Technical content expert, developer education leader, author, educator, mentor, and software developer. I develop people, content, and code. He/Him.
Wisconsin
Joined December 2007
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The person on the stage or the person who wrote that book isn’t better than you.
They just took a shot.
Don’t be afraid to take yours and share your knowledge.
And don’t listen to anyone who tells you you’re not good enough.
Especially the voice in your head. It’s a jerk.
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I just discovered an awesome compression algorithm: your 4000 word blog post can be compressed down to the prompt you gave Claude to write it.
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it’s kinda funny watching people get mad about the text watermarking in LLMs. “word choice matters!”
if you feel so strongly about that, have you considered… choosing the words yourself?
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hot take: work for people, not companies. ive watched candidates turn down bigger titles and higher salaries because they met the manager and thought, i want to work for this person. theyre almost always happier
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Agents writing docs seems pointless to me.
1) Their explanations are overcomplicated and poorly written.
2) Any user or contributor can use _their_ agent to generate the same output just-in-time, and it will be more accurate and more tailored to that person.
3) Agents will not, on their own, try to elicit the "why" behind a change unless the user prompts them to (at which point, why not just write the fockin thing yourself you lazy bum)
Don't commit anything to a repo that an agent can just generate on-demand at any time.
My deepest sympathy for the people responsible for responding to the GitHub incidents and outages lately, but at some point Microsoft needs to show some accountability for turning a platform millions of developers trust with their work into a risky dependency.
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Experienced engineering managers have all seen the new engineer that walks in, shits on a vendor tool that the team is using, and promises that they can build a better version of it in a week. Even if they get it built, within months, the internal solution becomes abandon-ware.
With AI dev tools this phenomenon is becoming far more prevalent.
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If you tell your team not to work after hours or on the weekend, you have to make sure you’re following that rule too.
I used to think I could get away with it because I have high trust with my engineers, but that was wrong lol Especially in this economy and with the fact that there are so many bad managers out there.
People are afraid of falling behind or being laid off and many have experienced managers that pretend they’re lax when in reality, they’re keeping score without communicating clearly and honestly to their people.
As a leader, you set the standard and it’s important that you practice what you preach.
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This is a good time to share that link in your Slack/Discord channels one more time and remind your Rails friends that they have a few days to participate. 🤗
📊 Only a few days left to participate in the 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey. Give your input and share it with your team! railsdeveloper.com/survey/
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I have complex feelings about Ruby and Rails. But I respect that both of them started from "We are HUMANS, with MINDS that have SPECIFIC SHAPES!" I fear we'll never see programming tools with that level of humanity again. They're organic, but still uncompromisingly software.
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What really drives leaders to resist remote work isn't productivity. It’s ego.
Our new data: Ordering people in full-time is a power & status move. Bosses want to be worshiped at the office altar.
Policies shouldn’t be vanity projects. Hybrid is better for people & performance.
nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opini…
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“We’re going to shove AI into every service, and in the process jack component prices so high that nobody can afford devices to use those services with” is quite the cunning plan, industry.
I would love to be able to use my computer or video game system for more than one day without some app nagging me for an upgrade.
Sometimes it's the same app with multiple updates per week. It feels sloppy.
Nest was down today but Google’s status page said all was fine.
It’s so depressing when companies can’t (or won’t) be transparent about outages.
Did you know I made a link page generator? It’s like linktree but it just gives you an HTML page you can post anywhere. And it’s free. bphogan.com/linkmaker/
Ok, @temporalio comes through again. I posted a message through my custom posting system yesterday, and the posting to X failed. They deprecated the API I used. Today I corrected the issue and the Workflow completed. No code changes or restarts.
I love @tailscale. Whether I'm at a coffee shop or a doctor's office, I'm safely routing traffic back home, with access to my servers, my local LLMs, and even my cloud servers. The fact that I get to work there with a great team is even better.
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Much, much better benchmark than vague claims I've seen about Ruby "being more token efficient". Neat!
I benchmarked which language works best with Claude Code. Ruby, Python, and JavaScript came out cheapest,
fastest, and most stable!
See my article in detail: dev.to/mame/which-programmin…
