Dimitri Kandassamy
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Next stop: San Francisco 🛣️✨ We’re bringing the AI Agent + MCP meetup to the Bay!
Catch talks and live demos from our very own @angiejones.tech, as well as speakers from @anthropic.com, @cloudflare.social, @supabase.com, and more! 🔥
Space is limited so RSVP now to grab your spot!
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Catch talks and live demos from our very own @angiejones.tech, as well as speakers from @anthropic.com, @cloudflare.social, @supabase.com, and more! 🔥
Space is limited so RSVP now to grab your spot!
lu.ma/3n6re3xt
AI Agent HackNight with MCP: San Francisco · Luma
MCP is rapidly changing the landscape of what's possible for developer tools while broadly, AI is changing the way we work.
Let's explore this together! Join…
lu.ma
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Next stop: San Francisco 🛣️✨ We’re bringing the AI Agent + MCP meetup to the Bay!
Catch talks and live demos from our very own @angiejones.tech, as well as speakers from @anthropic.com, @cloudflare.social, @supabase.com, and more! 🔥
Space is limited so RSVP now to grab your spot!
lu.ma/3n6re3xt
Catch talks and live demos from our very own @angiejones.tech, as well as speakers from @anthropic.com, @cloudflare.social, @supabase.com, and more! 🔥
Space is limited so RSVP now to grab your spot!
lu.ma/3n6re3xt
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We released Phi4 reasoning models yesterday, which are just 14B parameters. This chart showing how they compare to models that are many times larger demonstrates how high-quality training data and RL techniques create high-density intelligence: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/educato...
May 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
We released Phi4 reasoning models yesterday, which are just 14B parameters. This chart showing how they compare to models that are many times larger demonstrates how high-quality training data and RL techniques create high-density intelligence: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/educato...
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Upcoming events on local-first:
• Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks
• Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)
• Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks
• Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)
Local-First Conf 2025
Join us for the second edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin 27th - 28th May 2025.
www.localfirstconf.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Upcoming events on local-first:
• Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks
• Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)
• Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks
• Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)
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Kubernetes The Hard Way has been updated. I've also resolved most of the open issues and pull requests as I set the stage to add support for both ARM64 and AMD64, making the project compatible with both CPU architectures while continuing to be cloud provider agnostic. github.com/kelseyhighto...
April 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Kubernetes The Hard Way has been updated. I've also resolved most of the open issues and pull requests as I set the stage to add support for both ARM64 and AMD64, making the project compatible with both CPU architectures while continuing to be cloud provider agnostic. github.com/kelseyhighto...
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Can't believe it's been 10 years since I posted the RTR engineering ladders publicly. Anyway, I threw together a retrospective on that:
skamille.medium.com/10-years-of-...
skamille.medium.com/10-years-of-...
10 Years of Engineering Ladders
On March 26, 2015, I posted a short blog post to the Rent the Runway engineering blog, Sharing Our Engineering Ladder, with a quick intro…
skamille.medium.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Can't believe it's been 10 years since I posted the RTR engineering ladders publicly. Anyway, I threw together a retrospective on that:
skamille.medium.com/10-years-of-...
skamille.medium.com/10-years-of-...
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I've been bogged down in writing about cost controls for the past few weeks (current status: 6k words and trying hard to edit down 🥺).. but I took an hour this morning to write up a response to @mattklein123.dev's thought-provoking take on "observability 3.0".
charity.wtf/2025/03/24/a...
charity.wtf/2025/03/24/a...
Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon
Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between the pillars model and the single unified storage model and applying “2.0” to the latter, Christi…
charity.wtf
March 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I've been bogged down in writing about cost controls for the past few weeks (current status: 6k words and trying hard to edit down 🥺).. but I took an hour this morning to write up a response to @mattklein123.dev's thought-provoking take on "observability 3.0".
charity.wtf/2025/03/24/a...
charity.wtf/2025/03/24/a...
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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
March 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
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Some people instinctively close the circle, creating an exclusive space. But if you watch Kelsey closely, you’ll notice something different, when the crowd starts to grow, he takes a step back, widening the circle so more people can join.
March 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Some people instinctively close the circle, creating an exclusive space. But if you watch Kelsey closely, you’ll notice something different, when the crowd starts to grow, he takes a step back, widening the circle so more people can join.
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Check out our Requests for Discussion, which highlight how ideas become innovative solutions buff.ly/48K2jNm
RFD / Oxide
buff.ly
March 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Check out our Requests for Discussion, which highlight how ideas become innovative solutions buff.ly/48K2jNm
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Choosing Languages steveklabnik.com/writing/choo...
Choosing Languages
steveklabnik.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Choosing Languages steveklabnik.com/writing/choo...
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The IEEE republished a lightly edited version of my recent essay, "In Praise of 'Normal' Engineers". 🙌 spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer
The greatest engineering orgs in the world are not the most pedigreed or top heavy, but the ones where normal engineers can move the business forward, day by day.
The greatest engineering orgs in the world are not the most pedigreed or top heavy, but the ones where normal engineers can move the business forward, day by day.
Why Great Engineering Orgs Thrive on "Normal" Engineers
Software engineer Charity Majors challenges the "10x engineer" myth, arguing that true productivity lies in team performance, not individual brilliance. She encourages building workplaces where "norma...
spectrum.ieee.org
March 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The IEEE republished a lightly edited version of my recent essay, "In Praise of 'Normal' Engineers". 🙌 spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer
The greatest engineering orgs in the world are not the most pedigreed or top heavy, but the ones where normal engineers can move the business forward, day by day.
