Career advice in 2025.
lethain.comYesterday, the tj-actions repository, a popular tool used with Github Actions was compromised (for more background read one of these two articles). Watching the infrastructure and security engineering teams at Carta respond, it highlighted to me just how much LLMs can’t meaningfully replace many essential roles of software professionals. However, I’m also reading Jennifer Palkha’s Recoding America, which makes an important point: decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. (Or, in this context, remain employed.)
Friday Links 25-04
Modern building with glass front Have a listen to Greg Korah-Hartman about the kernel development process. Some good and uplifting topics in urbanism this week too. Leadership The Product Engineer - I agree with some of it. Every engineer should be a product engineer, but I still think there is a place for product managers. Who gets to do strategy? - everybody. Ok. So, You’re Failing - how to receive performance feedback, and probably also how to give it.
How to get hired at a startup
Software engineer.