Alex Zurek

Very accurate, but what isn’t shown is all of the engineers that recommended the “disruption” option early on and were told it wouldn’t be sufficient for the business.

What is even the point of a software engineer anymore?

Now more than ever before, it's easier to solve problems and reach your destination, but I think the journey still matters. Hopefully you do as well. zureka.dev/blog/the-jou...

Be respectful to your fellow human beings, don't make them think too much. zureka.dev/blog/do-not-...

Had a lot of fun playing Echos of Mystralia yesterday. Definitely worth checking out if you’re into action roguelites: store.steampowered.com/app/974480/E...

Have you ever joined a project where the docs were horribly outdated or the code didn't follow consistent patterns? It's now more important than ever to keep docs up-to-date and establish conventions to help your new "coworkers" onboard more quickly. zureka.dev/blog/onboard...

If you build a website to blog more, you need to actually write for the blog. The first post is available now! zureka.dev/blog/reason-...

"The AI engineering impact data shows that output is up. It also shows that the work required to ensure that output is safe, correct, and maintainable has not decreased. It has increased substantially." Aye, if only any of us had been saying this from day one 🤡 www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce...

I expect tech companies to be hit by a triple whammy in the coming months 1. Rising AI token costs. 2. The realization churning out more code doesn’t necessarily translate to business or customer value and is in fact worse in some cases. 3. Fewer employees to clean up the mess post-layoffs.

Listening to the rain outside as I repaint the kitchen cabinets with my best friend (a.k.a. my wife) is a special kind of therapy.

Mom, I’m famous! @jcsalterego.bsky.social liked one of my Bluesky posts!!

Job openings in 2026: "Hiring an expert in technology XYZ for a solution that will improve the lives of millions. PhD required. $40K/year" "Hiring for a niche futuristic project with potential to make a few people really rich and f everyone else and the environment. No ethics required. $400k/year"

You know what I’m talking about. bell.bz/wait-it-out/

Thank you, Grammarly, for releasing your newest shitty AI feature that steals the likeness of real people without their consent. I needed a good reminder to cancel my subscription before it renewed.

I wrote about some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, preceded by an appreciation for folk music.

I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools.

A hackathon for vibecoders

Most days, it doesn’t really feel like this country is gonna make it. Today it doesn’t feel like it deserves to.

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

I really like this point and have seen evidence of it: when humans get confused or overwhelmed by complexity, it’s a signal to search for alternate solutions. AI just plows on, often in the wrong direction, without feeling this pushback. It doesn’t feel the pain obie.medium.com/ruby-was-rea...

This is a brilliant way for the students to realize this on their own rather than someone telling them.

Rad dithering breakdown / interactive learning experience visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...

AI/LLMs are by design anti-labor technology. the aggressive pushing of LLM adoption by all levels of management is exemplary of this: you are not asked to use this tech because it will enable better work and ideas, but because it is cheaper to your boss than your coworker's salary

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

As someone who got into software engineering because I enjoyed writing code, I have also experienced a form of identity crisis with the expectation that I should utilize more AI, thereby reducing the amount of code I need to write myself. weakty.com/posts/efforts/

This is an excellent collection of essays, some of which I've read before. I highly recommend reading through some of them and integrating these concepts into your development process. refactoringenglish.com/blog/softwar...

Made “autumn naan pizzas” tonight (with a few substitutions) following this recipe. It was delicious and will definitely have to make it again at some point. dishingouthealth.com/autumn-naan-...

i don’t think we’re ready for hacktoberfest and ‘vibe coding’ sending strength to open source maintainers

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Took advantage of the long weekend to complete a project we’ve wanted to tackle for awhile now. We finally added drawers to our kitchen pantry! So much easier to find things now.

The only thing that will make me scream LETS GO BRANDON Re: “AI artist”

That awkward moment when you find a shortened variable name for "cumulative weight" in the codebase... and it has been there for years.

The world is going to shit and I still have to do my part to increase shareholder value tomorrow

I got into tech because it’s fun to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together — or rearrange the parts into something brand new. it definitely feels like the new ethos is “bro why bother to learn? caring about that stuff is cringe, just go FAST bro” and that bums me out

Truly extraordinary Google AI results. Amazing.

stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏

We all need to be more like Scott.

I’ve entirely skipped the JS framework wars for the past few years since my current role is about writing third-party scripts that get loaded onto other sites. Makes me wonder how easy it will be to eventually jump back into app dev.

You can’t shrink government to the size where you can drown it in a bathtub and then be surprised when it can’t rescue people from a flood.

I appreciate that the speaker list on the @cascadiajs.com 2025 site is in a random order every time. It removes any perceived artificial ranking of importance so that all of the speakers have a chance to be listed at the top. cascadiajs.com/2025

One feature I wish Bluesky had was improved open graph tags so that image previews would show when I share a post in another app.

Political ads should be illegal.

Well, here is a nice little checklist of how America died…. If only there had been opposition leaders to help us organize and fight against it before it was too late.