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Explore past engineering and leadership ideas, summaries and key takeaways.
- Stop measuring developer productivity
- The Shift to cgroup v2 in Kubernetes: What You Need to Know
- See the agents, set the terms: new visibility and control for personal agents
- 100x more programmers
- Agents aren’t humans (but they kinda are)
- The Same Side of the Table
- Why I joined OpenAI
- Agent Harness: Definition and Role in AI Systems
- How software engineering is changing: a tale of two eras
- Launching the Vite Ecosystem Fund
- How we made it easier for millions of users to sign into government services
- Book the Meeting Before You Need It
- Grok Bot has a Tailscale integration—and now you can, too
- The Pulse: Anthropic kills the coding interview
- How to run a DR readiness engagement
- Closing the context gap is what banking AI needs
- Pinterest and Intel Take Open-Source Profiling to Internet Scale
- Why Spotify Is Not In Favor of Bayesian A/B Testing
- Managing Context in Long-Run Agentic Applications
- The oldest architecture in computing
- Modernizing Discord's Video Playback Infrastructure
- Personalization without user identity | Airbnb Engineering & Data Science
- Parts, Tools, and Library Design in Playbook
- The Second Wave of the API-first Economy
- Jane Street is updating its software engineering interviews to include LLMs and higher-level design
- Long-horizon agents and durable execution
- Livelymerge and Effective Expressiveness
- LLM Voice and the Human Element in Writing
- Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag
- OTel Unplugged EU at FOSDEM 2027
- Rands Fall Housecleaning
- CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026
- Viettel joins CNCF as a Gold Member
- AI-Moderated Interviews: If, When, and How to Use Them
- CNCF Welcomes 21 New Silver Members
- F5 Elevates to Gold Membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- Build a personal organization command center with GitHub Copilot CLI
- Building an emoji list generator with the GitHub Copilot CLI
- Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI
- Adapting to the alternative investment wave in the Middle East
- CNCF Welcomes New Silver Members as Enterprises Scale AI From Training to Inference
- You Can't "Vibe Code" Love
- How TUI Scales Threat Modeling for 100+ Teams with Amazon Bedrock
- CNCF Releases 2026 Observability Summit North America Schedule
- CNCF and SlashData Report Confirms India as One of the Largest Cloud Native Communities with 2.25 Million Developers
- Broadcom Becomes CNCF Platinum Member to Advance AI-Ready Cloud Native Infrastructure
- CNCF Announces Schedule for Debut Observability Summit Europe
- The Human Value of Technical Communities
- JetStream 3: A modern benchmark for high-performance, compute-intensive Web applications
- Automating Dependabot Pull Request Triage with GitHub Copilot