ZA/UM Studios to lay off up to 32 workers two months after releasing Zero Parades: For Dead Spies
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies developer ZA/UM Studios has filed redundancy notices with 32 employees.
Career & Hiring
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Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the first day of the Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/)
What a $20 coding subscription actually buys
Someone's subsidizing your coding agent. Aperture shows whether it's you.
We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design
Our second developer productivity study faces selection effects from wider AI adoption, prompting us to redesign our approach.
You've likely heard "fake it til you make it"...well, Mark has done that, and talks about it here.
You've probably heard the phrase "fake it 'til you make it", right? Well, Mark was once asked to teach a college course...that started the next day. He decided to go for it, and the students thought he'd been doing it for years. The lesson: sometimes you say yes and then figure out how to do it.
Labor unions challenge Xbox, GameStop CEO says physical game sales are 'irrelevant,' and Glen Schofield retires - Patch Notes #61
Plus: A free 'good practice guide' for video game writing contracts in the UK.
We're Going to Make Out Like Bandits
Here’s the plan. I reckon it’ll take about five years in all, and I think we’re about 1.5 to 2 years in already.
The skills gap behind agentic AI — and how Databricks is closing it with a new context engineer certification and agent trainings
* Industry-first Context Engineering certification: Launched at Data+AI Summit, the new Databricks Certified Context Engineer Associate beta exam validates the technical depth required to curate optimal context windows and build reliable agentic systems * Expanded learning catalog: Databricks ha...
Announcing .NET Modernization for Beginners
A free, open-source, hands-on course that walks you through modernizing a real legacy ASP.NET application all the way to .NET 10 using the GitHub Copilot modernization agent, step by step.
Unions take legal action against Microsoft for allegedly mishandling Xbox layoffs
CWA Canada president Carmel Smyth claims the company 'unlawfully fired people without giving notice to or discussing it with the union.'
ZeniMax Online Studios leadership included in Xbox mass layoffs
The studio head, studio operations director, and studio game director of ZeniMax Online Studios join dozens of senior and lead positions cut.
Pokemon Go owner Scopely 'reorganizes' Stumble Guys team
Pokemon go owner Scopely has decided to 'reorganize' its steam supporting Stumble Guys, affecting a 'small number of employees.'
The Developer Has Changed. So Should Developer Conferences
Discover why Docker is co-hosting WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America and how AI agents are transforming software development and developer communities.
At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
A chronological ledger of 105 YC founders connected to OpenAI or Anthropic, from their earliest YC batches to where they went next.
Elastic’s guide to AI in the interview process
As the Search AI Company, we understand the value of AI. We use it. We build with it. We believe in its power to augment human potential. But when you’re applying to join Elastic, we’re searching for ...
Why I Left Google DeepMind
I fought against Google’s Pentagon AI deal from the inside. Powerful people and institutions failed to keep their AI ethics promises under pressure.
Former Epic Games VP appointed Saber Interactive's chief business officer
Steve Allison, former Epic Games VP, has been appointed chief business officer at Saber Interactive, where he will report directly to CEO Matthew Karch.
NYU opens incubator applications for New York City-area devs
The NYC Game Design Future Lab offers mentorship, workshop, and investor opportunities for Big Apple-based developers.
How to unionize your tech workplace
Mass layoffs, AI anxiety, and corporate surveillance have heightened interest in unions among IT professionals. Organizers who've been through it explain how to get started — and what to expect.
UK union launches free resource to decode video game writing contracts
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain said it has witnessed an increase in poor practices around writing contracts in recent years.
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Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
and why communication is so important
IWGB Game Workers union forms 'redundancy taskforce' to defend workers' rights
'With training, solidarity and support, workers can stand up to bosses who use redundancy to cover for their own mismanagement and greed.'
'The entire thing is going to fall apart:' Inside the latest round of mass layoffs at Xbox
Multiple workers impacted by the latest job cuts at Xbox believe the decision will hamstring some studios.
