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How could Soham Parekh have improved his overemployment scheme?
Soham Parekh worked four tech jobs simultaneously but typically got caught at each company. Thought experiment: what would it take to get away with it?
Jul 7
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Jacob Voytko
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Meta’s OpenAI raid reminds me of the self-driving arms race
We’ve seen what happens when tech giants fight over researchers. Hint: it didn’t end quietly.
Jul 3
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Jacob Voytko
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June 2025
/r/golang draws a line on AI-generated projects
New rules aim to stop the subreddit from becoming a dumping ground for effortless LLM-generated tools.
Jun 30
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Jacob Voytko
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There’s a lot missing from the Google Cloud outage incident report
Google’s incident report points to a null pointer bug, but many possible contributing factors like executive pressure remain unmentioned.
Jun 16
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Jacob Voytko
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A staff engineer's advice to high schoolers who want to work in tech
Are you a high school student interested in working in tech? Here's my advice as someone who has worked at everything from FAANG to research labs, and…
Jun 13
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Jacob Voytko
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Go won't make error handling easier. Cursor says "just press tab"
Go closes the door on error syntax proposals, citing lack of consensus. Behind the scenes, LLMs quietly fill the gap.
Jun 9
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Jacob Voytko
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What ESLint learned from their 9.0 release
A year after releasing several breaking changes into a single release, ESLint published a retrospective on the process. Their document has good…
Jun 3
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Jacob Voytko
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May 2025
You have the time to run a technical newsletter
A dad's playbook for running a newsletter when you have very little free time.
May 29
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Jacob Voytko
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My "30-minute rule" for LLM coding agents
This one is simple: LLM agents should save me 30 minutes over the next-best alternative while they still need well-specified problems and need my focus…
May 27
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Jacob Voytko
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With a 3% workforce cut, Microsoft shows nobody is safe
Microsoft's cuts included high-performing engineers across the company. I go over the management dynamics that lead to great engineers being terminated.
May 19
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Jacob Voytko
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Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
In 2011, Larry Page became CEO of Google and tried to fix meetings. But his new policies were no match for Google Calendar pedants.
May 15
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Jacob Voytko
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Ubuntu Is Betting Big on sudo's Rust rewrite
Canonical is rolling out sudo-rs by default in Ubuntu 25.10, embracing Rust’s safety while shedding some of sudo’s legacy baggage
May 12
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Jacob Voytko
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