You’re still working, even after AI “automated” parts of your job. You’re still accountable for what you deliver using these tools. The only difference is that you might be using less brainpower now which, I believe, is a bad thing overall, especially when you have no idea what you can do with that “extra” freedom.

Our hunt to algorithmize (is that a word?) all the wrong things has ruined software engineering as it exists today. A few years back I used to look at code I wrote as replaceable, and saw it as a commodity (from what I read and understood from practitioners around me), I no longer see it that way. I think the human aspect of software engineering will be more crucial than ever now (if it wasn’t already).

I have been part of the r/developersIndia community team since its inception in Jan 2020. A lot has happened since we started this initiative, this post is my personal collection of some learnings as someone behind the scenes along with my failures, community’s successes & some tips for folks thinking to build a community of their own or well for folks who are just interested in what went behind the scenes.

I am writing this letter as a summary of my work style and expectations as a remote software engineer. Consider this post as a source of truth to the way I think about work, how I communicate, and other team culture related thoughts.

I interact with Dockerfiles every day at work, have written a few myself, built containers, and all that. But never published one on the docker hub registry. I wanted to make ugit - a tool to undo git commands (written as a shell script) available to folks who don’t like installing random shell scripts from the internet.

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Calling out someone is fine, just try to do it in a way that resonates with collaboration more than hate or directly attacking someone or something. We all have a limited time on this planet, let’s not spend it hating each other. Spread +ve vibes everywhere 🙌🏽

So I have been interviewing for a while for my next role in tech. I have given all type of interviews by now. Take home assignments, DSA, solution write-ups you name it. I am fine with all kinds of interviews, honestly at this moment I don’t even care about what style of interviews are good or bad.

Vale is a syntax-aware prose linter built for all you writers out there. With more than 100 releases so far vale is 5 year old project and is used by writing folks in companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM, RedHat to name a few. I have recently started to use vale in my everyday writing workflow and it has a significant impact on what words I choose to convey ideas. I mostly use neovim for writing, so we will be covering how to setup vale and use it with neovim.