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Elin @hejelin.com · 31/03/2026

I really like @hankgreen.bsky.social's recent take that what AI can be is either utility or slop, and that, for better or worse, software has always been primarily utility for the end user. Here's to hoping we don't let our tech, design and products become slop either 🤞 youtu.be/dT5IJExTUR4

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What is "Slop" (and why it gives me hope)

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This video is so good!! You will learn so much and also you should hype it (if you know what that means) youtu.be/MSYQf-iRiz4?...

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i am begging science journalists to read

YouTube video by Sage the Bad Naturalist

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Elin @hejelin.com · 25/03/2026

I've started replacing scrolling with solitaire card games during breaks, and this is the closest I've come to beating Klondike so far 🥳/🫠

The results from a game of the card solitaire Klondike. It's four aces in a row, except that the Ace of Spades (🎶 the ace of spades 🎶) has the Nine of Spades on top of it - meaning it's as close to a successful game of Klondike you can come to without actually winning it.

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Elin @hejelin.com · 06/02/2026

📣 Survey time - tell us about your experience with AI for software engineering, me and @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com want to know! The survey takes about 11 mins to fill out 🙏 results will be published in about a month, full access for those who help out! www.surveymonkey.com/r/tpe-ai-sur...

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AI tooling for software engineering

How are software engineers using AI tools today? How has AI changed your work routines and the way you approach software development? Your responses will help paint an accurate picture of where we are...

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Elin @hejelin.com · 23/01/2026

Society is so cool, humans are so cool, the fact that there's so many tasks and jobs and roles and places in society where people can work and make an impact and difference in the world is awesome. I wanna remember that more often 🌍

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Elin @hejelin.com · 23/01/2026

I was talking with one of the people who runs the coworking space, and she asked what I work with and I said I work "in tech", and she asked what I meant because that could be ANYTHING - civil engineering, biotech, energy technologies, etc. There's so much world outside of the IT software bubble!!!

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Elin @hejelin.com · 23/01/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8U7... I've recently moved up north in my country to a smaller city, and the coworking space I go to has people who work outside of tech, and it's honestly *so nice* to just hear about things that aren't tech and software!

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Two Unrelated Destroyers of Trust

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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Elin @hejelin.com · 29/10/2025

Fancy duck season has come to Stockholm! 🦆🎩

Two male and one female mandarin duck, e.g. fancy orange ducks 🦆 one is swimming and two are sitting on a tree branch that goes into the water

One male (orange) and one female (brown and spotty) mandarin ducks swimming by the edge of the water

Three (orange) males and two (brown and spotty) female mandarin ducks swimming in the water

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Elin @hejelin.com · 29/10/2025

I managed to watch it today and HANK YOU WERE SO GOOD! 👏🥳😍 I was so proud of you and SO FUCKING STOKED you got to do it! It was an absolutely delightful episode 🥹

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Elin @hejelin.com · 17/09/2025

@den.dev would love to chat! Where can I DM you?

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Elin @hejelin.com · 11/09/2025

Oh that's why 🫠

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Elin @hejelin.com · 10/09/2025

- What servers do you use, and why do you like them? - Have you built MCP servers? What do they do and who are they for? - Any cool stories of what MCP has allowed you to do? - What's the best things you’ve seen implemented with MCP so far? - Do you have any considerations or precautions for others?

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Elin @hejelin.com · 10/09/2025

Do you have examples or experiences working with MCP servers and solutions? 🧑‍💻 We at @pragmaticengineer.com want to hear from you! We’re looking into MCP and would love to hear how you/your team or company work with MCP! DM me - or fill out forms.gle/4hWZRh4ZKBvn... - or both!

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MCP servers and setups

Hi 👋 this is Gergely and Elin at The Pragmatic Engineer. We're researching MCP servers and solutions, and would love to hear about how you've been using or working with MCP, either you/your team or y...

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Elin @hejelin.com · 16/07/2025

A very mean-looking beetle joined me for dinner yesterday - its rage was palpable

A dark gray beetle, about 20-25mm long, sitting on the armrest of a wooden chair. It has the meanest-looking eyes you can imagine - black as tar. It's staring into your soul, and judges the very core of your being. It's giving "I will haunt your dreams, shit on everything you hold dear, and if I had the required body mass, I would beat you until an inch of your life".

A dark gray beetle, about 20-25mm long, sitting on a glass table. It has the meanest-looking eyes you can imagine - black as tar. It's staring into your soul, and judges the very core of your being. It's giving "you have disgraced the air around you, your existence is offensive to me, and I hereby curse you and everything you hold dear for ten generations".

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Elin @hejelin.com · 12/07/2025

awww look at you @bsky.app, making it onto the NYT mini crossword 👏🦋 (I don't know how to flag the screenshot as a #spoiler I'm sorry 😭)

New York times mini crossword from July 12 2025, with the clue "Left-leaning social media site" and BLUESKY as the answer. The rest of the mini is covered up to avoid spoiling the mini for anyone playing

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Elin @hejelin.com · 12/07/2025

And @hankgreen.bsky.social followed up with *the single best metaphor* about the internet: it's like food. So obviously, managing the role that the internet has in life is just as (or more) complex than maintaining a balanced relationship with food, and it all makes sense. youtu.be/9euKCrTyMEc?...

