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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 08/10/2026

It may sound soft or cheesy to some companies in the Valley. But there is a real advantage in a company with strong positive values.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 04/10/2026

The Buffer Zap. A minimalistic app that lives in your Mac Menu Bar and allows you to select your channels, and either Share now via Buffer. Or add to your content queue.

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 03/10/2026

High performing teams set and then execute on their promise.

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 30/09/2026

Appreciate it, Alessia!

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Substack @substack.com · 23/09/2026

📢 New: Substack Notes is now integrated with @buffer.com Substack Notes helps thousands of publishers, creators, and podcasters grow their audiences faster. Now, Buffer users can plan and publish to Notes from the same place they post to their other social platforms. Learn more: buffer.com/substack

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Substack Notes Scheduler: Plan and Share Your Notes | Buffer

Schedule Substack Notes and share the same Note to LinkedIn, X, Threads, and Bluesky. Plan every channel on one calendar and see which Notes earn you subscribers. Free to start.

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 27/09/2026

My colleague Steph wrote an article full of wisdom about rest. It’s short and will make you re-think rest. Go read it. stephmifsud.substack.com/p/reflection...

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 26/09/2026

How heroes are often made.

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 24/09/2026

Same. I alternate. But find that typing slows me down just enough to think better.

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Buffer @buffer.com · 23/09/2026

As of today, you can plan and queue your Substack Notes alongside your Bluesky and other channels in Buffer! 🎉 🧵 One calendar and one publishing rhythm, plus no context switching:

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 23/09/2026

Such a timeless classic!

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 20/09/2026

This resonates with me. But it also indicates that you should be the one blogging about whatever is top of mind. ❤️

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 20/09/2026

It seems fitting that 40 years after it premiered I went to watch My Neighbor Tottoro for the first time. The thing that struck me the most was how different parenting and child life were then and now. With a father that would go off to work leaving the kids to play in the village and forest.

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 18/09/2026

Hooray, Anthropic finally gave up!

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 19/09/2026

Wizards of the Coast actually is a big corp, but the way the game was created and released into the world, open source style, made it special and something that was alive in the 1970s and is still alive today. Here’s a video from the folks of @answerinprogress. Enjoy! youtu.be/6tE3cqhUAjg?...

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 19/09/2026

why is that? I’ve never been much into table top games at all. But the mix of rules and complete imagination is super interesting and lets folks from all walks of life to get together and just play, spending a couple of hours of their day/night that are not pre-assigned to a Fortune 500 corp. Well..

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 19/09/2026

blowing and it took me months of feeling like I was in a room with people speaking in a foreign language of which I understood only 20%. Over time, the weekly night we play D&D from 20h to 22h (after the kids are in bed and not too late for work next day), became my favorite night of the week. And

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 19/09/2026

For the last year, I’ve been playing Dungeons and Dragons 🐉 with a group of other parents. I knew absolutely nothing going on, and was mostly looking for community in the city where I live. At first it was very overwhelming, the amount of rules and knowledge to play your very first game is mind

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 13/09/2026

Closing jars. Landing planes. The metaphors are plenty. Completing something (anything!) is hard, and likely harder than starting. The best way I’ve seen this described is James Stanier latest article. Read it here: theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/landing-th...

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Landing the plane

The last 10% is the hardest.

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 12/09/2026

Simon Willison on 20+ years of blogging: it brought most of his jobs, talks, and consulting gigs, especially since leaning into AI coverage in 2022. His advice: lower your standards, hit publish -- drafts folders help no one. writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-will...

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 11/09/2026

Google has succeeded in making the Google Home/Screen device into a worse product with the switch from their rigid voice model to some sort of LLM. Things that were trivial to do before are now a guessing game of whether the device will comply or not. 🤦

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 10/09/2026

That’s impossible!… isn’t it? There is light at the end of the tunnel (even after 12(!) years)?

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 06/09/2026

Anton Zaides on assigning work as an EM: balance efficiency (fastest person for the job), advancement (stretch goals), and durability (avoid single points of failure). Match support to task-relevant maturity, not general seniority. newsletter.manager.dev/p/who-does-w...

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 05/09/2026

Used Claude Code's agent teams (Datadog+Slack+Sentry via MCP) to investigate a prod incident with two prompts. Four agents found root cause in ~10 min vs a solo 30-45min. ~4x the tokens, best for multi-hypothesis bugs. magarcia.io/using-claude...

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Buffer @buffer.com · 03/09/2026

If you use @raycast.com, you can now create posts and capture ideas in Buffer without leaving your command bar.

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 29/08/2026

You often have one style of leadership because of the first experience you had as a a manager. Don’t forget to meet the current situation and keep increasing your range. open.substack.com/pub/stephmif...

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What's your range?

How to grow as a leader, without career ladders.

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Buffer @buffer.com · 27/08/2026

Miguel David, Engineering Manager at Buffer, had 200 unread articles and no time to read or write about them. Until: he vibe-coded a macOS app that summarizes 10 at a time and queues them using the Buffer API! 🧵

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 26/08/2026

This is happening so much that your most loyal customers will be forced to move away at some point. Why is reliability so low? 😞

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 26/08/2026

I bought a cap from a company with shipping in Latvia and the US. For the color I chose apparently they sent it from the US. The cap cost around 20 euro. The customs about 3 euro. The fees for Belgian "custom formalities"? 21.50 euro. Unbelievable. 🤯

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 23/08/2026

These days, focused attention can be the scarcest asset. That’s why I try to protect my teams time for deep project work as much as I can. The results can be astonishing when compared with jumping back and from.

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 22/08/2026

to create applications with minimum friction. The resulting numbers are staggering and the energy, creativity and ideas amazing. How is your team thinking about up-skilling in AI and leveraging internal creativity? (3/3)

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 22/08/2026

the projects were individual the work was collaborative. During the week we also had multiple folks talking about different aspects of their AI workflows. And the cherry on top was the platform that was built over the last few months for our internal tools, which enables anyone technical or not(2/3)

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 22/08/2026

Our internal Build Week at Buffer just finished. I've been part of similar Hackathons/Innovation Weeks/etc before. But this one was special: it started with an app to level up AI knowledge on a personalized path a couple of weeks before. Then it paired Buferoos during the week so that although (1/3)

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 17/08/2026

The goal was to scratch a personal itch and to find papercuts to surface to the right teams. By the way, this message was written and posted using the app. :) (2/2)

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 17/08/2026

It’s Build Week at Buffer! So Claude and I had some fun with the API and created a menu bar app for personal use. It only takes text, the channels you want and “Share Now” or “Queue”. It also automatically splits long posts for Bluesky. (1/2)

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 16/08/2026

I’ve heard the expression “weasel words” applied to many terms we use for probabilities. And they are vague on purpose, but are they fit for work context? Here’s an idea: use Fermi numbers, not words to make the message clearer.

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For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words

Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 15/08/2026

Next week is Build Week at #Buffer. Think Hackathon, for Buferoos to tinker with AI and develop something for themselves, the company or the community. I’m in pre-build-week mode building “machines” with my kids. The one time when over-engineering is not a problem 😁

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 15/08/2026

100%. I keep dreaming about the day that bank competition is real and the interest they give their customers isn’t mostly fixed/arranged.

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Miguel David @migueldavid.eu · 14/08/2026

This is just a general feeling of things moving faster. More features are expected and yes, bug are expected to be solved faster as well, but that's different from things like reliability and uptime. Just look at GitHub Status page.

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