Nelson da Costa

The Root Cause Fallacy In which framing it as a root cause means you've already lost

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Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/n...

Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer. You can’t practice it beforehand (no, open source does not give you the same experience). Personal…

Some concrete, helpful advice - Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases www.seangoedecke.com/large-establ...

Le syndrome B2BigB : comment les grands groupes tuent doucement les startups Vendre à un grand groupe semble être la validation ultime pour une startup. C'est souvent le début de la fin. Cycles de vente interminables, trésorerie en tension, produit détourné de sa roadmap : voi...

Le syndrome B2BigB.
Je suis sûr que ça va parler à beaucoup de monde :)
eventuallycoding.com/2026/02/b2bigb

Never Run Claude /init Learn why auto-generated Claude.md files hurt your coding agents and what to use instead for better performance and lower costs.

www.aihero.dev/never-run-cl...

Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself) Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon

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Claude Code overview - Claude Code Docs Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and integrates with your development tools. Available in your terminal, IDE, desktop app, and browser.

'Most developers overload their AI agent instruction files with rules that actively degrade performance, read more here wordman.dev/blog/agent-i... by @wordman.dev

Software Craftsmanship in the AI Era Explore how AI tools are transforming software development and the importance of maintaining Software Craftsmanship for quality and maintainability.

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What Skills Do Developers NEED To Have In An AI Future? YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering

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Europe’s tech sovereignty watch | Proton for Business Europe’s biggest businesses run on US tech — putting its privacy and sovereignty at risk. Read our study on how bad the problem is and why we urgently need a Europe-first tech policy.

Proton publie un post pour sensibiliser aux pays les plus dépendants de la tech US : proton.me/business/eur...

La france n'est pas bien lotie (mais on s'en doutait)

En cherchant comment diminuer le cout d'envoi des emails je suis tombé sur un projet open source qui gère tout l'envoi en self hosted : docs.postalserver.io

J'ai eu de bons échos dessus. Ca peut valoir le coup pour beaucoup de boites.

From Craft to Compliance. The future of software engineering?

fffej.substack.com/p/from-craft...

Why Am I Doing the Thinking for You? ‘What do you think?’ without a position isn’t a question — it’s a task assignment. State your opinion first. Let people react to something concrete.

Why Am I Doing the Thinking for You? terriblesoftware.org/2026/02/02/w...

Quand le code devient une commodité: La montée des sociétés AI natives Après le Cloud Native, place aux entreprises IA Natives. Découvrez comment l'IA transforme le code en commodité et pourquoi le dilemme

eventuallycoding.com/2026/01/ai-n...

www.spakhm.com/ai-interviews

Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software A curated collection of the best open source alternatives to everyday SaaS products. Save money with reliable tools hand-picked for you.

Je viens de découvrir

euroalternative.co (pour des alternatives aux softs US)
par le même auteur que openalternative.co (alternatives open sources)

C'est plutôt clean et si ca peut servir a d'autres.

Performance Reviews Are the Scorecard of Capitalism (And Why That Should Free You) Credit: Daniel Dalea / Unsplash Every review season is an emotional rollercoaster. Anxiety. Self assessments. Anticipation. Disappointment. As an IC, I felt like how much it impacted me was a perso…

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www.stevesmith.tech/blog/unaccou...

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My LLM coding workflow going into 2026 Best practices for staying in control while coding with AI

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Prioritize Relatively It is not enough to assess whether an idea is good or not but rather necessary to compare it to all other ideas you could be pursuing

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What hospital triage can teach us about planning Or, what I've learned listening to my wife.

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Beyond the Hype: What I Actually Learned Building Software with AI Forget magic wands. Here is the concrete, practical workflow I use to build software with AI—from specific phrasing to managing agent tools.

www.anthonyquere.fr/blog/beyond-...

Pinky and the Brain: my agent/subagent duo OpenCode’s agents configuration and Beads. A match made in heaven. My flow until now Working on a task starts with the Plan agent. I provide an initial prompt of what I want to achieve and th…

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21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

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6 Safe Refactorings for Untested Legacy Code — Nicolas Carlo YouTube video by ConFoo Developer Conference

Hey, my talk "6 Safe Refactorings for Untested Legacy Code" that I gave at @confooca.bsky.social 2025 is available online!

How cool is that? 😄

So here it is: I'm presenting you with 6 moves you can use in VS Code to refactor untested code ✊

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YEm...

ICs vs Managers vs Leaders: Why Real Leadership is Rare It should be considered that there is nothing more difficult to handle, more doubtful of success, or more dangerous to carry through than to initiate a new order of things. For the innovator makes ene...

www.leadingsapiens.com/ics-managers...

Why logic alone never convinces anyone You're not a failed Vulcan, you're just outnumbered by humans

Why logic alone never convinces anyone
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What Actually Makes You Senior The one skill that separates senior engineers from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.Retry

What Actually Makes You Senior terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/w...