Get your work recognized: write a brag document
jvns.caJulia Evans argues that keeping a running brag document of your accomplishments is what actually gets your work recognized, since managers and reviewers won’t reliably remember it on their own.
№2 — What Scales
2026-08-20
leading without losing the thread
Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.
lethain.comWill Larson argues that migrations are the only intervention that scales with a growing codebase and business, because most other tools and processes support only about one order of magnitude of growth before they stop working.
most tools and processes only support about one order magnitude of growth before becoming ineffective
ai interfaces
Two LLM UI Patterns That Aren’t Chat
poyo.coThe author argues that chat works fine as a default LLM interface for simple exchanges but breaks down for agentic harnesses, which need UI patterns built around something other than a single linear conversation.
closing thought
My First Program - I am BARRY HESS
bjhess.comBarry Hess recounts how a computer sent by his aunt and uncle in the early 1980s pulled him into writing his first program and set him on the path to a programming career.