N=1 (marcua’s blog)

Hold on to your data by keeping it in your own database

An AI agent revolution is afoot: How can the next generation of software engineers thrive?

Software engineering after agents write the code

Finding the radio stream that hosed our servers

I'm excited to share Review, a bookmarklet that makes it easier for you to code review AI coding agents. The bookmarklet turns all unresolved comments on a GitHub pull request into a Markdown-formatted text blob that you can paste into your coding agent o

A decent amount of digital ink has been spilled about the future of software engineering in light of increasingly powerful coding agents. Will software engineers, especially junior ones, be able to find jobs in the future as coding agents become more powe

This week a fellow B12er was performing an ad-hoc data analysis. They had a spreadsheet with some data, and wanted to classify the rows in the spreadsheet by a few different criteria along which they would look for trends. For an engineer, this would have

Relational databases are in their sixth decade, and the database community is understandably celebrating and reflecting on its accomplishments. In two wonderful pieces, Donald Chamberlin shared his perspective on the past half-century, and Eugene Wu share

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