CEO Rowan Trollope’s organizational announcement to Redis employees
Rowan Trollope shares an organizational change at Redis and explains why the company is realigning to focus on the AI and agent era ahead.
Shipping Is Your Company's Heartbeat: A Letter from a CTO
The world is especially hard right now. The future of the software engineering profession looks more uncertain than ever.
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Punch yourself in the face with reality
Who can punch themselves in the face with reality the most? This is who will win in the age of AI.
What makes CIOs trust an AI agent? Thira bets it’s not the model.
Sunny Gupta spent a decade and a half building Apptio into the system of record for enterprise technology spend. His
How to hire engineers for strong judgment and taste
Why engineering judgment matters more than ever and how leading companies are redesigning hiring to find engineers who can actually think.
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The Alters and Frostpunk developer 11 Bit Studios is laying off 20 employees
The studio said it has managed to mitigate the number of job cuts by transferring employees to other internal teams.
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Presentation: Road to Compliance: Will Your Internal Users Hate Your Platform Team?
Davide de Paolis shares how to scale internal compliance and platform engineering without breaking developer velocity, detailing automated feedback loops and "minimum viable governance" on AWS.
'A kick in the teeth:' Game workers protest alleged misconduct at MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy
'Whilst the goingson at BARB sound extreme, game workers know that shocking treatment from bosses is rife across the sector.'
Engineering managers are paying the price of rising expectations
How engineering managers can make leadership capacity visible before judgment, coaching, and technical oversight start to degrade.
AI-coding agents spread through peer pressure, not mandates
Microsoft research on AI-coding agent adoption reveals engineers follow their peers, not mandates.
Our company has no employees. Here's the complete operating system it runs on.
I need to get the disclosure out of the way first, because it is the whole point of this post. The...
𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀
What happens when the solution you build to make work easier eventually makes an entire team...
Documenting My Journey Through Computer Science, Software Development, and Problem Solving
While learning core computer science subjects or development or any tech stack understanding...
Anthropic’s newest enterprise partner is training 20,000 people on Claude — here’s the shift it signals
UST joins Anthropic's Claude Partner Network, training 20,000 developers and embedding Claude into engineering platforms for semiconductor, telecom, and enterprise AI workflows.
My Journey to Become a Better Backend Engineer
Hi everyone! this is my first post here on dev. About 4 days ago I realized I'm stuck as a mid-level...
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What eight years of freelancing taught me about pricing
The first time a client said yes to a quote without hesitating, I felt sick. This was early on. I'd...
From Resetting Passwords to Containerizing Java: My Pivot to DevOps
For 4 years, I lived in the world of IT Operations. My days were spent handling incident response,...
The Countdown Begins: Preparing for My Next Chapter in Tech!
The offer is signed, the dates are set, and the countdown to my first official tech role is...
Every engineering metric gets gamed. One of them structurally can't.
Lines, commits, velocity, DORA, even churn — every metric that measures activity ends up gamed, because activity is cheap to produce. There is one number in a git history you can't move by being busier. Here's why, and the data.
Vibe Coding and the New Developer Interview: What to Expect in 2026
A year ago, the debate over whether candidates should be allowed to use AI tools during take-home...
The Complete Guide to Remote Work in Europe in 2026
Working remotely in Europe is genuinely different from working remotely in, say, the US or Canada....
Engineering Team Structures: Squads, Tribes, and Guilds Explained
How you organize your engineering teams is one of the highest-leverage decisions a growing tech...
# Why I'm Restarting My DSA Journey (And Documenting Every Step)
Hi, DEV Community! 👋 I'm Khushi, and welcome to the beginning of my Data Structures and Algorithms...
From a CMS in a College Dorm to Full Stack Engineering: My First Two Years in Tech
I still remember the first time I saw a production bug crash right in front of a client, live, during...
How I Built ProjectHub: An Embeddable AI Recruiter Assistant That Runs on Free Tiers
I built a chat widget for my portfolio. One script tag, drop it on a page, and recruiters can ask...
The Junior Engineer Is Not Disappearing. The Way We Train One Is.
