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I like em dashes, and I hate that some people now take them as evidence of text being AI generated.

I remember Google's big keynotes feeling like a cheap copy of Apple's. That age is over. What a tour de force. Incredible bandwidth and breadth.

A neat history of Microsoft developer tools over the last 50 years by @ricomariani. https://t.co/YZQZVvuwRh

How do you get to staff engineer? You can’t just “level up” by doing good work. You have to change how you operate. @nitin_dhar shares his tips in

New issue of Leadership in Tech is out with practical guide to working with your manager. Apart from that you'll learn to have more productive 1:1s and build stronger engineering culture. Check it out: https://t.co/N13tVE0f4M

I designed Dropbox's storage system and modeled its durability. Durability numbers (11 9's etc) are meaningless because competent providers don't lose data because of disk failures, they lose data because of bugs and operator error. Yes S3 has lost data. No it wasn't because

Strategy is: * Identifying the most critical challenge in a situation. * Addressing this challenge with some kind of coherent approach. * Having coordinating actions focused on overcoming this challenge . Strategy is not: * A catchphrase (“Whatever it takes.”). * A vision

How to scale your startup by Moly Graham. Lessons on effective delegation and more. Here insights comes from her time at Google (from 25 to 125 in just 9 months). And 4 years at Facebook (from 500 employees serving 80 million users to 5,500 employees and over 1.1 billion users).

Insights from Sean Goedecke on how to be more effective as a senior engineer by making side bets. 10-20% of your time should be spent on something that you find importand for the company. But it is not in your backlog or roadmap. If it works, tell everyone. If it fails, move

@levelsio As someone who’s done it a couple times, there are worse things in life than being stuck in 20 hours of weekly meetings where you say “yeah let’s push this to Q3 2026” and having to fly business class to Tokyo once a quarter for $5M TC.

It's amazing to see how to search at scale. I'm happy with mostly Postgres full-text search but this is on another level. https://t.co/H98v085dT7

The latest Leadership in Tech newsletter dropped out on Monday. I covered: * assertions * future-proofing your career in AI * how to be a proactive employee * strategic thinking principles and * the function of strategy. Check it out at: https://t.co/84O1dYQber

I follow over 700 authors and bloggers via RSS feeds and go through around new 250 articles each day. At the end of the week I publish my curated newsletters with only the top 5 articles that I liked the most. It's heaps of work but it's worth it. I find interesting content so

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The latest issue #239 of Leadership in Tech is out. We learn about effective cross-functional collaboration, prioritization techniques, and the myth of objectivity in strategy. And we look into core values for organizational success and insights on leading from the front. In

Neat. The twitter cards thingie is working!

And the last issue of Programming Digest from the last week. https://t.co/rwLPLzklB6

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In last week's Leadership in Tech issue, you can explore how engineering managers stay tech-savvy, tackle difficult employees, understand entrepreneurial mindsets, and recognize key traits for exceptional coworkers.

What's better to write about on the blog than yak shaving your blog. https://t.co/MOBGGUgIN4