Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents can discover and use on demand. They’re an open standard that works across Claude, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, Cursor, and OpenAI’s Codex. A skill is just a directory with a...
Stop having pet projects; that’s a Staff Engineer’s domain. For a manager, every project is cattle: it needs to be completed, automated, delegated, or cancelled. Jampa Uchoa - Lessons Learned After 10 Years as an Engineering Manager I’ve b...
I find the usual conversations about AI and creativity to be pretty boring - we’ve been talking about cameras and sampling for years now, and I’m not particularly interested in getting mired down in the muck of the morality and economics of it ...
Washington state has a larger economy than Argentina or Sweden. We’re home to two of the world’s five most valuable companies, a major aerospace manufacturer, the nation’s seventh-largest container port, and a $14 billion agricultural industry. Ou...
The nature of software development is changing out from under us, and I think we’re kidding ourselves that it’s going to end with just a reconfiguration of how professional developers ship software. I have kids. They have devices. I wanted s...
What hath God wrought Samuel Morse - First telegraph message, May 24, 1844 On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse tapped out this message from the Supreme Court Chamber in the Capitol to his partner Alfred Vail in Baltimore. The words came from Num...
This week, Washington state Representatives Hall, Callan, Reed, and Leavitt prefiled HB 2296, a bill that would legalize plug-in “balcony solar” systems in Washington. It’s modeled on Utah’s bipartisan HB 340, which passed unanimously last year, b...
Join the conversation on Hacker News. As a maintainer of several OneBusAway projects, I regularly ask contributors to rebase their branches before merging. The response is often hesitation or outright fear. I get it. Rebase has a reputation for d...
For the past year, I’ve been leading the development of Maglev, a complete rewrite of the OneBusAway server. The original system was built in Java over a decade ago, and while it still works, it’s showing its age. Maglev is a greenfield project in...
Once, I was leading engineering on a product caught in multiple overlapping crises. Our biggest customer was breaking the database simply through their size and usage patterns. Other customers threatened to churn unless we could provide new featur...
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