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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.
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Jacob Voytko
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…
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Jacob Voytko
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.
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Jacob Voytko
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…
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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.
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Jacob Voytko
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…
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Jacob Voytko
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.
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Jacob Voytko
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.
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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
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Jacob Voytko
How did Spotify ship that iOS payment app update so fast?
A judge ruled that Apple violated her previous order. The next day, Spotify shipped an update linking to their external purchase flow, among other…
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Jacob Voytko

April 2025

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