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Amazon Promotes Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, Unveils 17th Leadership Principle(opens in new tab)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the promotion of Malphas to Senior Vice President of Bad Decisions, effective immediately. In this expanded role, Malphas will oversee the company’s strategic initiatives in byzantine pricing models, confusing product nomenclature, and Generative AI. ...
Better Auth is so good that I **almost** switched programming languages(opens in new tab)
Better Auth is so good that I almost switched programming languages When it comes to building APIs and services, my go-to language of choice is well, Go.
236: Git Tips for Testing - Adam Johnson(opens in new tab)
In this episode, host Brian Okken and guest Adam Johnson explore essential Git features, highlighted by Adam's updated book, "Boost Your Git DX." Key topics include "cherry picking" for selective commits"git stash" for managing in-progress work"git diff", and specifically its ...
The Math Is Haunted(opens in new tab)
A taste of Lean.
How I set up my Dygma Defy keyboard layers(opens in new tab)
Gotta love those Superkeys.
Logging Privacy Shenanigans(opens in new tab)
Apple's logs redact your debugging data as . Here's what actually gets hidden, why old tricks don't work anymore, and the only reliable way to see your logs again.
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #30(opens in new tab)
The Balanced Engineer Newsletter Week of July 28, 2025 • Issue # 30 🔧 Technical Excellence Building skills that last beyond any framework Why it feels like AI can reason by Annie Sexton (Youtube Video) Summary: This philosophical video…
The Fastest Site in the Tour de France(opens in new tab)
How fast are pro cycling teams’ and manufacturers’ websites? A CrRRUX-powered deep dive into bike brand performance, visibility, and missed opportunities.
Why I’m not letting the juniors use GenAI for coding(opens in new tab)
TLDR: because I want them to become seniors one day, and I want them to enjoy being developers
Ep 15: Real Edition(opens in new tab)
It's been almost a year since our last episode, we've all lost our jobs to AI, and we're going to another Laracon! Life is good!Laracon!DirenvCursorGhosttyFind us on X@campfirecoders / @austencam / @jesseleite85Email [email protected]
Ep 15x: Season Two Intro(opens in new tab)
We're back and ready for (drumroll...) Campfire Coders: SEASON TWO!Join us as we discuss our sophisticated and intricate plans for the future of this podcast! 😎Find us on X@campfirecoders / @austencam / @jesseleite85Email [email protected]
Making Sense of the Performance Extensibility API(opens in new tab)
Making sense — and use! — of the new Performance Extensibility API in Chrome DevTools.
Becoming a High Taste Tester(opens in new tab)
theres a specific reason why i'm writing this post i can't disclose yet. but am sharing my prep work in public
Best Free Synthesizer Plugins in 2025(opens in new tab)
I am convinced that it makes total sense to spend a certain amount of your (spare) time on this planet tinkering around and exploring stuff that seems totally useless or silly compared to what you normally do. And without having ...
Dollar Driven(opens in new tab)
The only data that matters
Your freeform digital character sheet for D&D 5e(opens in new tab)
Amazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities(opens in new tab)
Today 404Media released a truly stunning report that almost beggars belief. The post Amazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities appeared first on Last Week in AWS.
235: pytest-django - Adam Johnson(opens in new tab)
In this episode, special guest Adam Johnson joins the show and examines pytest-django, a popular plugin among Django developers. He highlights its advantages over the built-in unittest framework, including improved test management and debugging. Adam addresses transition challenges, evolving fixture ...
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #29(opens in new tab)
The Balanced Engineer Newsletter Week of July 21, 2025 • Issue # 29 🔧 Technical Excellence Building skills that last beyond any framework How to review code effectively: A GitHub staff engineer's philosophy by Sarah Vessels (The GitHub…
Put your phone down(opens in new tab)
Is this how we're living our lives now?
VibeTunnel's first AI-anniversary(opens in new tab)
It's been one month since we released the first version of VibeTunnel, and since in the AI world time is so much faster, let's call it VibeTunnel's first anniversary!
Terminal Trove Talks with Orhun Parmaksız(opens in new tab)
Terminal Trove Talks with Orhun Parmaksız, one of the core maintainers of Ratatui, a modern terminal UI library built in the Rust programming language.
Cooling Infrastructure with Ellie Ford(opens in new tab)
https://fafo.fm/storeThis Episode has a full spread of FAFOFM topics. Ellie has a breadth of knowledge across cloud, on-prem, hardware, and—of course—Kubernetes. We dive into some of the new hardware available as well as the importance of hardware to train the ...
My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs(opens in new tab)
One of my favorite AI dev products today is Full Line Code Completion in PyCharm (bundled with the IDE since late 2023). It’s extremely well-thought out, unintrusive, and makes me a more effective developer. Most importantly, it still keeps me ...
