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Aug 9

Three things I disagree with the DevEx Paper

Great paper, but I don’t entirely agree with everything… — Introduction The industry is catching up to the wisdom that developer experience (DevEx) is paramount to increase productivity for companies that produce software. So then the paper “DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity?” …

Devex

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Three things I disagree with the DevEx Paper
Three things I disagree with the DevEx Paper
Devex

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Apr 10

Skynet is Already Here

But not in the way you think… — AI is very far away from being sentient or human-like Sentient AI is not coming soon, not this decade, not next, and I am willing to wager your grandchildren won’t see it either. …

ChatGPT

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Skynet is Already Here
Skynet is Already Here
ChatGPT

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Apr 9

Is prompt engineer the new developer role?

The art of asking the right questions — Prompt engineering is the art of asking very effective questions to an AI to get the best possible response. They are popping up worldwide, some paying over $300K already. What does this mean? AI is automation on steroids. The way that most people will use ChatGPT is as a dynamic template generator. To create…

ChatGPT

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Is prompt engineer the new developer role?
Is prompt engineer the new developer role?
ChatGPT

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Mar 12

It doesn’t pay to hate recruiters

Engineers often hate recruiters, but they shouldn’t. — Why recruiters are bad I don’t dislike recruiters, and I may be in the minority because most engineers I talk to do. I completely understand why. Many recruiters will… Be charming as long as they can “sell you” and instantly ghost you when you are useless to them. Send you offers for jobs that…

Recruitment

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It doesn’t pay to hate recruiters
It doesn’t pay to hate recruiters
Recruitment

4 min read


Jan 2

UX on Platform Engineering

Design an Internal Developer Platform that your users love using — Why Focus on User Experience? When reading about platform engineering you may see the term DevEx (Developer Experience) thrown about, and see new roles that focus on this area too. This is all very nice, but if we deliver platforms that are poorly designed, the developer experience will always suck. In a previous article I…

UX

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UX on Platform Engineering
UX on Platform Engineering
UX

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Dec 23, 2022

Please Kill RTFM!

When “Read the F$!%ing Manual” Veils Bad Design… — I’ve seen it time and again in my field of work when someone asks a question that’s considered trivial, devs say it, sysadmins say it, DevOps say it: “Just RTFM man!” RTFM (Read The Fucking Manual) epitomizes the nerd who hates people. It stinks because it is condescending. …

Platform Engineering

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Please Kill RTFM!
Please Kill RTFM!
Platform Engineering

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Dec 14, 2022

DevOps Engineer: Perpetually in Diapers

Yes, we really don’t know what we are doing (mostly) — Learn Everything Now! Around a year ago I read a hilarious post in the DevOps subreddit: The funniest part of the post is how true it is, nearly 500 upvotes and multiple responses confirmed it— we really don’t know what we are doing! The impostor syndrome is not just a feeling in DevOps…

DevOps

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DevOps Engineer: Perpetually in Diapers
DevOps Engineer: Perpetually in Diapers
DevOps

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·Sep 28, 2022

Platform Engineering: Creating your Internal Developer Platform (Part 2)

In the first part of this article I gave an introduction to platform engineering and explained what an internal developer platform is. In this article I will explain how you can create your own using a variety of open source and commercial tools. Open Source tools There is no single open source tool…

Platform Engineering

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Platform Engineering: Creating your Internal Developer Platform (Part 2)
Platform Engineering: Creating your Internal Developer Platform (Part 2)
Platform Engineering

14 min read


Aug 13, 2021

BeyondCorp vs BeyondProd

A ticket out of GCP’s BeyondCorp Confusion Purgatory — Introduction I wrote this post because I find the BeyondCorp documentation by Google quite confusing, and occasionally a little misleading. Here is one good example from a presentation given by Google: First of all, the graph is misleading because ACM does not really enforce any requests, that’s just where you define…

Gcp

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BeyondCorp vs BeyondProd
BeyondCorp vs BeyondProd
Gcp

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May 24, 2021

How I read 47 books in 6 weeks

And the lessons they taught me about life. — Towards the end of February I started thinking a lot about my future and where I want to be in the next ten years and the truth is that I really have no idea, the only thing I know, is that I want to be much better off than I…

Books

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How I read 47 books in 6 weeks
How I read 47 books in 6 weeks
Books

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