AI is eating spec-to-code work, not the junior engineer. Judgment now gets built on purpose: the junior in the loop with the agent, before the first job.
In defense of not understanding your codebase
As a software engineer, how well do you have to understand your own codebase?
The "Just One More Prompt" Loop: The Neurobiology of AI-Induced Burnout
It's 2:00 AM. The bug has been circling for three hours. You know you should sleep, but your hands...
Hello, World! Launching my Developer YouTube Channel (@devkingov) 🚀
Every developer knows that the best way to truly master a concept is to teach it to someone else....
The SaaS Metrics Every Founder Should Track (MRR, CAC, LTV, Runway)
Most early SaaS dashboards I see track the wrong things. Page views. Signups. Total revenue this...
Own the roadmap, not the backlog
Nobody tells you the day the work stops arriving pre-decided. For two years the work arrives pre-decided. "Add a price filter to search." You open th…
App Market Research: A Data-Driven Guide for Indie Developers
If you're an indie developer deciding what to build next, you don't need a $500/month market research...
Time-blocking mostly failed me. Two pieces of it saved my week anyway.
Last spring I opened the same draft six times before noon and never finished a single paragraph. I'd...
QA & SDET Salary Report India 2026: Verified, Sourced, Reconciled
Six public salary sources for India's QA/SDET market, reconciled with an open methodology. Every figure cited; ranges, not point numbers.
Leetcode for the win!
GRIND404: I turned my "Passion" for LeetCode into a playable arcade game DEV Weekend...
Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
Learn programming by building real systems from scratch. Redis, Git, a database, a compiler — every lesson is choose, write, run.
Successful companies go blind
The Mexican cavefish kept its eye genes for over a million years after the eyes themselves disappeared. Something similar happens to companies once they achieve success.
“Every IC engineer is really a front line manager now.” But are they productive?
AI coding agents make it easy to pump out code, but leaders say that’s not real productivity.
'We mean business:' Xbox union workers fighting back with 'Save Our Devs' rally on July 15
The protest is being organized by union members at Bethesda Game Studios.
Asha Sharma joins Federal Reserve advisory task force days after laying off thousands at Xbox
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is joining a Federal Reserve task force analyzing the impact of AI and other technologies on jobs and productivity.
Jensen Huang says traditional coding is dead. Here’s what comes next.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang says engineers now prefer building AI agents over writing Python. Here's how coding jobs are evolving, not disappearing.
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Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig
Ghostty and Terraform maker and Hashicorp founder talks about open source, terminals and Zig.
JetBrains Academy – June Digest
Discover new ways to showcase your work, learn about AI by building real projects, and rethink how you use chatbots as you learn to code.
Learning how to ask good questions is a key skill you should work on
Learning how to ask good questions is a key skill you should work on. Zubin discusses this with Quincy on the freeCodeCamp podcast.
Update: WARN notice confirms at least 52 Obsidian workers are being laid off
The Pentiment and The Outer Worlds studio is losing 60-70 employees in the cuts.
The 2026 engineer paradox: more capable, but more alone
AI-coding tools are eroding the collaboration and knowledge sharing that made engineering teams stronger – and what leaders can do about it.
Xbox has laid off 379 Zenimax workers in Maryland
That includes 213 employees at The Elder Scrolls Online developer ZeniMax Online Studios.
The One About the Pro Leisure Circuit (Again)
In our 99th episode, Rands is back on the Pro Leisure Circuit — infinite time, a suspicious amount of Arc Raiders, and no wind in the sails — and we
Benchmarking Coding Agents on Databricks’ Multi-Million Line Codebase
Databricks shares results from its internal coding benchmark, evaluating coding agents on a multi-million line codebase to optimize engineering cost and performance.
Blizzard eliminates 'small number' of roles in China
The news comes with Activision Blizzard's parent company cutting jobs across the board.
'Used, abused, and discarded:' CWA Canada slams Microsoft over handling of Bethesda layoffs
The union claims around a dozen roles have been eliminated at Bethesda Game Studios Montreal.
