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There’s (Already) An App For That
If you feel vibe coding has given you superpowers, this post is for you. As a fellow superhero with over 20 years of experience (35 or so since I got the first taste), I have some thoughts to share with you. When my non-programmer colleagues excitedly tell me about the apps they are prompting Claude…
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How to help me notice your job application
A part of my job as tech lead is to help my team find the right new people to work with us. That process always starts with reading and, to put it bluntly, ranking applications. While doing that, and going through hundreds of applications, I have made some observations which, looking back to my earlier…
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On Blogging
Do you remember the time before Facebook and social media took over, when we would gather at people’s personal web spaces to read each other’s thoughts and discuss them? For quite a while already, I’ve found myself longing those years when we got quite close to having the perfect online platforms: the personal website and…