The software engineer career is dead
The ‘AI killed the dev career’ headline is wrong. Here’s why now is actually a great time to start in software.
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AI coding tools and the 5 stages of grief
Developers aren’t just adapting to AI - we’re grieving. A field guide to the five stages, with sample dialogue.
Once you go DuckDB
DuckDB is the newest game-changer in data analytics: serverless, just-a-file, and faster than Postgres or SQLite for the analytics queries you actually want to run.
7 strategies to figure out what you want
Twenty years of trying things - career breaks, travel, study, side projects, therapy - and what each one taught me about the question we all keep asking ourselves.
AI code generation tips #1: use comments
When you need to make small changes to existing code, don’t try to describe everything in one long prompt. Add TODO comments where the changes belong, and let the AI sweep through them.
Echo 'Hello, world!'
First post - a quiet hello and a note on what I plan to write about here.