Developers on the frontline of the SaaS replacement wave
AI is prompting engineering teams to replace SaaS with custom builds – and the realities that make it harder than it looks.
Why problem-solving is key for developers
It may sound basic, but problem solving is one of the most important skills you can develop - as a dev, and as a human. Mark talks about what that looks like in programming on the freeCodeCamp podcast.
If anyone can vibe code a product, who needs developers?
Vibe coding can clone your product in days. Here’s what it can’t replicate and why that changes what software developers actually are.
Vercel acquires Better Auth to accelerate open source auth
Vercel is acquiring Better Auth, the open source TypeScript auth library. It stays free and MIT licensed as the team builds identity for the agent era.
The Mario Meeting
Review season. You start your career thinking the review is the most important milestone of the year, but as an individual, you only see part of the picture.
AI productivity is burning out your best engineers
Why mid-level engineers are burning out under the cost of AI productivity and four changes to make before your best people leave.
The One About The Joy of Bots
In our 98th episode, we list the things we've been building with our robots and figure out who we're really yelling at when it all goes wrong. Mentioned, refer
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Quoting Josh W. Comeau
I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story …
Enginefall developer Red Rover Interactive is making layoffs
The studio has raised $20 million since breaking cover three years ago.
Rockstar workers hit back, PlayStation ditches physical discs, and chipmakers accused of price fixing - Patch Notes #59
Plus: Union creates hardship fund to support laid off developers and Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature.
The Pulse: a new trend, smart model routing
Are there any ‘intelligent’ router solutions out there which select the right model for the right task? I looked into it, and there are a few options.
Union workers establish hardship fund to support devs impacted by layoffs
Game developers in the United States and Canada will be able to request up to $5,000 through the fund.
Thinking about running for the PSF Board? Let’s talk!
PSF Board elections are a chance for the community to choose representatives to help the PSF create a vision for and build the future of the...
Rockstar accused of ignoring pay inequity, mandating crunch, and weaponizing bonuses
Multiple current Rockstar employees and union members based in the UK claim the Grand Theft Auto maker is failing its workforce.
Why your AI bill is bigger than it should be
How a $287 AI bill led to an open-source tool that saved users $700,000 – and why token hygiene is the next engineering discipline.
What Song is on Repeat in Your Head?
What’s it like to be you? Where did you get your name? What’s your story? What do you want to be when you grow up? What haven’t you done? What do you w
IO Interactive to lay off employees after Xbox pulls support for untitled fantasy game
Xbox's business reset is driving layoffs outside of Microsoft.
Opinion: Everything hurts and no one knows when the pain will end
As mass layoffs continue in the game industry, developers must reckon with how to handle the uncertainty and pain of the moment.
AI-generated code sparks production confidence crisis
Why a third of engineering teams won’t ship their own AI-generated code and what it says about the state of AI coding in 2026.
Grand Theft Auto developers seek union recognition at Rockstar
'Rockstar leads the industry in the games we create. We believe it can also lead the industry in how it treats the people who make them.'
AI coding is addictive. Engineers are paying the price
AI coding tools are keeping engineers hooked and burning them out. These habits can help before the dopamine loop does lasting damage.
DSF member of the month - Salim Nuru
Posted by Sarah Abderemane on June 29, 2026
So You Want to Fix Your All Hands
I will now explain why at least 50% of your team finds your current All Hands to be a waste of their time. They believe: This is information they can easily
How to prepare for your engineering manager interview
How to prepare for the engineering manager interview – from building a story bank and knowing your leadership style to navigating technical rounds.
Pollen tried to remove my article about CEO Callum Negus-Fancey and CTO Bradley Wright, and Google is assisting with it
In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen. The short of it: Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building a solid software engineering organization. In Apr...
Keywords has laid off 128 employees in San Francisco
It's currently unclear what roles or departments have been impacted.
Transitioning as a Hubber
How GitHub's culture and benefits helped me be the best version of myself.