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You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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Elin @hejelin.com · 12/07/2025

Hank and John created two absolute bangers recently which has helped me understand my relationship with content and the internet, starting with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social 's video about how we're addicted to things *for a reason*, because they _feel good_: youtu.be/0veampRSw7w?...

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Am I Cigarettes?

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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Elin @hejelin.com · 12/07/2025

youtu.be/if-IgLJQbPI?... talks about rage bait and controversy as basically the most effective marketing strategy that exists, and it's true and I hate it so much

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The Worst Trend on the Internet Right Now

YouTube video by State of Kait

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

These are the folks most likely to save PEPFAR. Please call them TODAY and tell them to vote NO on codifying cuts to PEPFAR and other critical, life-saving aid. act.pih.org/global-healt...

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Don't cut funding

Tell Congress to reverse the Trump Administration's decision to freeze all U.S. foreign aid spending on global health programs, including the delivery of lifesaving medicines to vulnerable patients.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 06/06/2025

I'll be at LDX3 (formerly: LeadDev) in a week, together with the full @pragmaticengineer.com team (with @hejelin.com‬ and Dominic, our editor), in London - vey much looking forward to it! If you'll be there, there will be plenty of opportunities to say hi to us: leaddev.com/leaddev-lond...

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Elin @hejelin.com · 30/05/2025

Hey you! You should watch this: youtu.be/NSuSyZ92Cjg?... (It's a 4-ish min funny but somehow also profound speech which is not nearly as serious as the thumbnail and title suggests)

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Fredrik Backman on Creative Anxiety and Procrastination

YouTube video by Simon & Schuster Books

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Elin @hejelin.com · 12/04/2025

@hankgreen.bsky.social i need you to do connections today! Ktnxbai

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Elin @hejelin.com · 28/03/2025

It takes on average 14 mins to answer the survey, but if you're feeling very speedy you can get through it in about 5 mins 😁 The full report will be published in May, but folks who help us fill out the survey will get early access, plus additional analysis from us! Thank you for helping out! 🥳🙏

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Elin @hejelin.com · 28/03/2025

📣 What's in your tech stack? Me and @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com want to know! We're doing our biggest @pragmaticengineer.com survey yet, to get a realistic snapshot of what the industry is using, loving and disliking, and we need your help! 🙏 www.surveymonkey.com/r/whatisyour...

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What is in your tech stack?

Hi 👋 this is Gergely and Elin at The Pragmatic Engineer. We want to know what tools, languages, frameworks and platforms you're using today! We want to get a realistic snapshot of what the industry is...

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Elin @hejelin.com · 07/03/2025

writing and creating and building things and expressing myself, but it hard to do that when the platforms for expressing yourself are just *massive* hurdles to overcome. It makes me sad to think that so much creativity in one place can harm so much creativity elsewhere... :'(

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Elin @hejelin.com · 07/03/2025

the creativity of the users of those platforms, but also themselves, because obviously there are loads of us who are on both sides in this! I love enabling creativity in folks working in the tech industry, because software engineering can be such a creative and expressive craft, but I also like..

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Elin @hejelin.com · 07/03/2025

to unlock and enable creativity and sharing creative work with others. But then, as Cam says, the platforms, and *especially* recommendation algorithms, are seemingly harming creativity more than anything. So the creativity the tech industry uses to develop and monetise the platforms are hurting..

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Elin @hejelin.com · 07/03/2025

Being a creative in the tech industry is such a curious place to be - because on the one hand, I know these platforms exist because of the creative process that is software engineering, and developed by creative PMs, devs, designers, people, and at one point, these platforms were supposed to exist..

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Elin @hejelin.com · 07/03/2025

This video contains a lot of what I've needed to hear recently, about creativity and the value of sharing the things you create with other people. Because chances are, on the other end, there's someone who needs it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sZZ...

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How the algorithm killed your creativity

YouTube video by struthless

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Elin @hejelin.com · 04/03/2025

At least spring is springing

Snowdrops blooming amongst the grass of last year

Winter aconites blooming amongst the dried-up leaves from last year

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Elin @hejelin.com · 19/02/2025

Today's fancy duck walk was sunny ☀️

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Elin @hejelin.com · 18/02/2025

Also @hankgreen.bsky.social this is one of the reasons I've never forgotten to take off my lanyard and put it next to the stage anytime I speak at a conference, so thank you for making your interesting lanyard decision so other people won't have to 😁

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Elin @hejelin.com · 18/02/2025

I constantly revisit this Hank Green talk, dismantling the concept of dreams, and why you have no obligation to a desire you once had, or to your former self - because that person is not only dumber than you, they also *don't exist* www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPto... @hankgreen.bsky.social

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Hank Green, Vlogbrothers/VidCon - XOXO Festival (2014)

YouTube video by XOXO Festival

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Elin @hejelin.com · 18/02/2025

Also, "10x engineers" tend to need quite a lot of "normal engineers" around them anyways - if they're force multipliers they need something to multiply, and if they're lone-wolf machines, you need folks to do all the stuff they don't do. A 10x team is not made of 10x engineers (rather the opposite)

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Elin @hejelin.com · 07/02/2025

Dear Katherine and Sarah!

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21/01/2025

Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040

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Elin @hejelin.com · 21/01/2025

I finished my #sensitsweater on new years eve, and have been pretty much living in it since 🥰🧶 I miss having a big project tho, might need to make another one... 😬 #crochet