Are you a high school student interested in working in tech? Here's my advice as someone who has worked at everything from FAANG to research labs, and has been in the industry since 2008.

A dad's playbook for running a newsletter when you have very little free time.

In 2011, Larry Page became CEO of Google and tried to fix meetings. But his new policies were no match for Google Calendar pedants.

Canonical is rolling out sudo-rs by default in Ubuntu 25.10, embracing Rust’s safety while shedding some of sudo’s legacy baggage

A judge ruled that Apple violated her previous order. The next day, Spotify shipped an update linking to their external purchase flow, among other things. But how did they do it so quickly?

I talk over a bug from a computer vision prototype from 2009 that required hardware fixes, software fixes, BIOS fixes, Windows Registry fixes, and a tour through distributed queuing.

At the 10-year anniversary of Bazel's announcement, I reflect on my disappointment that Bazel never became a viable build system for small-time development.

Shopify's CEO just announced that AI usage is expected of employees, and they will get peer feedback on AI usage. So why not help them out and brainstorm how they can game it.

Coding is one of the easy parts of being a software engineer. There are a whole host of coding-related activities and specialties that will be important for the foreseeable future.

A staff software engineer's view on current events, tech trends, and the occasional rant. Click to read Client/Server, by Jacob Voytko, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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If you interview people remotely for software engineering positions, then you need a strategy to deal with people cheating by using LLMs. One option is letting them do it and adjust your questions.

A Texas-based software engineer was convicted of several different methods of sabotaging his former employer's computers. How good were they? I'll be the judge.

In two separate incidents in April, Citigroup employees sent incorrect values to customers. The incidents are an interesting study in ergonomics.

I went down a rabbit hole this week exploring why so many people want C++ to break backwards compatibility (which is already something it does with every release)

Following layoffs, Meta cuts stock refreshers by 10% after years of almost top-of-market pay rates.

I had trouble being productive in Cursor until I focused on setting the LLM up for success.

About 20,000 of the most cited researchers have 'implausibly high' publication and new co-author rates

A long-time Linux maintainer calls Rust a "cancer" in the Linux codebase and tries to block crucial abstractions from entering the kernel. Another contributor tries getting him banned in return.

After rocking the world with DeepSeek, China faces potential new import/export restrictions.

By removing unnecessary usages of "we" and being direct and explicit, you can increase the signal-to-noise ratio of your comments.

LinkedIn recently made silent updates to their privacy policy, and it tells the story that they've been violating their Premium contracts

create-react-app hasn't been in the official documentation for over a year, but that doesn't stop a constant flood of new developers from trying to use it.

create-react-app hasn't been in the official documentation for over a year, but that doesn't stop a constant flood of new developers from trying to use it.

The TikTok ban is still in effect. You still can't download or update it in app stores. TikTok called the US' bluff and it's not clear whether it will work.