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One at a time, reads worth slowing down for.
| Title | Type | Added | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| If You Build It, They Will Come | Article | 8/18/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Middle management roles are also a trap. | Article | 8/16/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Roadmap decisions rather than dates. | Article | 8/12/2026 | ★★★★☆ |
| How to Lead Your Team when the House Is on Fire | Article | 8/8/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Less envelopes, more letters | Article | 8/8/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| The Best Prioritization Is No Prioritization | Article | 7/29/2026 | ★★★★☆ |
| How building software is changing at Anthropic | Article | 7/29/2026 | ★★☆☆☆ |
| 3 things top 1% teams do differently | Article | 7/28/2026 | ★★★★☆ |
| Pushing software engineering limits with “napkin math” | Article | 7/27/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| "okay" vs excellent engineering teams | Article | 7/27/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| The Pulse: Grok’s CLI caught uploading all your local files to the cloud | Article | 7/17/2026 | ★★★★☆ |
| Concrete Laptop Stand | Article | 7/7/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| LLMs are picking winners. Here’s how to become one | Article | 7/2/2026 | ★★★☆☆ |
| AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less | Article | 7/1/2026 | ★★★★☆ |
| What AI Is Doing to School | Article | 7/1/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Cloudflare app ecosystem with OAuth for all | Article | 7/1/2026 | ★★★☆☆ |
| Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization? | Article | 6/16/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Distributed Systems lecture series | Video | 6/13/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| How I Doubled eBay’s Productivity - And Still Got Fired | Video | 6/13/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| State of the software engineering job market in 2026 | Article | 6/7/2026 | ★★★☆☆ |
| Audience Capture and Short-Form Slop | Article | 6/7/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Lifting status | Article | 6/7/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| If You’re Never Wrong at Work, You’re Probably Not Leading | Article | 6/7/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE | Article | 6/7/2026 | ★★★☆☆ |
| Chinese Dating Dystopia | Article | 5/17/2026 | ★★★☆☆ |
| The Pulse: Did capacity shortages turn Anthropic hostile to devs? | Article | 5/17/2026 | ★★★★☆ |
| Who will be the senior engineers of 2035? | Article | 4/25/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| how-to-setup-ollama-on-a-macmini | Article | 4/25/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Concrete Laptop Stand | Article | 4/23/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Some unusual trees | Article | 4/20/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend | Article | 4/20/2026 | ★★★★☆ |
| Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham | Podcast | 4/12/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| “How to be a 10x engineer” – interview with a standout dev | Article | 4/9/2026 | ★★★★☆ |
| The trillion-dollar perception gap between Silicon Valley and normal people. | Article | 4/9/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Brain Device for Seniors | Video | 3/13/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| Zach is 18 & made $50m from an app. Here's the brutal breakdown of how he did it | Video | 3/13/2026 | ★★★★☆ |
| What PieDiePie can teach us about Failure | Video | 3/13/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| The Pulse: What will the Staff Engineer role look like in 2027 and beyond? | Article | 3/13/2026 | ★★★★★ |
| The Pulse: AWS region knocked offline by drone attack in historic first | Article | 3/13/2026 | ★★★★☆ |
| Gas Town - multi-agent workspace manager | Tool | 3/13/2026 | ★★★☆☆ |