Fellow Engineers: This is where your money comes from

Are We Really Engineers?

This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here. I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU woks. But now he was the test subject for my new project, to see if it was going to be fruitful or a waste of time.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026

More than 30K technologists from 169 countries have shared their thoughts with us, and now it’s time to share everything we’ve learned with you. So let’s dive into this year’s Annual Developer Survey.

Engineering Career Paths at Big Tech and High-Growth Startups

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Gergely Orosz on Twitter / X

What can us, engineers else learn from designers and design engineers? Turns out there’s lots, based on talking with one of the best design engineers in the industry, @Mappletons.Timestamps:00:00 Intro03:24 From anthropology to tech10:18 What does a designer do?18:23 How… pic.twitter.com/wFlNLnUdTI— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) September 23, 2026

We are all Product Engineers now | Seldo.com

Agents are eating the software development lifecycle from the bottom up — code generation already gone, review and ops following fast. What remains is figuring out what people actually want, which can't be automated or scaled. That job is called product engineering, it pays $240k, and nobody's training for it.

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.

SF: A Birds of a Feather on Agentic Engineering

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

How tech workers are feeling in 2026: a workforce splitting in two

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How I’d start my engineering career today

If you could start your engineering career over today, here’s what actually matters now that AI has made most coding skills nearly worthless.

GRPC From Scratch

Depth-first search into networking, programming, web development and random tech topics by a bored software engineer.

PCXN + Decent Tech 7/28 5:30-7:30pm (it’s Free)! — Art Design Xchange

Are you sick of relying on billionaire-controlled platforms to get the word out about what matters to you? There's never been a better time to join decentralized, ethical social media. Come to the first Decent Tech meetup to learn about the other options out there and even sign up for one or tw

Hey! I'm Isaac

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

You have to beat the models at something

In 2025, I wrote that software engineers ought to be assessed by “value over replacement”: not how much money they made for their company, but how much they…

Stack Overflow puts a new spin on resumes for developers | TechCrunch

Stack Overflow, the community site best known for providing answers for all of your random coding questions, also has a thriving jobs board and provides

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023

In May 2023 over 90,000 developers responded to our annual survey about how they learn and level up, which tools they're using, and which ones they want.