VR dev Combat Waffle Studios lays off staff
Combat Waffle Studios, the VR developer behind Ghosts of Tabor, has laid off staff after a project with a 'large platform partner' was cancelled.
AI-coding agents are now the default. What comes next?
How Linear went agent-first overnight, what the productivity numbers look like, and what to manage when AI agents become the default.
Killing a project is every engineering leader’s hardest call
Why defending a struggling project isn’t always good engineering leadership and the rubric that makes the hardest call easier.
New members of the Technical Steering Committee
In April, we invited applications for the new Typelevel Technical Steering Committee (TSC). We were delighted by the overwhelming response! Thank you to everyone who applied—it is inspiring to see so much passion and dedication in our community for growing Typelevel together.
Reliability fail: No automated zone failover for Coinbase’s global trading service
Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from this past The Pulse issue. Full subscribers received the artic...
Engineering managers ditch cloud AI for local LLMs
Local LLMs are emerging as a third option for engineering managers caught between expensive licences and legal teams that won’t approve cloud AI.
You can vibe code a demo, but what about a product?
What it takes to ship a generative AI product – from inference economics and safety guardrails to the question vibe coding can’t answer.
Is developer experience dead?
The rise of agentic coding has arguably degraded developer experience. How can we ensure developers are productivity without being burned out?
How to stay technical as a software engineering manager
A practical guide to the four strategies engineering managers can use to maintain technical proficiency.
Chatting with an AI Won’t Make You a Top Programmer
When I was a kid, most people did not know how to type. We took typing class. The final exam was a speed test: words per minute. Today, you will not impress anyone by saying you can type. In fact, cursive writing is fading. Kids increasingly cannot read or write it. We type constantly. We … Conti...
Your JetBrains IDE Expertise, Now on LinkedIn
Connect your IDE to your LinkedIn profile and showcase your JetBrains IDE expertise based on real tool usage.
Announcing the Search for a DSF Executive Director
Posted by Jeff Triplett on June 17, 2026
Learning a new skill is tough. But as Jessica says, the only way to fail is to stop & not come back.
Learning a new skill is tough. But as Jessica says, the only way to fail is to stop & not come back. She discusses her bootcamp, that uses freeCodeCamp's curriculum, with Quincy on the podcast.
Here’s The Rub: We Don’t Believe You
Welcome, new leader. We're glad that you are here. Your arrival fills a critical vacancy in our team, and we can't wait to see what you can do at this company.
Revised rules of engineering leadership.
From early 2014 through late 2020, I was working in hypergrowth environments, which are challenging, but also educational. The most valuable feature of hypergrowth is that your mistakes reveal themselves next month rather than next year, because things go wrong very loudly when you’re moving fast...
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Leading by example, even through uncertainty
I’ve always believed in how rewarding it is to support people through their growth. Over time, though, I realized that same principle also applies to work: growing, trusting yourself and moving forward, even when you don’t have all the answers.
The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?
Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of four topics from The Pulse issue from two weeks ago. Full subscribers received...
The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE
Feedback about the redesigned IDE is overwhelmingly negative due to bugs, poor UX & model support, and eating through Gemini token quotas. Also: a clue that Antigravity’s own devs use other tools for their work?
What We Learned Hiring 33 Engineers in Two Weeks
Learn how we replaced the standard interview loop with a three-hour build session and made offers within 24 hours.
The Ask
Coffee in hand, I sit down in the Cave. Any Tuesday during the work week, a sip, and I parse the calendar. 1:1 — he's fine. Status meeting — listen. Staff me
The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again
Massive demand for the role at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The latest version of the FDE role looks like the consultant / solution architect role done by many early-junior engineers.
Google Cloud deletes Australian trading fund’s infra
A $124B fund in Australia would have lost all data stored with Google Cloud, had they not relied on a third-party backup. A rare blunder from GCP, where regional replication did not stop the deletion – and a just as rare statement from Google Cloud’s CEO taking the blame.
