And I love the book um Clayton Christensen wrote Competing Against Luck.
Talk on Lenny's Podcast, 'What it takes to be a top PM today', opening his first chapter, understanding people deeply, with the Jobs to Be Done framework; quote from the video's YouTube automatic captions.
Writer of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter and books on software engineering careers; previously an engineering manager at Uber, Skype and Skyscanner.
I plug my Starlink on the roof with a LAN cable straight into a Unifi router with 3 APs (one on each floor's ceiling) and 2 outdoor APs You can't rely on the Starlink WiFi too much because it's so compact and the WiFi router is INSIDE the dish, so if it's outside and you close the doors the signal isn't great Gotta LAN it up
I plug my Starlink on the roof with a LAN cable straight into a Unifi router with 3 APs (one on each floor's ceiling) and 2 outdoor APs You can't rely on the Starlink WiFi too much because it's so compact and the WiFi router is INSIDE the dish, so if it's outside and you close the doors the signal isn't great Gotta LAN it up
Writer of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter and books on software engineering careers; previously an engineering manager at Uber, Skype and Skyscanner.
Holy shit I was going through my old books and found the book I used to brush up on Typescript from 2019, and all my highlights in it It’s was by some random dev I never heard of back then, but remember it was a v good book This “random dev” is @bcherny 🙃
Let’s start working on “The Good Denis,” by Marie NDiaye (translated from the French by Jordan Stump), which appears in the anthology we’ve been working from, The Penguin Anthology of the International Short Story, assembled by Rabih Alemeddine and John Freeman.
His Story Club newsletter, on the anthology the series draws its weekly stories from
Engineer at Vercel Labs as of 2026. Ships a steady stream of small developer tools — agent-browser, portless, json-render, native-sdk, the v0 SDK — and lists every one of them at ctate.dev.
We've been using issue-graph to answer: what should we work on next? It prioritizes work using signals like engagement and time open, surfaces patterns across the backlog and gives software factories a better way to coordinate agent work
I loaned my Starlink Mini to @mick__net after his 🇵🇹 Portuguese ISP @NOS was (and still is!) down for 2+ months, while he lives 500 meters away from the NOS headquarters in Lisbon 😂 Nobody can fix it, customer support is useless and even cancelling his plan is difficult Anyway Starlink Mini got him his internet back immediately and saved his ass cause he had to work, and now he ordered his own and gave mine back, which I then used for traveling in Greece, and he's a Starlink convert
I've never had so LITTLE issues with internet as since I had Starlink, it's never been down, it always just works and customer support is via chat and works really well
ShellPerfBench. I'm really neurotic about the startup time of a new shell session. Opus 5.5 found a lot of really great optimizations other models missed. Anon, anytime you open a new terminal, you might be silently suffering. Tell your agent to optimize .𝚣𝚜𝚑𝚛𝚌 and friends
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