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The one git command I make every junior on my team learn first

May 11 · 5 min read · A junior on my team almost cried on Slack last month. She'd spent the better part of a day rebasing a long-lived feature branch. Twenty-something commits, a bunch of conflict resolutions she'd actuall

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The four things I check before I touch the code

May 7 · 4 min read · Junior me, when given a bug ticket: open the file mentioned in the stack trace, start reading. Older me, given the same ticket: spend 15 minutes not opening the file at all. The four things I check fi

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The bash alias I keep installing on every laptop I touch

May 4 · 4 min read · A junior on my team pinged me last Tuesday because a deploy script was eating his shell. He'd been running it without set -e, the script silently failed at step 3, and he kept retrying steps 4 through

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I stopped reading LLM benchmark posts. Here's what I look at instead.

May 1 · 3 min read · Half my feed this month is "Model X beat Model Y on benchmark Z." I used to read these. I don't anymore. After about three years of paying close attention to LLMs in my actual day job, I think benchma

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The four things I check before I touch the code

The bash alias I keep installing on every laptop I touch

I stopped reading LLM benchmark posts. Here's what I look at instead.

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The one git command I make every junior on my team learn first

The four things I check before I touch the code

The bash alias I keep installing on every laptop I touch

I stopped reading LLM benchmark posts. Here's what I look at instead.