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Agentic development has fundamentally changed the software ecosystem. Modern coding agents are trained and prompted to seek out tools that will help with their assigned coding tasks. They will install those tools into their user's environment, with little

How do we model a political system? A ridiculously simplistic but often useful way to model a living body is as a three-part system. The body has inputs, a control mechanism, and outputs. The hand in the fire gets too hot, the nervous system goes "yowch!"

In the early days of Python's life, when it was newly hatched, one of the primary selling points was Python's ability to fit into a systems programming stack, to interface fairly-cleanly with C-based programming. Even today, if you throw a brick at https:

This post is a rough recreation of a post from someone else that I saw years ago and now can't find. If this rings a bell and you know the original, email phildini at phildini dot net. As a manager talking to your reports, you are always carrying a cannon

I first read Guy Kawasaki's "The Art of the Start" when I was in college, and didn't really know if startups were going to be my whole career, or if I was going to ever start one. As I look towards going further and further down that path, I revisited the

I've never met a manager who loves "perf review season", and the way most companies run their perfomance reviews it's pretty easy to understand why. As a company scales, there seems to be an irresistible urge to make performance reviews more and more comp

It is very hard for the average resident of a U.S. city to know what's going on with their civic government. It's even harder for them to get any sort of historical context on why things are the way they are. Let's take my hometown, the City of Alameda. S

The Athleticism So, it turns out golf is a sport. By which I mean, its a real sport, a competitive physical activity that taxes the body and mind. I'm writing this on a Wednesday, three days after my first golf outing as an adult, and my back and forearms

Note: The State of California calls it's ballot initiatives "Propositions". Alameda County lists them as "Measures". I'm speaking to Alameda County here, so they're listed as Measures. Summary President: Biden/Harris 13th Congressional: Barbara Lee 9th St

This post owes its inspiration, as so many posts do, to a tweet from patio11. I have tremendous respect for Patrick, and enjoy every conversation I have with him, but in one particular case I think he's wrong, and he's wrong in a subtle way that took me a