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        <description><![CDATA[ Carving clean lines of code. Riding down a narrow path in the tech industry—or am I climbing? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:18:10 +0000</pubDate>

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                <title>Rise of the half-dev</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[This article from about six month ago hurted my feelings a bit more than I cared to admit. Mind you, I am a bootcamper and despite having no illusions on the failure rate of those, I still owed it a good part of my career switch. So hearing it was dead was a bit painful, but I couldn&#039;t disagree either. Myself trained in scientific computing and a good load of science and engineering, I also knew times would be harder for other who didn&#039;t fancy digging into the more math and engineering part of c...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Slowly drowning in slop</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[At my day job, I&#039;ve reach a state of our codebase and issue tracking that I can come on Monday, asked my agents /brun-backlog and will do a dozen merge request in the morning. Most of it is the code I would have wanted, if not better and with a few added skills and I can cut the verbosity and too much code. So I&#039;ve been like, Hmm, maybe it&#039;s time to vibe a side project after all?. My goal was like to let the AI do stuff I know well how to do and dig more into new stuff, namely atproto and SolidJ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Parallels: from simulations to LLM coding</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve been tinkering with making website since I had an internet connexion, but I switched to full-time dev only recently. Before that I was more on track to do computations in civil, thermal and energy engineering. I was studying and doing research in the early 2000&#039;s, exactly when computer simulations were booming. Computations that used to take weeks were done in seconds, precision scale exploded. For engineers it felt like software was eating their craft and that juniors would never learn the...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Parallels: being the coolest surfer</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[My timeline has something a bit nostalgic, to say the least. Old-timers rave about the days of reading niche blogs, finding strange communities, surfing from obscure link to obscure link until you stumble upon a gem. This has sadly recently peaked with &#039;s post, but the feeling was there everywhere. It seems like the core, the underground, is gone. Is it AI? Is it social media? Is it the world going mad? Dunno. What I do know, though, is that it strangely reminds me of a vibe I’ve gone through a ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>The one question that made me turn down a job offer</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Last month, I went through a full interview process for a tech lead role. It went well — I liked the team and product, and they seemed to like me — until the very last minute in the CTO interview. One question completely threw me off balance: I was so unsettled that the rest of the interview was an absolute mess. I more or less dodged questions. Something in me just didn’t want to answer that question. It felt wrong. The whole process was most likely screwed at that point anyway, but that interv...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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