Jason O'Neil
@jasononeil.au
Working in Developer Experience at Culture Amp. Host the Perth Web Devs meetup. Dad in a neurodiverse family. Living on Wadjuk Noongar country
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this is a really valuable read
"If you're a developer focused on a single technology, you're about to discover you were never really a developer - you were a highly paid translator between requirements docs and React components"
davegriffith.substack.com/p/software-d...
"If you're a developer focused on a single technology, you're about to discover you were never really a developer - you were a highly paid translator between requirements docs and React components"
davegriffith.substack.com/p/software-d...
Software Development in the Time of Strange New Angels
Five months ago, my lifelong profession of software development changed completely.
davegriffith.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
this is a really valuable read
"If you're a developer focused on a single technology, you're about to discover you were never really a developer - you were a highly paid translator between requirements docs and React components"
davegriffith.substack.com/p/software-d...
"If you're a developer focused on a single technology, you're about to discover you were never really a developer - you were a highly paid translator between requirements docs and React components"
davegriffith.substack.com/p/software-d...
I’ve booked another Perth Web Devs meetup - casual drinks at Market Grounds in the city on Tuesday Oct 14. Come hang out 😊
perthwebdevs.com/meetups/pert...
perthwebdevs.com/meetups/pert...
October 3, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I’ve booked another Perth Web Devs meetup - casual drinks at Market Grounds in the city on Tuesday Oct 14. Come hang out 😊
perthwebdevs.com/meetups/pert...
perthwebdevs.com/meetups/pert...
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In theory, everyone has access to what is close enough to production-grade cameras
But to make a pro movie/video, you also need things like lighting, setup, characters, story... the stuff that professionals learn how to do over years! All that differentiates production-grade
But to make a pro movie/video, you also need things like lighting, setup, characters, story... the stuff that professionals learn how to do over years! All that differentiates production-grade
October 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
In theory, everyone has access to what is close enough to production-grade cameras
But to make a pro movie/video, you also need things like lighting, setup, characters, story... the stuff that professionals learn how to do over years! All that differentiates production-grade
But to make a pro movie/video, you also need things like lighting, setup, characters, story... the stuff that professionals learn how to do over years! All that differentiates production-grade
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So far, AI is so much more a cultural phenomenon than a technological or economic one.
September 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
So far, AI is so much more a cultural phenomenon than a technological or economic one.
I helped with the registry for a niche programming language back in the day and now I’m glad it never took off 😅
Firmly no. Few people appreciate how completely gigantic npm is. By 2014 it was already so expensive that it was out of the realm that donations could have supported, and then it grew literally 10,000x bigger.
September 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I helped with the registry for a niche programming language back in the day and now I’m glad it never took off 😅
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Kicking off @dddperth.bsky.social for 2025, wearing a dress printed in code snippets that she has based her talk off 🤯
#DDDPerth
#DDDPerth
September 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Kicking off @dddperth.bsky.social for 2025, wearing a dress printed in code snippets that she has based her talk off 🤯
#DDDPerth
#DDDPerth
I found this post from @charity.wtf honest and refreshing and maybe even inspiring. First time I’ve thought about startup founding in a positive light since the last time I tried/failed 😅
charity.wtf/2025/07/09/t...
charity.wtf/2025/07/09/t...
Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career
I’ve never published an essay quite like this. I’ve written about my life before, reams of stuff actually, because that’s how I process what I think, but never for public consumption. I’ve been pus…
charity.wtf
September 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I found this post from @charity.wtf honest and refreshing and maybe even inspiring. First time I’ve thought about startup founding in a positive light since the last time I tried/failed 😅
charity.wtf/2025/07/09/t...
charity.wtf/2025/07/09/t...
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A defining characteristic of fascism, that you can find in any textbook on the subject, is picking a powerless minority to scapegoat to unify its base while distracting from the crimes of the government and its allies.
This comes to mind for no particular reason.
This comes to mind for no particular reason.
September 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A defining characteristic of fascism, that you can find in any textbook on the subject, is picking a powerless minority to scapegoat to unify its base while distracting from the crimes of the government and its allies.
This comes to mind for no particular reason.
This comes to mind for no particular reason.
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And no obviously this weirdo little website isn't the objective arbiter of truth, just an interesting, well, proof that I'm right. Heh.
Also: The space around Janelle Monae makes a little heart, aww. Kind of on brand for them these days.
Also: The space around Janelle Monae makes a little heart, aww. Kind of on brand for them these days.
September 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
And no obviously this weirdo little website isn't the objective arbiter of truth, just an interesting, well, proof that I'm right. Heh.
Also: The space around Janelle Monae makes a little heart, aww. Kind of on brand for them these days.
Also: The space around Janelle Monae makes a little heart, aww. Kind of on brand for them these days.
Yeah given where these packages are mostly used if they stole developer credentials rather than tried to change crypto transactions when running in a browser this would have been so much worse. xeiaso.net/notes/2025/w...
We all dodged a bullet
That NPM attack could have been so much worse.
xeiaso.net
September 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Yeah given where these packages are mostly used if they stole developer credentials rather than tried to change crypto transactions when running in a browser this would have been so much worse. xeiaso.net/notes/2025/w...
I like this take. I’m not an expert but it feels like the pace of model improvement has slowed. But the applications of the technology (AI coding agents being the one I spend the most time with) still have plenty of room for improved performance even if we never see a smarter model
LLMs are clearly useful. We can see that from the slowdown in junior hiring by AI adopting companies and the datacenter scramble by Google & Microsoft from demand.
But the hype assumes 10x more demand and Skynet-level evolution. What if LLMs are more like SQL, transformative but not infinitely so?
But the hype assumes 10x more demand and Skynet-level evolution. What if LLMs are more like SQL, transformative but not infinitely so?
What if artificial intelligence is just a “normal” technology?
Its rise might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions
www.economist.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I like this take. I’m not an expert but it feels like the pace of model improvement has slowed. But the applications of the technology (AI coding agents being the one I spend the most time with) still have plenty of room for improved performance even if we never see a smarter model
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This is a good post on how to get better at using AI. It's the product of pretty intensive research on what consistently works although I don't surface that research directly in it.
Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...
Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...
Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?
Many "errors" in search-assisted LLMs are not errors at all, but the result of an investigation aborted too soon. Here's how to up your LLM-based verification game by going to round two.
mikecaulfield.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This is a good post on how to get better at using AI. It's the product of pretty intensive research on what consistently works although I don't surface that research directly in it.
Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...
Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...
Excited to be preparing this talk for Web Directions' Engineering AI conference in Sydney next month.
I'll be delving into Developer Experience and Codebase Health and how AI tools is part of the picture now
I'll be delving into Developer Experience and Codebase Health and how AI tools is part of the picture now
AI might be coming for our jobs but let's have fun giving it the boring jobs first - Smart delegation strategies.
Jason O'Neil at Eng AI 25 bit.ly/44YOltc
Jason O'Neil at Eng AI 25 bit.ly/44YOltc
August 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Excited to be preparing this talk for Web Directions' Engineering AI conference in Sydney next month.
I'll be delving into Developer Experience and Codebase Health and how AI tools is part of the picture now
I'll be delving into Developer Experience and Codebase Health and how AI tools is part of the picture now