Jeff Bailey

PSA: As a software development professional, I recommend reviewing code before shipping it. Or at least implementing a rock-solid high-defense CI/CD strategy paired with tight ACLs to prevent database deletions.

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#GenAI #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering

Moar skillz. 💪

Is Aspirational CTO better?

Working on the margins.

#FractionalCTO #CTO #Margarine

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How Do I Use GitHub Private Mirrors? GitHub Private Mirrors let organizations contribute upstream without exposing drafts. What they are, why they exist, and how the GitHub Private Mirrors App works.

You can believe in open source and still use guardrails.

Learn how to mirror public repositories to protect your enterprise.

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#opensource #github #softwareengineering #enterprisedev #compliance #openbydesign

What Is SBOM? SBOM is a Software Bill of Materials listing all components in software. Understand why it exists, how it works, and its role in software supply chains.

The software supply chain is already broken. SBOMs help you see where.

Learn how to make software visibility your first step.

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#Software #SBOM #SoftwareSupplyChain #AppSec #OpenSourceSecurity #DevSecOps #OSS #SRE #PlatformEngineering

What Is an OSPO? An Open Source Program Office (OSPO) coordinates strategy, compliance, and contributions. Learn what an OSPO is, why it exists, and how it works.

Legal, security, and devs walk into a bar. The OSPO keeps it from burning down.

Learn how OSPOs coordinate teams that could easily talk past each other.

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#OpenSource #OSPO #SoftwareGovernance #SoftwareSupplyChain #RiskManagement #OpenSourceSecurity

Logical Fallacies in Software Development Logical fallacies like sunk cost, false dichotomy, and confirmation bias derail software projects. Learn to recognize and avoid faulty reasoning traps.

Learn how appeal to authority influences tech choices, helping distinguish evidence from hype.

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#TechnicalLeadership #SystemDesign #Architecture #ProductManagement #CriticalThinking

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You may like this. It’s a fun family experience. 😀

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If you’re writing software that solves these problems well you’ll at least keep a job for a while.

Bots, not so much. Look at any social media platform and you’ll see a flood of bots hawking their new AI wares to make a buck. It’s already true that the enshitification-larity was achieved on the likes of Facebook, expect the trend to accelerate.

Email spam tools are mostly “done” with a consistent update cadence required to keep the barbarians at the gate.

The velocity of code generation and deployment is off the rails. We already had a software quality problem before augmented coding took the paradigm to eleven. Expect code quality and recovery to become even more critical.

Agents creating hundreds of thousands of lines of code isn’t free. AnySphere, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, and AWS are all subsidizing the real cost of augmented workflows to varying degrees. It’s understandable that they are given their need to keep developers coming to their walled gardens.

The next big frontiers of software development:

1. Augmented workflow optimization
2. F1-level recovery and quality control systems
3. Bot spam management

Learn Neovim A comprehensive guide to mastering Neovim, the modern Vim fork with enhanced features for efficient text editing and coding

Neovim 😉

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The CLI is the promised land for software development.

A List of OSPO Resources: Guides, Tools, and Communities for Open Source Program Offices Curated OSPO resources for starting and running an OSPO: guides, tools, communities, and maturity models from TODO Group, Linux Foundation, and OSPO Alliance.

Structure is not the enemy of openness. It's what makes it sustainable.

These resources show how experienced teams balance both.

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#OpenSource #OSPO #Collaboration #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

Cool, I hope they offered tacos! 🌮🌮🌮

A List of Software Engineering Blogs: Tech Company Engineering Blogs A curated directory of software engineering blogs from leading technology companies. Find engineering blogs from Meta, Google, Netflix, AWS, and more. Includes RSS feeds and covers system design, API ...

I trust Netflix’s engineers more than most tech influencers.

Here's a curated list of real engineering blogs written by people shipping real software.

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#Blogs #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

What Are Agent Skills? Agent Skills explained: why they exist, how they work conceptually, and how they solve AI agent capability gaps through reusable procedural knowledge packages.

If you've given instructions to an LLM twice, you could have written a skill.

What Agent Skills are, and how they can replace manual prompt chains.

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#AgentSkills #Claude #ClaudeCode #MCP #AI #GenAI

A List of Open Source LLMs: Coding and Writing Models for Local AI A list of open-source language models for coding and writing. Compare code LLMs, writing models, and coding AI tools that work with Ollama, LM Studio, and Jan.

You'll need a backup plan when Office 365 Copilot (Clippy 📎) goes down and when OpenAI runs out of money. 💸

Here's a list of Open Source LLMs ready to save you from cloud-hosted LLMs.

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#LLMs #GPT #OpenSource #Ollama #AI #ChatGPT #Copilot #

ABOLISH ICE!!!

#ICE #Corruption #Politics #Republicans #GOP #Insurrection #Sedition #Traitors

Choosing between centralized and distributed systems doesn’t have to be ideological.

Learn how to make decisions based on constraints, not trends.

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#SoftwareArchitecture #SystemDesign #DistributedSystems #Monolith #Microservices #SoftwareFundamentals

How a codebase written entirely with AI runs

#AI #GenAI #RubeGoldberg #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

Fundamentals of Program Management Learn program management fundamentals: coordinating multiple projects, managing interdependencies, and aligning work with strategic objectives. Understand why programs exist and how they work.

Your software delivery program's plan says “TBD,” while your dependencies say “LOL.”

Learn to replace software delivery vibes with clarified and realistic dependency coordination.

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#Program #Software #Delivery

Fundamentals of Software Project Management Learn core software project management principles: scope, time, cost, quality. Understand why software projects fail and how to deliver on time and budget.

The Death Star blew up because someone put a critical dependency on a single exhaust port.

Learn how single points of failure kill projects.

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#Projects #ProjectManagement #SoftwareEngineering #ProductManagement #Software #SoftwareDevelopment

I see you, aspiring developers. 👀

#AI #GenAI #IT #Career #Software #Technology #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #SoftwareEngineering

What Is MCP? Model Context Protocol (MCP) explained: why it exists, how it works conceptually, and how it solves AI-LLM integration challenges through standardized protocols.

I’m not sure if MCP is better than USB yet, but it has a 50/50 chance. 🪙

What is this Model Context Protocol anyway?

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#MCP #ModelContextProtocol #AI #LLM #APIs #JSONRPC #Protocols #SystemDesign #Integration #DevTools

Fundamentals of API Design and Contracts API design fundamentals for contracts, compatibility, and reliability, so integrations stay predictable as systems evolve.

Integration with your API shouldn’t require psychic powers.

Learn how explicit semantics reduce guesswork.

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#APIDesign #APIs #SoftwareEngineering #DistributedSystems #SystemDesign #APIContracts #PlatformEngineering #OpenAPI #RESTAPIs