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A theory floating around for a long time -- but is it real though?
I quit algorithm-fed feeds for good, first Instagram, then YouTube, and rebuilt my media diet around RSS. Centralizing every read, podcast and video into one dashboard and choosing my own subscriptions gave me back control over my attention and better overall mood.
After 13 years in tech across four countries, I was forgetting a lot of what I'd done. So I built a tool to fix it — and you can use it too.
Today i did something i have not done in far too long: I spent my lunch time debugging a memory leak on a obsidian plugin i love. And then figured out a fix for it, will contribute to the repo so others can benefit. It’s something i’ve been wanting to do more of! Since becoming a full-time manager, i do miss coding quite a lot, lately it’s become my hobby out-of-hours :D Missed the feeling of accomplishment related to tangible code.
Got myself a TRMNL as well as a Flipper Zero this month, getting back to coding in my free time. Gosh do I miss the feeling! Prepping to share some open sourced code soon 😊
The AI boom has been tough on juniors and the market for junior roles, however I am also starting to note its effects on more senior engineers as well. It’s a different set of challenges, but a far more insidious and immediate one. Things like review fatigue, increased capacity allocation towards detail-oriented work vs creative development and increasing incident rates related to human error. Currently researching more on this, and on potential AI usage contracts being a next logical step for teams that wish to maintain a healthy balance of innovation, staff happiness and product quality.