Software Engineering Why code by hand when AI is faster? The easy way to learn nothing
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Professional Development – 2026 – Week 43
Leadership Leaders Need to Grapple with Employee Ambivalence on AI Software Engineering GraphQL API Basics and Best Practices This was a brief refresher about how GraphQL solves certain problems you can run into with REST APIs, namely underfeteching overfetching. The…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 42
AI AI Coding Is Hard Until You Start Setting Goals Communication How to Present Your Ideas Effectively This TED talk described three types of revelation (the inspiring act of revealing something). YouTube Has an AI Writing Problem I Can Spot…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 41
AI engineering New Skills v1.3 Brings /pr, /implement-spec, and /retro Culture There’s No Such Thing as an AI-Ready Culture Software engineering Why Good Codebases Go Bad (and How to Stop It) 7 Authentication Concepts Every Developer Should Know This 20-minute…
Tamiya Mazda MX-5 – Step 12
It’s been over three years since my last Mazda post, which covered the seats and interior door panels. (Yes there was a Step 11, which was to glue the interior tub onto the undercarriage; nothing worth writing about.) This step…
Professional Development – 2026 – Weeks 39 & 40
AI The State of AI Software Development: Data from 400+ Orgs An Insider’s Guide to AI Doom Software development Azure Application Insights with .NET Core Web API This brief tutorial shows how to set up Application Insights and connect it…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 38
Leadership When There’s More Work Than Your Team Can Handle Process improvement Stop Automating Old Processes. Design New Ones Instead. AI applied to automate one or more elements can upend the overall system’s effects. The article outlines four ways where…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 37
AI Claude Certified Developer – Foundations Prep Course I’ll be taking this Anthropic certification exam in about a week. They provide a five-part module course that covers a range of topics: CredFarmer This site has mock exams for the Claude…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 36
AI The Truth about OpenAI’s “Secret Civilizations” Cal Newport (a computer science professor) covers some topics from a recent report from OpenAI about the recent Hugging Face attack. A “swarm” is just an efficient way of managing prompts and context…
Professional Development – 2026 – Week 35
Culture How to Build a Team of Devs That Improves Itself