Category: Tech

  • Recommended: The AI Story is a Smoke Screen

    While large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or generative models like Midjourney’s and the likes, are somewhat interesting to me from a technological standpoint, the hype around both the models and their application, which this time around even reached outside the tech bubble, is just incredibly boring. People just can’t help themselves when a shiny…

  • Recommended: The Creation And Usage of Games For Solving Complex Problems

    I am biased not only because the author has an immense influence on my product thinking, she is also my life partner. I still think you should read this article on creating and using ad-hoc games for solving the complex problems we encounter while working on software and creating products. Being a product engineer, I…

  • A Local Development Setup for BookWyrm Federation

    BookWyrm speaks ActivityPub, but testing its federation capabilities locally can be tricky. Besides running two separate instances, there are a few caveats that complicate things further, namely that both instances need to run on their separate domain and they need to have an SSL certificate signed by a common certificate authority. Satisfying these caveats without…

  • Working with Product, not Working for Product

    John Cutler once again succinctly puts words on a general feeling that I’ve had on the state of the tech industry. In one of his latest weekly articles on The Beautiful Mess, he talks about three different team models for building tech products: For most of my career, I have worked on teams with one…

  • On Layoffs and Their Inhumanity

    This interview with Jeffrey Pfeffer, Standford Professor of Business, got me thinking, again, about the wave of tech layoffs throughout 2022. For which there is not even a sign of it slowing down as of the first weeks of 2023. I went through two separate layoffs in 2022. The first was early in the year,…