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While I'm still waiting for the right moment in my own life to do my own Recurse Center retreat, I have had the pleasure of hiring and working with several RC alums over the years …

I recently tried to sign up for the Microsoft Partner Network and the entire experience was grueling and excruciating from start to finish. I wasted two days on it and never manage…

Before Claude Code, out of the alternatives you mentioned, I'd only tried Windsurf. I find Claude Code to be roughly comparable to Windsurf in terms of capabilities, but I can use …

Doing row-by-row inserts into DuckDB is really slow. Accumulating rows in an in-memory data structure and periodically batching them into something like an in-memory Arrow table, a…

I competed against IBM for many contracts over many years as an engineer at a small startup. The experience left me with zero respect for IBM. On occasions when a customer did choo…

I think a big part of an engineering manager’s job is protecting their team’s focus, and advocating for their team to the rest of the organization. Programmers should be insulated …

That the Russian government is characterizing these personnel as “peacekeepers” would be a fair statement, but to regurgitate that characterization in reporting on the matter seems…