Backed by layoffs.fyi data: The 7 roles exploding while others vanish Over 126,000 tech jobs didn’t quietly “transition” in 2025. They were cut. Hard. Whole teams erased between calendar invites. Senior engineers refreshing LinkedIn like it’s a slot machine. Recruiters ghosting people they begged to hire

This is what everyone says is a dead giveaway for spotting ChatGPT generated content I’ve been able to spot AI generated content for over a decade. And now that ChatGPT has been so widespread for so long, almost everyone else can spot it too. Especially if it contains a

Reading more books is one of the best investments you can make in your life. Every book you read increases your knowledge and motivation and, contrary to popular opinion, makes it more likely you’ll take action (not less). Last year, I read 105 books. I have some advantages that

Now he’s going to Meta, Stephen Lemay is taking over, and Apple employees are publicly celebrating. Here’s the full story. Read here if you’re not a member, or subscribe to my newsletter to get my early updates. However, Friend links will stop being shared when January 1st,

A 50 year old data structure just got outpaced by a radical design, but the truth I found in the benchmarks surprised me more than the hype. The cursor blinked on a terminal window at 11 PM. Two identical queries sat in the editor, one against a B-tree index, the

A single whiteboard question revealed the gap between knowing patterns and actually designing systems that scale. The marker was in my hand. The problem seemed straightforward enough: design a URL shortener. I’d done this before, or at least I thought I had. Hash the URL, store it in a

By Jacob Meyers and Rob Zienert Temporal is a Durable Execution platform which allows you to write code “as if failures don’t exist”. It’s become increasingly critical to Netflix since its initial adoption in 2021, with users ranging from the operators of our Open Connect global CDN to