperplasia” (BPH) is even more common, affecting most men over age 60. It pinches the urinary tract, making it hard to uri…

That joke isn't funny any more

In 2003, I wrote a book called Crap Towns. It seemed funny at the time. But plenty of people say it would not be possible to publish it today. Is that a problem?

Weekly Recap - 2025-04-25

Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#!