Software

I haven't written code since January. What I build now is the machine that writes it, and I have some bad news about how long that job lasts.

Chrome is fast, secure and compatible. It’s also built by an advertising company. I tried the alternatives and ended up with Zen and Brave. Rooting for Ladybird!

314 MEPs voted to kill Chat Control. 276 backed it. It survives until 2028 anyway, because in EU procedure, absence can outweigh votes cast.

AI agents forget the plot between sessions. AI Task Manager gives them a local workflow built from markdown tickets, folders, and a lightweight kanban board, so project context survives different agents and sessions.

The industry decided that simple infrastructure is for beginners and distributed complexity is for serious engineers. I disagree.

You know what? I miss when tech was quiet. Not "boring". Just quiet. You’d sit down, open your IDE, maybe browse a few blogs or forums, tinker with some open-source repo. It felt like a craft: like carving wood, or doing art, in a way. Now?

We were deep into building a new microservice — one of those projects where the requirements were abstract, shifting, and open to interpretation. You know how it goes: "It's just a simple microservice, basically it should just save X and communicate Y back". Yeah, right... At first,

So, you finally made it to Senior Developer? Nice. 🎉 Now, let’s talk about what that actually means – because it’s not just about writing more code all day.

In tech, it’s easy to confuse complexity with progress. Adding layers, abstractions, or extra features can feel like you’re being productive—sometimes even impressive—like you're building something substantial. We’ve all seen codebases and systems that seem to wear their complexity as a badge of