As a former startup founder turned tech blogger, I’ve seen my share of bold experiments. Anthropic’s recent Project Vend—where their AI, Claude Sonnet 3.7, ran a vending machine business—caught my eye. Tasked with selling tungsten cubes in their San Francisco office, Claude was supposed to turn a profit. Spoiler: it lost $200 in a month. …
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I recently stumbled upon this gem of a dissertation "What Makes a Great Software Engineer" by Paul Luo Li (2016), and it’s a treasure trove of insights about what makes a software engineer truly stand out. Li, a University of Washington Ph.D. grad, dove deep into this by interviewing 59 top-notch Microsoft engineers, surveying nearly …
Some tech managers have a dangerous habit: they dodge problems that overrun timelines or budgets like they’re avoiding a plague. You’ve heard it before—phrases like, “I don’t want to hear about the bugs,” or “Let’s not talk about <delayed feature>.” They act as if ignoring the issue will make it disappear. Ignoring reality won't fix …
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Be careful trying to placate the ESlint machine. Global functions and global constructor methods of the same name are not guaranteed to produce the same result.
My top takeaways from Serverless Days Sydney 2019.
Unfortunatley you cannot write comments in JSON files. Here are a couple of workarounds for commenting in JSON files.
My new package releasd today to github and npm `@lukeaus/plain-tree` to help you construct, search and manage JavaScript trees and nodes.
My top 10 JavaScript podcasts from 1 to 10!
Want to quickly spin up a web server to serve some static content? Here is a few ways to do it in a single line.
Need to use different public/private key pairs for different environments? You can use iTerm2's profiles with environment variable GIT_SSH_COMMAND to make handling multiple keys easier.
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