The greatest engineering orgs in the world are not the most pedigreed or top heavy, but the ones where normal engineers can move the business forward, day by day.
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TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go.
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
cmd/compile: slow escape analysis in large package in the typescript compiler · Issue #72815 · golang/go
Go version go version go1.24.1 linux/amd64 Output of go env in your module/workspace: AR='ar' CC='gcc' CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_CPPFLAGS='' CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_ENABLED='1' CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g' ...
github.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go.
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.
Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.
HN: why pick Go anyway?
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Been working on this for the past few months: feels great to finally ship it! zed.dev/blog/git
Native Git support in Zed - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: You can now stage, commit, pull, push, and more, all natively within Zed.
zed.dev
March 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Been working on this for the past few months: feels great to finally ship it! zed.dev/blog/git
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This is a harmful phrasing and it’s disappointing to see it used.
Pretending that no management is happening and, worse, offering the implication that less management is “good” is a viewpoint that I wish we could evolve beyond as an industry, already.
Especially leaders: do better, and be better.
Pretending that no management is happening and, worse, offering the implication that less management is “good” is a viewpoint that I wish we could evolve beyond as an industry, already.
Especially leaders: do better, and be better.
March 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This is a harmful phrasing and it’s disappointing to see it used.
Pretending that no management is happening and, worse, offering the implication that less management is “good” is a viewpoint that I wish we could evolve beyond as an industry, already.
Especially leaders: do better, and be better.
Pretending that no management is happening and, worse, offering the implication that less management is “good” is a viewpoint that I wish we could evolve beyond as an industry, already.
Especially leaders: do better, and be better.
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I wrote a quick guide to getting started with self-hosting.
It doesn't matter what your motivations are, now is a great time to get started taking ownership and responsibility for your data.
justingarrison.com/blog/2025-03...
It doesn't matter what your motivations are, now is a great time to get started taking ownership and responsibility for your data.
justingarrison.com/blog/2025-03...
Get Started With Self-Hosting
Taking ownership of your data and services
justingarrison.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I wrote a quick guide to getting started with self-hosting.
It doesn't matter what your motivations are, now is a great time to get started taking ownership and responsibility for your data.
justingarrison.com/blog/2025-03...
It doesn't matter what your motivations are, now is a great time to get started taking ownership and responsibility for your data.
justingarrison.com/blog/2025-03...
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New updates!
- Deletes more output dirs now (pack, publish)
- `--recurse` option for recursive purging
- `--no-clean` to skip `dotnet clean` & just delete output dirs
- Using System.CommandLine (`--version` & `--help` options)
Install: dotnet tool install -g dotnet-purge
github.com/DamianEdward...
- Deletes more output dirs now (pack, publish)
- `--recurse` option for recursive purging
- `--no-clean` to skip `dotnet clean` & just delete output dirs
- Using System.CommandLine (`--version` & `--help` options)
Install: dotnet tool install -g dotnet-purge
github.com/DamianEdward...
March 9, 2025 at 5:20 AM
New updates!
- Deletes more output dirs now (pack, publish)
- `--recurse` option for recursive purging
- `--no-clean` to skip `dotnet clean` & just delete output dirs
- Using System.CommandLine (`--version` & `--help` options)
Install: dotnet tool install -g dotnet-purge
github.com/DamianEdward...
- Deletes more output dirs now (pack, publish)
- `--recurse` option for recursive purging
- `--no-clean` to skip `dotnet clean` & just delete output dirs
- Using System.CommandLine (`--version` & `--help` options)
Install: dotnet tool install -g dotnet-purge
github.com/DamianEdward...
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Katie Leonard (one of our eng managers) recently wrote a 🔥killer🔥 piece on the current obsession with cutting middle management in the name of "efficiency".
"Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...
"Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...
Cutting Middle Management Is Costing Your Capacity for Change
Over the last year, the tech industry has seen a wave of layoffs targeting middle management. Executives at companies like Meta, Shopify, and Amazon have framed this as a push toward efficiency.
www.linkedin.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Katie Leonard (one of our eng managers) recently wrote a 🔥killer🔥 piece on the current obsession with cutting middle management in the name of "efficiency".
"Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...
"Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...
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New Lesson on creating Desktop applications using Go. You can check it out for free here: www.bytesizego.com/lessons/buil...
Building Desktop apps using Go - ByteSizeGo
www.bytesizego.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
New Lesson on creating Desktop applications using Go. You can check it out for free here: www.bytesizego.com/lessons/buil...
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exciting news: almost 300 of the comics at wizardzines.com/comics/ now have transcripts! (more than 60%!) Also you can use the search to search the transcripts
March 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
exciting news: almost 300 of the comics at wizardzines.com/comics/ now have transcripts! (more than 60%!) Also you can use the search to search the transcripts
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Thanks very much I appreciate the word of support, but do note that I have no professional obligation to share material on Twitter. I was on Twitter for almost 20 years sharing information for free. My account remains and I may return when the Nazis leave
March 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Thanks very much I appreciate the word of support, but do note that I have no professional obligation to share material on Twitter. I was on Twitter for almost 20 years sharing information for free. My account remains and I may return when the Nazis leave