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The Craft of 1:1s and Feedback — A Practical Guide for Both ICs and Managers
How to turn ritualistic 1:1s into a real growth tool. Covers agenda templates, a 20-question manager library, a comparison of SBI, COIN and Radical Candor, five difficult-feedback scripts, and safe upward feedback phrasi
2026-06-12 · 18 min read #one-on-one#feedback#management#communication#cultureCut Meetings in Half — Designing Async Collaboration and Deep Work
From calculating the true cost of meeting overload to a sync/async decision matrix, a written standup template, deep work block design, notification hygiene, and a 4-week transition plan. A concrete playbook for transpla
2026-06-12 · 23 min read #async#deep-work#remote-work#productivity#meetingsThe Hands That Build Surveillance — Developer Ethics and Privacy Engineering
From the Larry Ellison remark about constant recording, to the walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle, to mandatory age verification — the 2026 surveillance debate ultimately plays out in the hands of the
2026-06-12 · 21 min read #privacy#ethics#surveillance#engineering#cultureOSS Maintainers vs AI Contributions — The Questions Raised by the jqwik Affair
The anti-AI measures taken by the maintainer of jqwik, the JVM property-based testing engine, set HN and GeekNews ablaze in June 2026. This post offers a balanced look at the asymmetric burden AI contributions place on m
2026-06-12 · 18 min read #opensource#ai#maintainer#contribution-policy#community2026 Developer Job Market Survival Guide — Resumes and Job Search Strategy in the Age of AI Screening
How to survive the 2026 hiring market, where AI screening is universal and applications have exploded. Covers an impact-driven resume formula, ATS tactics, portfolio strategy, referral scripts, and salary negotiation, al
2026-06-12 · 18 min read #career#resume#job-search#interview#networkingThe 30x AI Engineer Is Defined by Taste, Not Speed
An introduction to and expansion of the widely discussed Substack essay How to be a 30x AI engineer with taste. As AI commoditizes code production, the differentiator becomes evaluative judgment — deciding what to build
2026-06-12 · 19 min read #ai#career#engineering-culture#productivity#code-reviewThe Developer Who Works in Writing — Design Docs, ADRs, and Persuasive Technical Writing
Why writing is the senior engineer leverage skill, practical templates for design docs and ADRs, the craft of documents that survive review, bad-writing before/after fixes, and how to use AI for writing without losing yo
2026-06-12 · 22 min read #technical-writing#design-docs#adr#documentation#careerRebuilding the Second Brain — Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) in the AI Era
Designing a PKM system that turns notes into real knowledge amid information overload. Covers the essence of Zettelkasten and PARA, how AI changed the role of notes, a recipe for querying your notes with local LLMs and e
2026-06-12 · 16 min read #pkm#productivity#obsidian#zettelkasten#aiThe Revival of Hardware Hackathons — Making Things in an Era When Software Got Boring
Now that AI lets anyone build a software demo, hardware hackathons are reviving as the way to stand out. We cover the argument of the viral RIP software hackathons post, a comparison of starter hardware stacks, MicroPyth
2026-06-12 · 15 min read #hardware#hackathon#maker#raspberry-pi#esp32Artisans and Builders — Where Developers Should Stand When LLMs Erode Their Careers
Built around two essays — Artisans and builders from the Stack Overflow blog and the HN-viral LLMs are eroding my software engineering career — this post redefines developer identity in the AI era. It covers the democrat
2026-06-12 · 22 min read #career#ai#engineering-culture#llm#senior-engineerKeycloak Authorization Services — Fine-Grained Access Control with UMA 2.0
A deep dive into Keycloak Authorization Services that goes beyond the limits of RBAC. Covers the resource/scope/policy/permission model, the UMA 2.0 grant flow, policy enforcer configuration, decision strategies, and how
2026-06-12 · 16 min read #keycloak#authorization#uma#oauth2#security2026 IAM Trends — AI Agent Identity, MCP Authentication, Verifiable Credentials
The 2026 IAM landscape is being reshaped by passwordless-by-default, an explosion of non-human identities in the form of AI agents, and the OAuth 2.1-based standardization of MCP authorization. From on-behalf-of delegati
2026-06-12 · 16 min read #iam#oauth2#mcp#ai-agent#keycloakThe Charm of Small Languages — Janet, Lua, and the World of Embeddable Scripting
The essay Why Janet is back on the HN front page, and interest in small embeddable languages is reviving. From the success story of Lua to the design philosophy of Janet, hands-on C embedding examples, an introduction to
2026-06-12 · 16 min read #janet#lua#embedded-scripting#dsl#programming-languagesLocal-First Software Design — An Alternative Architecture for the Age of Cloud Fatigue
As cloud fatigue grows in 2026, local-first architecture is back in the spotlight. From the seven ideals of Ink and Switch to sync engine design, using CRDTs from a design perspective, an ecosystem comparison of Electric
2026-06-12 · 19 min read #local-first#architecture#crdt#sync-engine#offline-firstCan an Imitation Machine Discover — The Sutton Provocation and the RL Counterattack
Rich Sutton, the godfather of reinforcement learning, set the community ablaze in June 2026 by arguing that generative AI trained with supervised learning is an imitation model and therefore limited for genuinely new sci
2026-06-12 · 22 min read #ai#reinforcement-learning#llm#research#ai-agentWhose Words Does the AI Speak — The German Ruling That Made Google Liable for AI Overviews
In June 2026 a German court classified Google AI Overviews not as a listing of search results but as speech by Google itself, holding the company directly liable for false answers. We dissect the reasoning, the clash wit
2026-06-12 · 22 min read #ai#law#liability#rag#governanceContext Engineering — How to Design Memory for AI Agents
The era of prompt engineering is fading, and context engineering has emerged as the core skill. This post covers the economics of the context window, memory tier design, patterns for automatically extracting facts from c
2026-06-12 · 17 min read #ai#context-engineering#llm#ai-agent#memoryHow to Review AI-Written Code — Redesigning Code Review
The surge of AI-generated code has made code review the biggest bottleneck in the development pipeline. This post covers how defect patterns differ between human and AI code, redesigning review strategy around spec compa
2026-06-12 · 18 min read #ai#code-review#ai-agent#engineering-culture#open-sourceLoop Engineering — Design the System That Prompts Your Agent
The era of manually prompting an agent every turn is ending. This post covers plan-act-verify-self-correct loop design, verification loops that wire tests and linters into agent feedback, how to design repo-level guide f
2026-06-12 · 16 min read #ai#loop-engineering#ai-agent#claude-code#devopsBuilding MCP Servers in Practice — How to Connect Your Tools to Every AI Agent
A hands-on guide to building MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, the de facto standard of 2026. We implement an internal wiki search server in TypeScript and Python, and cover tool design principles, OAuth 2.1 authenti
2026-06-12 · 17 min read #mcp#ai-agent#typescript#python#oauth2