Brian P. Hogan

Technical content expert, developer education leader, author, educator, mentor, and software developer. I develop people, content, and code. He/Him.

[Brian P. Hogan @bphogan]

The person on the stage or the person who wrote that book isn’t better than you.

They just took a shot.

Don’t be afraid to take yours and share your knowledge.

And don’t listen to anyone who tells you you’re not good enough.

Especially the voice in your head. It’s a jerk.

[Aryas @Aryvyo]

guy who just downloaded tailscale: i think tailscale might be god

[Jason @peregrine]

these clankers amplify whatever you bring. bring your brain and have a plan.

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

I just discovered an awesome compression algorithm: your 4000 word blog post can be compressed down to the prompt you gave Claude to write it.

[Brian P. Hogan @bphogan]

@bcardarella The thing I think too many people miss is that the terminal has a learning curve but it’s also faster and more responsive over the course of a day. The GUI tools remain sluggish. I need my ram for more than Electron apps.

That’s what needs to change first.

[Brian P. Hogan @bphogan]

@davidfowl @GergelyOrosz Ah. A person I know posted on LinkedIn that their team was merged into that oeg and they were laid off.

[Brian P. Hogan @bphogan]

@corylanou @mholt6 I love that we all collectively decided to forget the “D” in DVCS.

[Jason Lengstorf @jlengstorf]

it’s kinda funny watching people get mad about the text watermarking in LLMs. “word choice matters!”

if you feel so strongly about that, have you considered… choosing the words yourself?

[taylor desseyn @tdesseyn]

hot take: work for people, not companies. ive watched candidates turn down bigger titles and higher salaries because they met the manager and thought, i want to work for this person. theyre almost always happier

[Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec]

Agents writing docs seems pointless to me.

1) Their explanations are overcomplicated and poorly written.
2) Any user or contributor can use _their_ agent to generate the same output just-in-time, and it will be more accurate and more tailored to that person.
3) Agents will not, on their own, try to elicit the "why" behind a change unless the user prompts them to (at which point, why not just write the fockin thing yourself you lazy bum)

Don't commit anything to a repo that an agent can just generate on-demand at any time.

[Brian P. Hogan @bphogan]

I can only speculate.

I know they rewrote a lot of things and introduced a lot more sluggishness in the PR review interface.

And I know they laid off a lot of people a few months ago and rolled the org under the Visual Studio org.

Seems like they got what they wanted from their investment and have moved on.

[Brian P. Hogan @bphogan]

My deepest sympathy for the people responsible for responding to the GitHub incidents and outages lately, but at some point Microsoft needs to show some accountability for turning a platform millions of developers trust with their work into a risky dependency.

[Brian P. Hogan @bphogan]

@GergelyOrosz @stolinski I’ve spent a good chunk of my career as both a tech writer and a developmental editor.

Reviewing work is so much more mental effort than creating it if you are accountable for the quality of the outcome.

[Karthik Hariharan @hkarthik]

Experienced engineering managers have all seen the new engineer that walks in, shits on a vendor tool that the team is using, and promises that they can build a better version of it in a week. Even if they get it built, within months, the internal solution becomes abandon-ware.

With AI dev tools this phenomenon is becoming far more prevalent.

[Taylor Poindexter @engineering_bae]

If you tell your team not to work after hours or on the weekend, you have to make sure you’re following that rule too.

I used to think I could get away with it because I have high trust with my engineers, but that was wrong lol Especially in this economy and with the fact that there are so many bad managers out there.

People are afraid of falling behind or being laid off and many have experienced managers that pretend they’re lax when in reality, they’re keeping score without communicating clearly and honestly to their people.

As a leader, you set the standard and it’s important that you practice what you preach.

[Brian P. Hogan @bphogan]

@nateberkopec Yea I promise that humans aren’t even reviewing the code humans write.

I see so much stuff slip by with LGTM.

[Robby Russell @robbyrussell]

This is a good time to share that link in your Slack/Discord channels one more time and remind your Rails friends that they have a few days to participate. 🤗

[Gary Bernhardt @garybernhardt]

I have complex feelings about Ruby and Rails. But I respect that both of them started from "We are HUMANS, with MINDS that have SPECIFIC SHAPES!" I fear we'll never see programming tools with that level of humanity again. They're organic, but still uncompromisingly software.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

What really drives leaders to resist remote work isn't productivity. It’s ego.

Our new data: Ordering people in full-time is a power & status move. Bosses want to be worshiped at the office altar.

Policies shouldn’t be vanity projects. Hybrid is better for people & performance.

https://t.co/kOywHTFLoG

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

“We’re going to shove AI into every service, and in the process jack component prices so high that nobody can afford devices to use those services with” is quite the cunning plan, industry.