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 also …
ChatGPT and LLMs amplify both insight and illusion. They are not knowledge engines, but confidence engines shaping how we think and learn.
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
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.
November 05, 2025 • work, economics, automation
Learn how to manage your manager through clarity, influence, early signals and trust. Practical tactics to work better with leaders and avoid surprises.
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 not its…
This is my Code BEAM Europe 2025 talk, converted to a blogpost.
My new open-source side project to automate changelogs, versioning, and publishing... even for monorepos across multiple package registries.
Abigail Adegbiji • November 9, 2025
The evidence that ChatGPT knows my IP geolocation.
UUIDv7 was added to PostgreSQL 18 to support time-based UUIDs, but you don't have to upgrade to take advantage of them now.
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.
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.
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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: