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I was so disappointed when I first heard the adage "ideas are a dime a dozen." I had plenty of ideas. The hard part, I learned, was actually building...

Simon gives some solid, and surprising, advice for technical bloggers: My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publ...

Fix Your robots.txt or Your Site Disappears from Google Google now requires a robots.txt file or your site won't get indexed. ...

What Is Attention Residue? The Hidden Focus Killer That’s Sabotaging Your Productivity Attention residue is when human attention remains "stuck" o...

How to Read One Book Per Week There are some great tips for reading more in this post. My favorites are: Always have a book. Keep a book in ev...

Is it worth writing about? Some topics I think are always worth writing about and sharing: Your process, failures and successes, to figuring ...

I care about different things now that I have grown into a lead engineer. There are some things that I have started to care more about, and some thin...

Simon Willison's response to Don't fall into the anti-AI hype I'm glad someone was brave enough to say this. There is a lot of anti-AI sentiment ...

Lots of good advice about blogging in this post, like writing with a time limit: Setting time limits. I started... with the idea of using 60min e...

Instead of saying "AI writing is slop," we should explain how to make it better. What you may see as "AI slop" might be legitimate, but poor writing....