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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  AI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people.

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  The reason for this hardline stance is that we believe in the value of human thought and experience, as told by people with first-hand knowledge. It’s also about the audience: The “audience” for AI-written code is usually a machine, whereas the writing in Pragmatic Engineer is for humans, by humans. AI produces a statistical average in its output which creates uniform, dull text that’s an inferior reading experience to human writing – at least today it is.

  blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Omarchy could reasonably switch its packaging system to Nix.

  OmarchyNix

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  A nix based Omarchy would be amazing. Want to see this!

  @mitsuhiko on Xx.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Omarchy could reasonably switch its packaging system to Nix.

  OmarchyNix

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  Maybe Nix is like Rust: Amazing if you don't have to look at the code! I'm open to the idea that Omarchy Cinque could switch packaging system if I never have to look at nixlang, there are no ergonomic regressions, and we have full repo sovereignty.

  @dhh on Xx.com

Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.

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  Shared cloud infrastructure makes it hard to get stable, reproducible performance-testing conditions.

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  This is basically impossibly to accomplish using most cloud infrastructure since those are almost always shared with countless other users.

  curl performancedaniel.haxx.se

Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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  First, Refactoring, Domain-Driven Design, and the Pragmatic Programmer are all classics for a reason. Amazing books, and mandatory reads. Working Effectively with Legacy Code deserves all its praise, and of course everyone (yes, really) should check out the Mythical Man-Month.

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  The Mythical Man-Month

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  First, Refactoring, Domain-Driven Design, and the Pragmatic Programmer are all classics for a reason. Amazing books, and mandatory reads. Working Effectively with Legacy Code deserves all its praise, and of course everyone (yes, really) should check out the Mythical Man-Month.

  adamtornhill.substack.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  For a web developer Linux is simply better than the Mac: closer to what you deploy on, with phenomenal tooling and a reproducible setup.

  Linux

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  But I have come to realize that as a web developer, Linux is just better. Linux is just better. It's closer to what I deploy on. The tooling is actually phenomenal.

  Their words now

  anyone who's working with the web, who's working with Ruby, who's doing DevOps, they should be on Linux because first of all, that's closer to what we deploy.

Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  An app's encryption claims can only be verified with open source and reproducible builds, which WhatsApp has never offered.

  open source

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  You need reproducible builds in order to verify that the app really does what it claims, really encrypts data in a way that it is described on its website. For that you need to make your apps open source for any researchers to have a look at it.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  Dirtbag Rich: High Freedom, Low Income, Deep Purpose

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  This book is a short but inspiring take on living life on your terms while being pragmatic about money and how to make it happen. Reminds me of a less travel-centric Vagabonding.

  pathlesspath.com

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  Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

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  A more how-to pragmatic version of carving your own path. Includes some personal story of reinvention but more on experimentation that challenges our default scripts of success and ambition.

  pathlesspath.com

Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  On Writing Well

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  and this book helps grow with simple and pragmatic suggestions. (My rating: ★★★★★)

  blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  Nix is worth switching your day-to-day package management to, over Homebrew.

  Nixdeveloper tools

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  I’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.

  Their words now

  I’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me