Software Engineering You need to try the GitHub Copilot CLI right now This was an interesting demo of the Copilot CLI, given I typically use VS Code. It seems like everything done in this demo via the CLI can be…
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Deep Rock Galactic Glyphid Oppressor
A friend of mine has the Deep Rock Galactic board game that comes with multiple figures that can be painted. The Glyphid Oppressor is one of the larger figures in the board game, so it presented me with some challenges….
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 8
AI An AI CEO finally said something honest This Reddit post was a treasure trove of comments that resonated strongly with my current opinions about how AI is applied in software engineering. The gist of anoma.ly’s CEO’s comment is that…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 7
AI AI Doesn’t Reduce Work — It Intensifies It Developers Are Forced to Use AI Skills Developers NEED In 2026 (Because Vibe Coding Changes Everything)
Professional Development – 2026 – Weeks 5 & 6
AI How Gen Z Uses Gen AI and Why It Worries Them The authors surveyed ~2500 US adults ages 18-28 to learn about how they use AI. Most of them are using it as a productivity tool than for social…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 4
Software engineering The Best Programmers Use Tests for Engineering Like This Emily proposed some changes to Kent Beck’s test desiderata (2019), which is a list of desirable properties of tests. She mentioned approval tests. Two fundamental macro properties that are…
Professional Development – 2026 – Weeks 2 & 3
AI Introducing Agent Skills in VS Code Agent skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that load on demand. This is an open standard (i.e., it works in GitHub Cloud Agent, GitHub CLI, and other LLMs such as Claud…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 1
AI Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond Personal review: 2 out of 5 stars. This book has several useful techniques infuriatingly mixed with trifle and eye-rolling inducing comments backed up with no statistics. If you…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 52
AI AI Is Changing How We Learn at Work Leadership in AI Assisted Engineering – Justin Reock, DX Information Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI This was a thought provoking book about how…
Professional Development – 2025 – Week 51
AI AI Tools Make Coders More Important, Not Less Software Engineering These 5 Ideas Power the Best Software Teams These ideas come from The Unicorn Project (2019) that followed the more popular book The Phoenix Project (2013). Although Dave is…