Barely Treading Water
Carolyn, my chief of staff, sat on the couch as I ran into my office. The Palo Alto building wasn't built for tech; it'd been adapted to support the use case ov
Gabriella Gonzalez: Type out the code
Freecoding improves broader programming proficiency
Introducing Kickstart: the app that helps indie developers ship
Get the all-in-one workspace for shipping successful apps.
The Pulse: Did capacity shortages turn Anthropic hostile to devs?
For the past few weeks, Anthropic has continually upset devs with its “dumber” model, and by removing Claude Code access from some paid accounts. After securing lots of compute from SpaceX, could the reason have been to conceal capacity issues?
TechPays has been acquired by Levels.fyi
tl;dr: TechPays is joining Levels.fyi: so the leading tech salary site in Europe gets the love and care it deserves. Thanks to Zsombor for building this project with me for so many years. Pay transparency has always been an issue in tech, especially in Europe. For a while, I assumed that the mos...
2026 Django Developers Survey
Posted by Django Software Foundation and JetBrains on May 12, 2026
DSF member of the month - Bhuvnesh Sharma
Posted by Sarah Abderemane on May 11, 2026
Diversity doesn’t just “happen”
Achieving gender equity in tech requires deliberate effort, not just good intentions. Learn how Thoughtworks designs for diversity at every stage through XConf.
The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?
GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted.
Learn What It Takes to Become a Cybersecurity Consultant
IEEE guide covers the skills and certifications needed
To those who build community
Meet some of the inspiring people who are making a difference in the Apple developer community through technical contributions, thoughtful mentorship, and a commitment to helping others succeed.
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?
In the past 2-3 months, spending on AI agents has exploded at many tech companies, Details from 15 of them, including the different ways they are coping with this realization.
The USB Situation
I write this from the latest MacBook Pro. I've been running this as my primary machine for almost a month. When I'm not grinding out the latest soon-to-be-relea
Sometimes Your Job is to Get in the Way
The Head of Product, Customer Service, and the CTO of Slack were sitting in the front row at an important conference. This was peak Slack; we were all the buzz,
Early and late-stage hypergrowth.
Last week, a colleague asked why I’d hired an additional new leader onto an important area rather than expanding an existing leader’s scope to incorporate that area as well. The existing leader was a known quantity and doing well, so why not keep expanding them? It’s a good question, and dependin...
The Pulse: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ as a weird new trend
At Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and other large companies, devs are purposefully burning tokens (and money!) to inflate their AI usage and hit AI usage metrics which they treat as targets.
Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q1 2026! 🎉
The PSF is pleased to announce its first batch of PSF Fellows for 2026 . Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q1 ! The following people c...
The Slide
They don't want to hear it. They don't. It is legit good feedback. It is substantive, and it is 100% true, but they do not want to hear it. How do you
Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks.
One of my gifts/curses is an endless fixation with how processes can be optimized. For a brief moment early in my career, that was focused on improving how humans collaborate, but that quickly switched to figuring out how we can minimize human involvement, and eliminate human-to-human handoffs as...
The Pulse: is GitHub still best for AI-native development?
Availability has dropped to one nine (~90% – !!), partly due to not being able to handle increased traffic from AI coding agents. There’s also no CEO and an apparent lack of direction.
Encoding Team Standards
When a team has worked together long enough, certain practices become invisible. The senior engineer who rejects a pull request does not consult a checklist; she recognizes, almost instantly, that the error handling is incomplete, that the abstraction is premature, that the naming doe...
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Rethinking leadership: How a sabbatical transformed a CIO into a coding intern [part one]
Discover how a sabbatical transformed a CIO into a coding intern, reshaping her approach to AI, leadership, and growth.
Rethinking leadership: How a sabbatical transformed a CIO into a coding intern [part two]
Discover how a sabbatical transformed a CIO into a coding intern, reshaping her approach to AI, leadership, and growth.
The agentic passive voice.
At some point, you will have learned about the passive voice, where the actor in a sentence is unclear. For example, my software didn’t compile. That’s a good example of the passive voice. However, you might not know the full set of rules, because here are some sentences in the passive voice that...
