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Let's start with two observations: #1.

AI agents are the AI engineering trend of 2025.

One month ago, I subscribed to Claude Max.

An old colleague reached out this week with a familiar frustration.

Clear and comprehensive communication skills are important for good engineers.

A friend asked me a great question this week: “Who are great engineers you know and why are they great?”.

This is a very special week for me.

I remember a situation from early on in my career where I asked my more senior coworker for some help.

Large companies are inherently number-driven.

When faced with hard choices, I'm often tempted to search for the better option as if it's hiding just beneath the surface.

You can find me on Goodreads for my up-to-date reading list.

You can deploy Cloudflare Workers via the HTTP API and thus dynamically create Workers.

The VS Code extension runtime uses Node.js (via Electron) and you can thus use Node.js related debugging tool.

Feature flags are a powerful technique that every engineer should have in their toolbox.

Good engineers ship.

If you've never come across it, I highly recommend you read up on Theorycraft.

Generative AI, whether for code, text, images, or other use cases, appears as a magic black box to many users.

Understanding and processing natural language is a complex task.

When building an AI code assistant like Cody, you often find yourself in need for a quick way to rank the similarity of two blocks of text relative to each other.

I've recently been working more with structured logging and as part of this, I wanted to build a TypeScript scheme mapper for creating table definitions.

A lot of companies love ClickHouse for it's great performance as LDAP system, incredible compression, and its ease of deployment.

This is a list of non-trivial problems I have come across in the front-end community over the past few years.

When working on complex systems, there are often more than one test parameter that changes.

Input methods Set up the US-German Keyboard layout Disable natural scrolling Maximize key repeat rate and delay until repeat Map tab key to escape in Keyboards settings Homebrew brew install --cask 1password (set up 1Password immediately) Connect iCloud a…

Being not constraint to a specific domain is one of React's killer features.

A collection of my random thoughts.

In modern applications, user interfaces often have to juggle multiple tasks at the same time.

Electron is a powerful open source framework that allows development of cross-platform desktop GUI applications with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

In late 2016, we released the first version of our Web SDK, which relies on a server component to render documents.

In March 2017, the WebAssembly Community Group reached a consensus on the initial (MVP) binary format, JavaScript API, and reference interpreter.

Several years ago, I was working on a platform for photographers to schedule the publication of their best shots on different platforms.