“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom”, I mutter before completely destroying my dev environment to reproduce an error

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement. Psychological safety REQUIRES: * disagreement and debate * setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them * telling people things they don't want to hear * courage, from the bottom up * humility, from the top down

Matheus Lima@terriblesoftware.org · last yr.

Controversial take: teams that never argue are often the most dysfunctional ones. Here's why your team should be fighting more. terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/12/w...

Somehow I've made it a number of years as a dotnet engineer without ever really looking into database/query performance in MSSQL. I'm thinking today is the day to remedy that. If anyone has resources that'd be helpful, please share!

Has anybody found success nudging a remote-but-synchronous culture towards an asynchronous-first culture? Any tips?

I've seen lots of people talk about git and GitHub as a syncing method for Obsidian notes. What more people should talk about is Obsidian notes as a method for getting more of those sweet contribution squares on your graph

After a couple years not engaging much with social media, Bluesky and the AT protocol have me excited in a way that mastodon never quite managed. I’m a little bummed I wasn’t watching since launch, but I’m looking forward to see how the platform and protocol evolve