First attempt will be 95% garbage: A staff engineer's 6-week journey with Claude Code

Vincent argues that first attempts with genAI are 95% garbage, second attempts 50% garbage, third attempts finally workable. This isn't failure but the actual process of using AI effectively in production workflows. His Claude Code usage costs a significant percentage of salary but amounts to 2-3x faster feature shipping making it worth it.

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How to Make a Big Impact with a Small Team: Design Ops at Slack

Slack's Design Ops team proves small teams can drive massive impact through ruthless prioritization and strategic alignment. By focusing on fewer, more impactful efforts and maintaining regular check-ins with senior leadership, they ensure every initiative scales beyond individual teams. Their secret: constantly asking if work aligns with company goals and impacts the maximum number of designers.

By Tina Wang, Sheila Kazan, MJ Livingstone →

Behind the Scenes of Bun Install

Bun install runs ~7× faster than npm by treating package installation as systems programming, not JavaScript. Direct system calls, binary manifest caching, and OS-native file copying eliminate JavaScript overhead.

By Lydia Hallie →

Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering

Technical proposals often fail not on merit but on social strategy. The "Big Reveal" anti-pattern puts stakeholders on the defensive, leading to resistance and dead-on-arrival ideas. Pre-alignment through one-on-one conversations prevents ambushing colleagues with surprise announcements.

By Matthew Hodgkins →

Bytebot 

Bytebot is an open-source AI desktop agent that operates within a containerized Linux environment, using computer vision and input control to complete multi-step tasks across applications through natural language commands.

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Pico CSS

Pico CSS is a minimalist CSS framework that styles semantic HTML elements directly, providing responsive design and theming without requiring utility classes or JavaScript dependencies.

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term.everything

term.everything is a Wayland compositor that renders GUI applications directly in terminal windows, allowing you to run any graphical program within your terminal interface, including over SSH connections.

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