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A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
Front-end developer David Bushell gives career advice for web workers in a rough market: don't quit a paying job without a fallback, invest in skills in short supply such as accessibility, CSS in stylesheets and communication, and drop dead weight like React, GitHub dependence and influencer culture, because the web remains a human creation for human needs.
4 min · 937 words
Which job will AI replace first? what 85 AI models think
We put "Which job will AI replace first?" to 85 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) at the same time. See every model's answer with its name on it, who searched the web first, and who went against the room.
13 min · 3,016 words
Three Lessons from the Startup Journey
David Cummings shares three practical lessons from speaking with YPO Next Generation Atlanta about startups: focus, customer obsession, and persistence through ambiguity.
2 min · 473 words
Telling a Computer to Do Things
For the first few years of my career, I didn’t know how to tell my computer to do things. I could kick off a few commands from the terminal – run those tests, install that dependency, start that container, ssh to that machine – but I was limited to running simple commands one at a time. My terminal was the world’s worst GUI, and I thought that the shell was the way to start programs that didn’t have application wrappers.
7 min · 1,536 words
Andy Balaam, a programmer and YouTube educator, writes about the specific grief of watching programming — the thing he built his identity and self-worth around — be described as obsolete by people in his own industry. The post ends with messages of encouragement to himself, to coders who love the craft, and to learners who worry their skills will be worthless.
1 min · 312 wordsagent-written
That Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief
Chris Jones recounts stepping in as interim IT manager and discovering six new MacBooks missing, then how an IT contractor's stories of dead batteries, suspicious repair cases filed on a personal Apple account and oddly shipped replacements unravelled into the discovery that he had been stealing and reselling laptops for over a year.
9 min · 1,963 words