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7 posts from engineering leaders published September 30, 2026, by Allen Pike, Simon Willison, Jamie Tanna and 3 more.
Updated through Mon Oct 12, with new polling and updates based on feedback. Every four years, certain odd traditions happen. The Olympics. Leap Days. Vancouverites attempting to pick their top 10 Council candidates out of 56 randomly sorted names, 20 of whom are for parties that…
I visited the Museum of the City of New York today and got to see He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model , the 50 x27 feet model of the city built over a 21 year period from balsa wood and cardboard. It exceeded my already high expectations. The exhibition closes on 12th October…
You know what's a little bit sad to think to yourself? Wow, I'm a little bit jealous of how nice that person's Slack message looks And yet, that something I thought to myself last week 😅 I was looking at a colleague's message - which was posted to Slack via Claude - and it had…
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 I've recently been doing some work with improving the performance of Renovate on larger repositories. To guide this investigation, I'm leveraging our OpenTelemetry support to more meaningfully understand how Renovate operates in…
Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe sets out the principles that follow from that idea — control over the rate of knowledge exposition,…
A long-standing lux.js bug left Event Timing on its 104 ms default, while browser releases improve testing and rendering performance.
The most important factor to consider when expanding a team is that the usefulness of incremental hires is not linear. Here are the hiring breakpoints that matter.