I’m leaving developer relations and developer education. Rather than disappear completely unannounced, I wanted to tell you why.
Farewell Stack Exchange
I am no longer a part of Stack Exchange. I still have much literal and figurative stock in the success of Stack Exchange, of course, but as of March 1st I will no longer be part of the day to day operations of the company, or the Stack Exchange sites,
The Death of Software Development
The job of software developer is dead. You might still be coding, but the profession as you knew it is gone.
Why I’m Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass | René Mayrhofer
I am forced to leave Google with 2026-08-31 because of the deal with the US Department of War, which is incompatible with my ethical principles.
Everyone's Packing Up
I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Dis...
Community Software is Dead
I just got back into the “community software” category after an eight year hiatus. The customers, analysts and consultants are still…
What will be left for us to work on?
ICML 2026 invited keynote — slides and edited transcript, presented click-by-click as delivered. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University.
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails. I wish you all the best!
Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun
We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.
Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun
We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.
The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits
When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.
The death of the junior developer
LLMs are putting pressure on junior tech jobs. Learn how to stay ahead.
Staying in the game I'm four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it's time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I'm... toni.org/2026/07/10/staying-in-the-gam…
Staying in the game
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