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A merge workflow for activating multiple branches simultaneously using Jujutsu, an alternative VCS to Git.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Mars Inc’s history and business strategy. M&Ms, Milky Way, Snickers, and even a little bit of pet food.

The disruption caused by the Internet in industry after industry has a common theoretical basis described by Aggregation Theory.

We asked 12 CTOs and CEOs what skill they now prioritize when hiring developers because of AI. Their answers validate what experienced developers suspected all along.

When agile experimentation at startups becomes a p-hacking trap

As we approach the 10 year anniversary of the 1.0 release of Kubernetes, let's take stock of the successes and failures of the project in the wild. Also what would be on a wish list for a Kubernetes 2.0 release.

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Also: Shopify celebrates engineers who spend the most AI tokens, too much AI usage could lead to cognitive decline, and more.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of LVMH’s company history and business strategy.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of TSMC’s history and business strategy.

Cursor has grown 100x in load in just a year, sees 1M+ QPS for its data layer, and serves billions of code completions, daily. A deepdive into how it’s built with cofounder, Sualeh Asif

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My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

At the PGConf.dev 2025 Global Developer Conference, Bohan Zhang from OpenAI shared OpenAI’s best practices with PostgreSQL, offering a glimpse into the database usage of one of the most prominen

Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years. I’ve learned so much working there, and I wanted to end my chapter there by collecting my thoughts on what I learned. (I am heading somewhere, and will share news in a week or two after firming up the communication plan with my new team there.) The most important things I learned at Carta were:

Stock options, RSUs, taxes — read the latest edition: www.holloway.com/ec - jlevy/og-equity-compensation

We might be seeing the end of remote interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person interviews, trial weeks and longer trial periods. Could hiring be returning to pre-pandemic norms?

Interview processes are changing in a tech market that’s both cooling AND heating up at the same time. A deepdive with Hello Interview founders, Evan King and Stefan Mai

Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

How to figure out what the user experience should be when you don’t have time, budget, or a design team.

Traffic trends from WebMD, Quora, Stack Overflow, Chegg, G2, CNET, Reddit, Wikipedia, and Substack!

Software development topics I've changed my mind on over the course of a decade