I published my first book today
📘 Refining Engineering
A niche topic I deeply care about: how software teams prepare work before implementation.
Both terrified and excited.
Link below 👇
https://t.co/IJT8TIWgTD
“Risingson” from Mezzanine by Massive Attack… and I’m back in 2003. Late nights, a glowing screen, lost in PhpNuke/Xoops... when time felt slower and everything was still ahead 🥲
Black Mirror S8E1: In 2027, developers are allocated a daily Claude token allowance by the government. A junior dev burns through his entire month's supply trying to centre a div. His family starve. He is forced to write the code himself. He can't. Society collapses.
Approvals aren’t neutral 🤨
Review order, context, and shared responsibility quietly shape how deeply we look at code and change the weight behind that green button more than we think. ✅
A few thoughts here: Two approvals, no one responsible?
https://t.co/fdlghYNeR8
The Staff Engineer Paradox: I missed coding so much that I started a side project. 20 minutes later, I realized I was just 'Staffing' an AI agent. I didn't write a single line of code. I wrote a Jira ticket disguised as a prompt. https://t.co/Rlttlgkuei #Tech#vibecoding
I’ve been wondering: in a world where AI agents can read, understand and modify code… what’s the right role for tools like @rectorphp built around static rules?
Maybe they’re more complementary than competitive. I don’t have the answer yet 🤔
I had to block OpenAI agents and other LLMs on my sites a few months ago because they were so aggressive in terms of crawling. With this kind of feature, I might be able to reverse that decision 😍https://t.co/AIwOTJCrRj
Carl Sagan on books:
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years."
This is the most mind-blowing book I've read this year.
It's written by an ex-Stanford doctor and ex-food lobbyist who expose the medical, food, and pharmaceutical industry.
12 Shocking lessons from "Good Energy" by @CaseyMeansMD & @calleymeans: