In my Deep Work post I argued that focused, uninterrupted concentration is the most important productivity tool an engineer has. I still believe that. But something has changed — and I think it challenges, or at least evolves, Newport’s thesis...
I run AI coding agents every day now. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot. And it is far too easy to just… let them loose. Full internet access, click allow on everything, the works. Then I started wondering — what exactly is...
Introduction This has been a bit of a strange year for me personally and I have to admit I have struggled a bit mentally — so when summer came and it was time for a break, I was really ready...
I came back from a year off blogging and decided the site needed a facelift. I’m not a UX designer, I don’t write Ruby, and I wasn’t about to spend a weekend wrestling with CSS from scratch — so I...
As soon as I heard about this book I know I had to read it, Vibe Coding by Steve Yegge and Gene Kim is one of those titles that makes you nervous before you even crack it open — because...