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Finding the simplest solution possible, only increasing complexity if needed.

Prompt processing is cheap, generating tokens is slow and expensive.

An engineer at Gitlab accidentally deleted their production database, and they couldn't recover it because their backup methods failed. They shared the root cause, how they handled the situation, and the lessons learned in a very transparent way.

The refactoring pull request of the Bluesky app, specifically how they plan to store data. They use a single SQLite database per user that stores their repository and private account state.

Beautiful artworks! I'm currently using them as my wallpaper on both my Mac and iPhone.

"...many companies will never grow large enough or achieve enough scale for this complexity to be beneficial".

Right tools for the right job, isn't it?

"Then when the kids all left the nest, I looked in the mirror and asked myself, who am I, really?"

Is the planning we do all the time worth it, or is it just an illusion of control?