What's going on? 2026-01-02
Happy New Year, I guess?
New Years, new goals, new ideas... new fears, another year older. I'm still a believer in consistent change. Show up regularly, do your best, and you're going to see a difference. Personally, I'm gearing up for an intense quarter, and I'm feeling great about things.
The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere - We’re pushed with constant updates to software, new phones, and another AI capability every other day it seems. It can become overwhelming. There’s some different technologies that may still be here at the end of our careers, so it makes you wonder what would be the best long term area to spend your training time.
The Death of the Code Monkey: Why I Fear for the Class of 2026 - Great article about how capable AI is today in an engineering perspective, and what the role of the junior engineer will need to evolve to. I love his idea of doing things by hand just to learn, and identify what is AI Slop. The problem is, you’ll have to do it on your own time.
Give me 15 Minutes. I’ll Teach You 80% of Obsidian - Nick Milo is strong in Obsidian, and as I re-train myself on Obsidian, I find myself going to him quite a bit for help. Obsidian is a knowledge management app that uses markdown to build your own private knowledge base. What it means is instead of having to use notepad for your todo lists, you can now have a tool that helps organize it and find your ideas.
Tech Lead Journal - Your Code as a Crime Scene: The Psychology Behind Software Quality - Adam Tornhill - I’m half way through this episode, and I love it. Tornhill talks about how there’s no way to identify “good code”, only identifiers for bad practices. He goes into how many code health metrics are “vanity metrics” which made me laugh because I cannot find a better term. Odds are I’m going to write a full article on this one.
