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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2025 Exceptional Employer Mira Award
SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Tech Employer, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named Exceptional Employer by TechPoint at the 26th annual Mira Awards. This award recognizes companies that are developing talent through skills-based hiring…
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Vibe coding absolutely nails the values of Agile, and quietly violates the mechanisms that make Agile work. Vibe coding might be the purest form of Agile we’ve ever seen. No standups, no tickets, no backlog grooming, just chaos and bliss. It nails the Agile values: working software, responding to change, and individuals over process. The […]
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Why Vibe Coding Fails – and How Signal Coding Fixes It
AI is an amplifier for whatever signal we humans provide. Garbage in, garbage out. Signal in, software out. – Robert Herbig, in the thing you’re currently reading If you haven’t heard of vibe coding, it’s an interesting concept: you prompt an AI agent to do all the coding and focus on fast iterations. Minimize time […]
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Terraform: Creatine for Your AI-Assistant
I love software engineering because it lets me create new things every single day. As a programmer, I get to conjure novel solutions to problems I’ve never encountered before – manipulating chaos is my jam. For months, I stubbornly resisted tools like Cursor, Cline and Windsurf. Why? Because I’m passionate about programming and worried these […]
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Dodging Merge Conflicts in git
This article was originally posted on my personal blog under the same title, “Dodging Merge Conflicts in git.” Introduction Of all the source control management systems that have ever been created, git is certainly one of them. You’ve probably used it, and been burned by a particularly complicated merge conflict. Resolving merge conflicts can be […]
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(Mostly) Useless Lessons From Doing Math With TypeScript Types
You can interact with the source code for this article using the TypeScript playground. Throughout my experience using TypeScript, I have constantly been finding new features in the type system that I had no idea existed. At some point, I discovered that the type system was turing complete! (If we ignore the infinite memory requirement) […]
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NeurIPS 2024 Developer Tools You Can Deploy & Use Today!
I learned about these open source and commercially licensed tools for developers at NeurIPS 2024. Most of the tools on this list are new to me, but not new to the world. You can deploy and use them today! …pssst – if your manager or your client would rather you make something from scratch instead […]
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Forwarding USB connections through Hyper-V — or anywhere on your network!
My development workflow revolves around virtual machines: I have dev VMs for multiple concurrently-running projects. Some are Windows, some are Linux. My hypervisor of choice used to be VirtualBox, but with the introduction of VBS, VirtualBox has become extremely slow because it’s forced to function under Hyper-V. So I switched to just using Hyper-V by […]
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Your personal programming project misses you. How to make more time.
Personal programming projects are a great way to explore new topics. They can allow you a scaffold for exploring new technologies or techniques. They can use a personal interest as a motivator to overcome the trials of learning. But they compete for your limited time with your responsibilities, friends, and family. Sitting down for a […]
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Curious About Code? Get to Know TypeScript vs. JavaScript in Node.js.
You may have heard of JavaScript, Node.js, and TypeScript. You may even know that they are programming languages used in modern software development. But, alas, you may be a non-technical person who doesn’t understand TypeScript vs. JavaScript, how they are related, and how they are different. In this post, I will explain the three technologies. […]
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