22 July 2025

31 links · Tuesday

Tech Workers Coalition

A coalition of tech industry workers, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends cultivating solidarity among all workers in tech.

🦊 How to Firefox - Kaushik Gopal's Website

Chrome finally pulled the trigger on the web’s best ad-blocker, uBlock Origin. Now that Chrome has hobbled uBO, Firefox—my beloved—1 is surging again. I want to do my part to convince you to switch to Firefox and show you how I use it.

Jujutsu For Busy Devs | maddie, wtf?!

Jujutsu (jj) is a version control system with a significantly simplified mental model and command-line interface compared to Git, without sacrificing expressibility or power (in fact, you could argue Jujutsu is more powerful). Stacked-diff workflows, seamless …

Running scripts | uv

A guide to using uv to run Python scripts, including support for inline dependency metadata, reproducible scripts, and more.

How I found my way to contribute to OSS

Disclaimer: I do not consider myself an experienced OSS contributor, but rather someone beginning to understand how OSS actually works. A (de)motivational story Since I started programming I've...

A Kaizen for Knowledge Work

Confluence was a mess. Our documentation felt outdated, hard to navigate, and unreliable. Rather than scrap everything and start over, I decided to try something different: a Kaizen.

The Rise of Fluid Teams

In today’s world, software development needs to be super flexible but also stable. Fluid teams are a fresh new idea to help overcome that contradiction.

Mentoring junior engineers in the age of coding agents

A decent amount of digital ink has been spilled about the future of software engineering in light of increasingly powerful coding agents. Will software engineers, especially junior ones, be able to find jobs in the future as coding agents become more powerful?…

Why I'm Building a Low Cost ROV

After looking at the cost of an ROV that question has been rattling around in my head for a while now. And after lots of research and thinking, I’ve deci...

Getting into technical writing: a primer

Over the past few years I’ve talked to a number of people who are interested in getting into the technical writing field. After years of meaning to do this, I finally took some time to write up the thoughts and resources I typically share with people looking t…

SQL Injection as a Feature

Looking at old applications, we always wonder who in their right mind thought of building them so badly. But every repository has its story and every effort has noble origins. I encountered such an ap