Is the FDE role becoming less desirable?
Job postings for Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) have surged, but many professionals don’t want the role because it’s more like solutions engineering than software development.
Meet the 2026 Vercel AI Accelerator Cohort
The Vercel AI Accelerator is back with 39 early-stage teams from around the world, $8M+ in partner credits, and a Demo Day in San Francisco on April 16.
Judgment and creativity are all you need.
When I joined Imprint a little less than a year ago, our deploys were manual, requiring close human attention to complete. Our database migrations were run manually, too. Developing good software is very possible in those circumstances, but it takes a remarkable attention to detail to do it. It w...
The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source
An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis
Preparing your team for the agentic software development life cycle
Understand how the shift toward an AI agent-based software development life cycle impacts organizational structures, people, governance and culture.
Typelevel Summer of Code 2026
Due to overwhelming participation in GSoC 2026, we are only able to consider proposals from applicants who complete our onboarding process by Monday, March 16th. If you missed this deadline, we appreciate your interest and hope you will apply next year!
Inside MongoDB Dublin: The Heart of Our International Growth
MongoDB’s Dublin office brings together people from around the world to solve some of the hardest problems in modern data. Learn more!
Developer role now available for Pro teams
Teams on the Pro plan can now assign the Developer role to their members for more granular access control.
Zero to Deploy: Launching Your Career at DigitalOcean
What’s it like to build at DigitalOcean? Ship real code, work on AI infrastructure, and gain true ownership. Hear from three early builders who joined full-time.
Reflections on the future of Software Engineering retreat
Thoughtworks CTO Rachel Laycock offers her perspective on the Future of Software Development Retreat held in Utah in February 2026.
Python is for Everyone: Inside the PSF's D&I Work Group
We are living in a moment where diversity and inclusion work is being actively undermined. From policy changes to corporate rollbacks, the ...
It's a renaissance woman's world
Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she's helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. Wait, moon vacuums?!
Swift Student Challenge submissions are now open
The Swift Student Challenge is here! Submissions are now open through February 28, and students from all over the world are invited to submit their app playgrounds.Learn more about the ChallengeKey things to know No prior experience is needed. The Challenge is open to students of all levels who m...
Refactoring internal documentation in Notion
In our latest developer productivity survey, our documentation was the area with the second most comments. This is a writeup of the concrete steps I took to see how much progress one person could make on improving the organization’s documentation while holding myself to a high standard for making...
The Vercel AI Accelerator is back with $6m in credits
A six-week program to help you scale your AI company offering over $6M in credits from Vercel, v0, AWS, and leading AI platforms
Introducing the EF Academic Secretariat 2026 PhD Fellowship
The EF's Academic Secretariat team is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural PhD Fellowship Program, a pioneering initiative aimed at empowering and...
Clawdbot triggers a run on Mac Minis
Clawdbot drives Mac Mini sales, Swizec Teller on the future of software engineering being SRE, Daniel Stenberg decided to end curl's bug bounty program, zerobrew takes some of the best ideas from uv and applies them to Homebrew, and Phil Eaton on LLMs and your career.
Skills v1.1.1: Interactive discovery, open source release, and agent support
Skills v1.1.1 introduces interactive skill discovery with npx skills find, full open source release on GitHub, and enhanced support for 27 coding agents with automated workflows.
Should you include engineers in your leadership meetings?
While Staff Engineer was first and foremost an attempt to pull the industry towards my perspective on staff-plus engineering roles, writing it also changed my opinions in a number of ways. Foremost, it solidified my belief that the industry too often treats engineers like children to be managed,...
Writing Visualizations with Remotion
Remotion is having a bit of a moment at the moment, and I decided to play around with the Claude Code integration. Here are a couple videos I was able to make in <10 minutes summarizring data on my blog. First, here is published posts over time. I had Claude write some scripts to generate this da...
Curiosity is the first-step in problem solving.
