What a year

SF: A Birds of a Feather on Agentic Engineering

I'm Jesse. I make stuff. Software, hardware. Very occasionally, trouble.

Hey! I'm Isaac

I like building tools, breaking workflows, and putting them back together better.

Software Bonkers

I’m software bonkers: I can’t stop thinking about software. And I can’t stop building software.

Reflections on a decade of coding

I've been programming professionally for about 12 years. Here are some of the things I worked on in the last 2 years.

How Charging Money for Pro Features Allowed Me Quit My Job

Tell us about yourself and what you're working on. I'm Mike Perham. I've been a Java and Ruby software engineer for the last 20 years. I designed and bu...

Everything I own, owned

Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall

I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

ajfriesen

A home for my projects, thoughts, and ideas. Home Automation with Home Assistant, Linux things, building a Home Lab and more.

Growing a Profitable Podcast on Software Engineering

Hello! What's your background, and what are you working on? I'm Jeff Meyerson, the host of Software Engineering Daily. I grew up playing poker competiti...

Building personal tools by programming

I'm addicted to being useful

When I get together with my friends in the industry, I feel a little guilty about how much I love my job. This is a tough time to be a software engineer. The job was less stressful in the late 2010s than it is now, and I sympathize with anyone who is upset about the change. There are a lot of objective reasons to feel bad about work. But despite all that, I’m still having a blast. I enjoy pulling together projects, figuring out difficult bugs, and writing code in general. I like spending time with computers. But what I really love is being useful.

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Learning to build living software

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I'm a writer and software developer. I currently work as a technical content marketer for PostHog, a suite of tools to help developers build better products.

21 Productivity Hacks I’ve Picked Up Over the Years

A thorough list of practical productivity methods I've used and refined over the last 16 years.

Improving My Hardware Workflow With CI and Nix

One thing you might notice if you read my blog is that I do a lot of hardware projects. Generally, these include a board, some software, and possibly some extraneous components (like CAD design, such as a case). Software tooling is quite mature, but I find that hardware had traditionally lagged quite a bit behind. For a while, I just lived with this, but over the last few months I've put in a bunch of effort to improve my workflow.