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Benchmarks Are Free Now

Ruby Instance Variables Are Not Inherited (and Why That Breaks Your DSL)

Generating AI Descriptions of Automated Pull Requests

Coding with AI Agents is Now a Baseline Expectation for Managers

How I Made $360 by Serving Markdown to A.I. agents from My Jekyll Blog

Opening Proprietary Code to Contributors Checklist

AI Slop: A Slack API Rate Limiting Disaster

Right-Sizing Engineering Teams for AI

The Golden Ratio of Manager to IC

Serving Markdown for AI Agents

Turning Hypermedia APIs into MCPs

Using AI to Reduce the Burden of Status Reporting

How to Disagree and Commit like Switzerland

Don't Tell Engineers What to Do

Using Claude Code with Google Sheets

I Failed to Implement the Diameter of a Binary Tree in a Coding Interview

Using Claude-Swarm to Upgrade Ruby Projects

Pros and Cons of Going from Individual Contributor Back to Manager

Executing Structured A.I. Workflows with Shopify Roast

Apologizing for My Obsessiveness Over Punctuation

Leaving Amazon

Should You Work on Weekends?

Meeting Open Source Users Where They Are

Adding a Spell Checker to a Jekyll Blog

I Participated in 2882 Meetings in 5 Years

Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects

Harvesting the Low Hanging Fruit in Open Source Projects

How to Grow Open-Source Contributors and Maintainers

Creating an OpenSearch Cluster with Dangling Indexes

Safely Passing Ruby Variables to JavaScript in ERB