Why Women in Tech isn't enough(opens in new tab)
Real progress needs systemic change and active involvement from men in positions of power.
LLM basics and its applications(opens in new tab)
Technical innovations often offer numerous applications with tremendous added value, making work easier. However, this also increases the potential for misuse, with the opposite effect—whether deliberately or through improper use. This also applies to advances in the field of Artificial ...
Terminal Trove June 2025 Wrap Up(opens in new tab)
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in June 2025.
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #28(opens in new tab)
The Balanced Engineer Newsletter Week of July 14, 2025 • Issue # 28 🔧 Technical Excellence Building skills that last beyond any framework Learnings from two years of using AI tools for software engineering by Birgitta Böckeler and…
Your Order Number Is Everyone’s Order Number(opens in new tab)
A self-checkout system so broken it deserves it's own blog post.
Tech Founder? Entrepreneur? This is why you should avoid React.js in your app(opens in new tab)
“React isn’t just slow — it’s a bloated ecosystem with technical debt baked into its DNA. Yet despite this, it keeps being chosen. Why?”
Gemini Nano in Chrome 137: notes for AI Engineers(opens in new tab)
at long last, Gemini Nano is almost here for all Chrome users (i was originally misinformed that it was in Chrome 138 - but i checked my own facts and since Chrome 137+ it is…
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #27(opens in new tab)
The Balanced Engineer Newsletter Week of July 7, 2025 • Issue # 27 🔧 Technical Excellence Building skills that last beyond any framework Prefer gaps to margins by Kyle Shevlin (Kyle's blog) Summary: This article argues that CSS gaps are…
Lab Update(opens in new tab)
Update on the lab setup and what I've been working on recently.
notes from Naval (2025)(opens in new tab)
someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky" (henceforth HTGR) is formative to a lot of my thinking, including How to…
Making AppleScript Work in macOS CLI Tools: The Undocumented Parts(opens in new tab)
How to make AppleScript work in macOS CLI tools without permission dialogs blaming Terminal. A deep dive into Info.plist embedding, TCC, and undocumented APIs born from building Terminator MCP.
Peekaboo 2.0 – Free the CLI from its MCP shackles(opens in new tab)
Peekaboo 2.0 ditches the MCP-only approach for a CLI-first architecture, because CLIs are the universal interface that both humans and AI agents can actually use effectively
Ditching Cloud APIs: How I Set Up Local Text-to-Speech with Kokoro TTS and Python(opens in new tab)
Today, I fired up the Voices macOS app, which I occasionally use to convert blog posts or documentation text to audio files that I can take on the go. I usually use one of OpenAI’s Text to speech APIs, but ...
Command your Claude Code Army, Reloaded(opens in new tab)
Enhance your Claude Code workflow with VibeTunnel terminal title management for better multi-session tracking
Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers(opens in new tab)
A curated collection of must-read articles and videos for mastering Claude Code, agentic coding workflows, and the future of AI-assisted development
React Still Feels Insane And No One Is Talking About It(opens in new tab)
“It would be too easy to just say React is, well, downright insane, and go on with our lives. But as reasonable primates, I believe we can do better. We can try to understand it.”
The Balanced Engineer • Issue #26(opens in new tab)
The Balanced Engineer Newsletter Week of June 30, 2025 • Issue # 26 Hey there! I'm thrilled you're here for what feels like a fresh start for The Balanced Engineer. After some reflection, I realized I was trying to force ...
How I Accidentally Set Fire to My Netlify Bandwidth Quota(opens in new tab)
A cautionary tale about what happens when your cynical developer blog gets popular before you learn how to compress images.
My Honest Take on the BenQ RD280U Programming Monitor After Three Months of Daily Use(opens in new tab)
A few months ago, I made the jump from my trusty dual 24-inch setup to the BenQ RD280U Programming Monitor. The switch happened after I had a chance to test one during the Web Dev Challenge—Jason connected our team with ...
You MUST listen to RFC 2119(opens in new tab)
Pairing-up on a CDN PURGE with Elixir(opens in new tab)
Listen to the full pairing session for pull request #549. The focus is on replacing an existing Fastly implementation with Jerod's Pipedream, which is built on top of the open-source Varnish HTTP Cache. We cover the initial problem, the proposed ...
Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens(opens in new tab)
“My day-to-day consulting work, along with high-visibility industry data, shows that the React community is mired in a deep, measurable quality crisis. But attendees of React Summit who didn't already know wouldn't hear about it.”
Agile That Doesn’t Suck Pt 2/2(opens in new tab)
Agile isn’t broken—it’s just been overcomplicated, overcontrolled, and oversold. Here’s how to rebuild it from the inside, one useful change at a time.