Articles from TnL
I have an account on hundreds of sites. Most of them use my email as my identifier. Do they own my identity online? Does Google own it? Facebook? The government?
AI coding assistants have lots of people discussing lots of perspectives on a lot of topics. I think that's great, even when many of them are a waste of time, because we have to figure out which topics are a waste of time. I posit that the topic of AI Code Quality doesn't matter. It's easy to see where code quality does and doesn't matter, and an AI tool being involved doesn't change anything.
Manual labor and "Knowledge Work" get a lot of attention as skilled work, either as artisans or as professionals. I'm here to say that's stupid. Social skills are the only skills that matter. I'm not talking about salepeople skills, though those are related. I'm saying that if you can't work well with others, you have a deficiency that makes you a literal tool, and without a hand to wield you, you are as useless as the stones in the ground.
The battlecry of burnout "experts" is don't be overworked, set boundaries, etc. What a stupid suggestion. Nothing could be further from the truth, and indeed your happiness is at stake if you listen to this naive drivel. While burnout is real, we need to talk about the realities of how it works and the actual options to deal with it.
Bazel is the by far the most complete and popular monorepo build tool we have. It also is utter garbage and needs to be replaced.