Despite my best efforts, I have been wrong a lot over the years. I’ve been wrong about technology patterns (in 2014, I thought microservices would take over the world), I’ve been wrong about management techniques (I used to think systems thinking was the ultimate technique, but I’ve seen so many...
Departing the Python Software Foundation (Staff)
This week will be my last as the Director of Infrastructure at the Python Software Foundation and my last week as a staff member. Supporting...
Nick Bogaty joins Vercel as Chief Revenue Officer
Nick Bogaty joins Vercel as first Chief Revenue Officer from Adobe, bringing more than 20 years of enterprise GTM experience to lead an AI-forward sales organization.
What I Got Wrong About “Hard Work” in My 20s
When I was younger, in my 20s, I assumed that everyone was working "hard," meaning a solid 35 hours of work a week. Especially, say, university professors and professional engineers. I'd feel terribly guilty when I would be messing around, playing video games on a workday. Today I realize that mo...
From GitLab to Kilo Code
We're joined by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO. In late 2022, Sid discovered that he had bone cancer. That started a journey he's been on ever since... a journey that he shares with us in great detail. Along the way, Sid continued found...
Unstoppable Velocity: Why 2026 is the Year to Join DigitalOcean
As we kick off 2026, we’re fortifying our teams with people who have deep expertise, a passion for customers, and the hunger to gain hands-on experience with AI and work that is defining history.
Freedom from incompetence
Many people say that they crave more freedom. But what do we mean by “freedom”? Being free from constraints? Is that what we mean? Would you feel “freer” if you could walk outside in your underwear? It is almost surely not what you mean by “freedom.” I submit to you that it is almost always … Con...
Agents in the database
Ajay Kulkarni from Tiger Data (Co-founder/CEO) is on the pod this week with Adam. He asked him to get vulnerable and trace his path to becoming a CEO. They dig into the themes that have shaped his career, and explore how founder values end up forming company culture (whether you intend them to or...
From User to Trusted Advisor: How Jeff Fan Powers Customer Success at DigitalOcean
Explore how Jeff Fan partners with DigitalOcean’s customers to bridge today’s challenges with tomorrow’s opportunities.
What actually makes you senior
Matheus Lima on what makes senior developers actually senior, Tega Brain created a browser extension for avoiding AI slop, Andrew Kelley moves Zig from GitHub to Codeberg, Matias Heikkilä says there's no free lunch for vibe coding, and your SSD data at rest might be at risk.
Hacktoberfest 2025 Comes to a Close
A look back at Hacktoberfest 2025, including participation stats, key changes to the program, and what we learned from this year's event.
DO repeat yourself!
Prolific software blogger, Sean Goedecke, joins us to discuss why he believes software engineers need to be involved in the politics of their organization, how to avoid worry driven development, what is "good taste" in software engineering, where agentic coding will take our industry, why getting...
This new AI role is exploding
A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won't tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes deeper on his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher says to stop vi...
Leading the Cloud With Curiosity : Spotlight on Pranav Nambiar, SVP, AI/ML & PaaS
Discover how Pranav Nambiar is driving innovation in AI/ML and PaaS at DigitalOcean and why he believes DigitalOcean is the place to build meaningful impact.
David Totten Joins Vercel to Lead Global Field Engineering
David Totten joins Vercel as VP of Global Field Engineering from Databricks to oversee Sales Engineering, Developer Success, Professional Services, and Customer Support Engineering under one integrated organization
Talha Tariq joins Vercel as CTO of Security
Talha Tariq joins Vercel as CTO of Security, bringing expertise from HashiCorp and IBM to lead security innovation in the AI era.
Announcing the 2026 EF Internship
The Ethereum Foundation has opened applications for the 2026 Internship Program: a paid, full-time opportunity to work directly with teams advancing the...
Is DigitalOcean Your Next Career Spot? A 5-Year Insider on Why It Should Be
Akanksha Kapoor shares her five-year journey of growth, collaboration, culture, and why DigitalOcean could be your next career spot.
Supabase Series E
Raised funding from Accel, Peak XV, Figma, and existing investors.
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