Time to start de-Appling – Hi, I'm Heather Burns I‘ve done such a thorough job of de-Googling that I forgot to show up for a meeting with someone, because I hadn’t checked my Google calendar in ages. (No, they were not amused.) In my defense, I proceeded to explain to them that having de-Googled, I was ...
LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger ChatGPT and LLMs amplify both insight and illusion. They are not knowledge engines, but confidence engines shaping how we think and learn.
The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions Two patches queued into the Linux kernel's build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the -fms-extensions compiler argument everywhere for allowing GCC and LLVM/Clang to use the Microsoft C Extensions when compiling the Linux kernel
XSLT.RIP - Google are killing XSLT! October 24th 2025: Google published the death note: Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Deprecate and remove XSLT Google will kill XSLT by 2027. Google first tried to kill XSLT in July 2013 twelve years ago.
Notes From an Unemployed New Grad Watching the Job Market Break | November 05, 2025 • work, economics, automation
Managing Your Manager Learn how to manage your manager through clarity, influence, early signals and trust. Practical tactics to work better with leaders and avoid surprises.
LightGBM Explained LightGBM is probably the most widely used algorithm used for machine learning tasks on tabular data. On kaggle you almost always see it in the top 10 leaderboards, yet many (and I suspect most) only understand the interface of its official library, and no...
Introducing Sampo — Goulven Clec'h My new open-source side project to automate changelogs, versioning, and publishing... even for monorepos across multiple package registries.
Using UUIDv7 with Rails without PostgreSQL 18 UUIDv7 was added to PostgreSQL 18 to support time-based UUIDs, but you don't have to upgrade to take advantage of them now.
What Small Bootstrapped Software Companies Can Learn From Michelin-Starred Restaurants Small software teams fail the same way bad restaurants do: specialized people doing good work toward different goals. Michelin kitchens prove you don't need more people or meetings. You need three layers of coordination working together.
Compiling a Call to a Block I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished.
Everything is a Spreadsheet Revisiting an old 2020 Invest Like the Best podcast that interviews John Collision, co-founder of Stripe. When asked about his thoughts on no-code: