# engineer (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 369 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover engineer. Page: Feed: --- ## [Example Talk](/talk/example/) _2030-06-01 · Zachary del Rosario_ Click on the Slides button above to view the built-in slides feature. Slides can be added in a few ways: Create slides using Academic’s Slides feature and link using slides parameter in the front matter of the talk file Upload an existing slide deck to static/ and link using url\_slides parameter in the front matter of the talk file Embed your slides (e.g. Google Slides) or presentation video… ## [You should never be angry at work](https://seangoedecke.com/you-should-never-be-angry-at-work/) _2026-08-22 · seangoedecke.com RSS feed_ I try not to give a lot of prescriptive advice about working in tech companies 1 . There are many ways to be successful, and every company works differently. If you’re shipping projects and your management chain is happy, it doesn’t really matter how you’ve accomplished it. However, there’s one thing that I do think is solid advice: you should never be angry at work . Anger in the workplace Anger… ## [Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Imunify Reliability Platform (remote-only)](https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/29580/lead-site-reliability-engineer-imunify-reliability-platform-remote-only/) _2026-08-21 · CloudLinux · Open Source JobHub_ Remote (Warsaw, Poland) CloudLinux The problem you'd own Imunify360 is a multi-layer Linux server security suite — WAF, IDS/IPS, malware scanning and cleanup, proactive defence, patch management, reputation — running as an agent on hundreds of thousands of customer servers, backed by a cloud estate of scanning, correlation and signature-delivery services on our own bare metal. Roughly 70… ## [USC Computer Scientist Answers Five Common Questions About AI](https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2026/08/usc-computer-scientist-answers-five-common-questions-about-ai/) _2026-08-21 · Venice Tang · USC Viterbi | School of Engineering_ Through AI interpretability research, Robin Jia answers five questions about AI– from emotions and consciousness to learning, decision-making and speed The post USC Computer Scientist Answers Five Common Questions About AI appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering . ## [I listed a GitHub App before building the backend](https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/029-post.html) _2026-08-21 · Anthony Ettinger · Chovy's Blog_ ThreatCrush has a GitHub App listing now. The app asks for two read permissions and nothing else, on purpose, because widening a published listing is harder than starting narrow. Plus the setup URL that 404d on every installer, and how to tell a draft Marketplace listing from a typo. ## [Four genres, and the filter that was eating the other 89%](https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/028-post.html) _2026-08-21 · Anthony Ettinger · Chovy's Blog_ The music section of my release-tracker listed four genres. I blamed the data source. The data source was fine: my own ingest was dropping nine out of every ten releases, and the fix was already sitting in the schema. ## [System Design : Search Autocomplete at Scale](https://betterengineers.substack.com/p/system-design-search-autocomplete) _2026-08-21 · Better Engineering · Better Engineers_ You type “face” into Google’s search box. ## [Machine Learning Algorithms You'll Use All the Time At Your Job](https://danicasimic.substack.com/p/machine-learning-algorithms-youll) _2026-08-21 · Danica Simic · Danica's Substack | Data Science, AI & Career_ 6 Algorithms I use for my clients’ projects and models ## [A dead A record and six modules that never loaded](https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/027-post.html) _2026-08-21 · Anthony Ettinger · Chovy's Blog_ A subdomain pointed at a VPS that no longer exists, and nothing was watching it. Fixing it surfaced six modules failing silently behind a green health check, plus a runtime that loaded one more module than the other. ## [What each feature actually costs me in AI](https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/026-post.html) _2026-08-21 · Anthony Ettinger · Chovy's Blog_ Five agents, five git worktrees, one command that reads the engines' own logs. Over 90 percent of a $228 day turned out to be cache reads, and a bug hunt cost 65 times what a short blog session did. ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sV7g5tPrVBWe) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [Our customers block ads, so we sell them in the terminal](https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/025-post.html) _2026-08-21 · Anthony Ettinger · Chovy's Blog_ Every product we ship is aimed at developers, and developers are the hardest audience on earth to buy. So we built the one ad format nobody else sells: a plain text unit you curl into an MOTD. ## [Bending tradition](https://ilearnt.com/blog/bendingtradition/) _2026-08-21 · I Learnt_ I recently went to a weekend of weddings that bent tradition - sticking to some and tweaking others. ## [Readers can't identify watermarked AI text](https://seangoedecke.com/readers-cant-identify-watermarked-ai-text/) _2026-08-21 · seangoedecke.com RSS feed_ In the last few weeks, I’ve been complaining that everyone is wrong about AI watermarking: it isn’t really anti-consumer and it doesn’t make the outputs any worse. The watermarking papers demonstrate 1 that this is true, but I thought it might be interesting to put it to a practical test. Given examples of watermarked and unwatermarked answers to the same prompt, could readers tell which is which?… ## [Mental-Health AI Is Not Just Another Chatbot](https://danicasimic.substack.com/p/mental-health-ai-is-not-just-another) _2026-08-20 · Danica Simic · Danica's Substack | Data Science, AI & Career_ I Tested an AI “Therapist.” It Failed the Simplest Boundary Test. ## [Stealth Startup Spy #367](https://stealthstartupspy.substack.com/p/stealth-startup-spy-367) _2026-08-20 · Drake Dukes · Stealth Startup Spy_ Ex-Intel & NVIDIA GPU vet builds stealth venture, Ex-Apple & Tesla engineer builds pool-owner grid energy platform, & Ex-Meta & TikTok researcher builds open-source agent drift detector ## [How to See Eye to Eye With AI](https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2026/08/how-to-see-eye-to-eye-with-ai/) _2026-08-20 · Matilda Bathurst · USC Viterbi | School of Engineering_ An award-winning study from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and the US Army Research Laboratory applies natural language dialogue to help humans and intelligent systems coordinate knowledge and achieve shared goals. The post How to See Eye to Eye With AI appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering . ## [SQL, NoSQL, Vector, Time-Series, and Graph Databases Explained for System Design Interviews](https://designgurus.substack.com/p/every-database-type-explained-in) _2026-08-20 · Arslan Ahmad · System Design Nuggets_ The Complete Database Type Reference for 2026: SQL, Key-Value, Document, Wide-Column, Graph, Vector, and Time-Series Databases Each Explained With When to Use Them and What They Cost ## [If/Else in CSS](https://jakeworth.com/tils/if-else-in-css/) _2026-08-20 · Jake Worth_ Today I got to try the experimental if/else syntax in CSS: /\* Component.module.css \*/ img { transform : if ( style ( -- isZoomed : true) : scale( 2 ) ; else : scale( 1 )); } I used it to pass a variable from React state to the stylesheet: // Component.tsx \< img style = {{ '--isZoomed' : isZoomed ? 'true' : 'false' }} /\> I think conditional classes would be my preference for managing this for real,… ## [Modular CSS Classes and Elements](https://jakeworth.com/tils/modular-css-classes-and-elements/) _2026-08-20 · Jake Worth_ A goal of modular CSS is to scope styles to components. Globally styling elements like h1 is to be done sparingly. Instead, we use class syntax: /\* Component.module.css \*/ . header { color : purple ; } // Component.tsx import { styles } from './Component.module.css' ; const Component = () =\> { return ( \< section \> \< h1 className = { styles . header }\> A purple header here 💜 \ \… ## [The Power of One Test](https://jakeworth.com/posts/the-power-of-one-test/) _2026-08-20 · Jake Worth_ A developer experience and quality control measure I take on programs I'm building, even small ones, is always to write at least one test. ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kq9rPQDF9mj8) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [Two hours from idea to a live URL](https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/024-post.html) _2026-08-19 · Anthony Ettinger · Chovy's Blog_ I wanted a notification before my team played. Two hours later tipoffwatch.com was live. Why ESPN's free JSON made it possible, what the stack decisions actually cost, and the bugs that only showed up once real data hit it. ## [C Developer Intern (worldwide, remote)](https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/29579/c-developer-intern-worldwide-remote/) _2026-08-19 · CloudLinux · Open Source JobHub_ Remote (Warsaw, Poland) CloudLinux We are seeking talented and motivated C Developer Interns to join our CloudLinux team. As an intern at CloudLinux, you will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in C development and contribute to the development of our innovative projects. CloudLinux is a leading provider of Linux-based operating systems and security solutions for web hosting… ## [Linux Support Engineer](https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/29576/linux-support-engineer/) _2026-08-19 · SUSE · Open Source JobHub_ Japan SUSE About Us SUSE is a global leader of enterprise open source software. By transforming community innovations into secure, sovereign and AI-ready solutions, SUSE empowers customers to escape vendor lock-in and regain control of their IT destiny. Through industry-leading Linux, Kubernetes, Edge and AI infrastructure solutions, SUSE delivers the flexibility to innovate everywhere—from the… ## [Cybersecurity GRC & AI Governance Expert](https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/29568/cybersecurity-grc-ai-governance-expert/) _2026-08-19 · SUSE · Open Source JobHub_ Czech Republic, EMEA SUSE About Us SUSE is a global leader of enterprise open source software. By transforming community innovations into secure, sovereign and AI-ready solutions, SUSE empowers customers to escape vendor lock-in and regain control of their IT destiny. Through industry-leading Linux, Kubernetes, Edge and AI infrastructure solutions, SUSE delivers the flexibility to innovate… ## [Platform Engineering Manager, Shared Services](https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/29567/platform-engineering-manager-shared-services/) _2026-08-19 · SUSE · Open Source JobHub_ Prague, Czech Republic SUSE About Us SUSE is a global leader of enterprise open source software. By transforming community innovations into secure, sovereign and AI-ready solutions, SUSE empowers customers to escape vendor lock-in and regain control of their IT destiny. Through industry-leading Linux, Kubernetes, Edge and AI infrastructure solutions, SUSE delivers the flexibility to innovate… ## [Technical Consultant & Premium Support Engineer (Linux for SAP)](https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/29564/technical-consultant-premium-support-engineer-linux-for-sap/) _2026-08-19 · SUSE · Open Source JobHub_ South Korea SUSE About Us SUSE is a global leader of enterprise open source software. By transforming community innovations into secure, sovereign and AI-ready solutions, SUSE empowers customers to escape vendor lock-in and regain control of their IT destiny. Through industry-leading Linux, Kubernetes, Edge and AI infrastructure solutions, SUSE delivers the flexibility to innovate everywhere—from… ## [Security Certification Engineer](https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/29562/security-certification-engineer/) _2026-08-19 · SUSE · Open Source JobHub_ Italy, EMEA SUSE About Us SUSE is a global leader of enterprise open source software. By transforming community innovations into secure, sovereign and AI-ready solutions, SUSE empowers customers to escape vendor lock-in and regain control of their IT destiny. Through industry-leading Linux, Kubernetes, Edge and AI infrastructure solutions, SUSE delivers the flexibility to innovate everywhere—from… ## [Technical Consultant - Cloud Native](https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/29561/technical-consultant-cloud-native/) _2026-08-19 · SUSE · Open Source JobHub_ Taiwan SUSE About Us SUSE is a global leader of enterprise open source software. By transforming community innovations into secure, sovereign and AI-ready solutions, SUSE empowers customers to escape vendor lock-in and regain control of their IT destiny. Through industry-leading Linux, Kubernetes, Edge and AI infrastructure solutions, SUSE delivers the flexibility to innovate everywhere—from the… ## [Cloud Native Support Engineer](https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/29559/cloud-native-support-engineer/) _2026-08-19 · SUSE · Open Source JobHub_ Pleasant Grove, UT, United States of America SUSE About Us SUSE is a global leader of enterprise open source software. By transforming community innovations into secure, sovereign and AI-ready solutions, SUSE empowers customers to escape vendor lock-in and regain control of their IT destiny. Through industry-leading Linux, Kubernetes, Edge and AI infrastructure solutions, SUSE delivers the… ## [Inspecting Symlink with readlink](https://jakeworth.com/tils/inspecting-symlink-with-readlink/) _2026-08-19 · Jake Worth_ There are a few ways to know that a file is a symlink. Here's one I learned today. ## [Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7QCzFbDuV8JH) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell and margin trade BTC & ETH with fiat currencies ## [Giving AI Agents the Keys? USC Engineers Develop Tools to Audit and Monitor AI Agents](https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2026/08/giving-ai-agents-the-keys-usc-engineers-develop-tools-to-audit-and-monitor-ai-agents/) _2026-08-19 · Venice Tang · USC Viterbi | School of Engineering_ USC computer scientists develop tools to screen agents before they act, block risky actions in real time and trace their decisions after the fact The post Giving AI Agents the Keys? USC Engineers Develop Tools to Audit and Monitor AI Agents appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering . ## [Talanta Sports City: Engineering Kenya’s New National Stadium — and Making the Investment Count](https://www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/talanta-sports-city-engineering-kenyas-new-national-stadium-and-making-the-investment-count/) _2026-08-19 · Kenya Engineer · Kenya Engineer_ Last Updated 1 day ago by Kenya Engineer When Kenya Engineer reported on the construction of Talanta Sports Stadium in August 2024, the project was still largely a construction story: a new national arena rising at Jamhuri Grounds as Kenya prepared to co-host the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations. Two years later, the project has \[…\] The post Talanta Sports City: Engineering Kenya’s New National Stadium… ## [Remembering the Percent as Wildcard](https://jakeworth.com/tils/remembering-the-percent-as-wildcard/) _2026-08-19 · Jake Worth_ It's been a bit since I was typing SQL into a REPL. One interface that didn't come back to me right away is the percent character in a like or ilike query: select full\_name from users where full\_name ilike 'jake%' ; Returns: full\_name ----------- Jake Gyllenhaal Jake Tapper Jake Worth (3 rows) This percent sign ensures we get all the Jakes. Here's how I'm going to remember this next time. ## [15 Books Every Programmer Should Read](https://javarevisited.substack.com/p/15-books-every-programmer-should) _2026-08-19 · javinpaul · Javarevisited Newsletter_ 15 Must Read books on Coding, Design, Architecture, Algorithms, Data Structure, Problem Solving, Planning, and Project Management, and work culture. ## [\[Week 5\] How to Draw a High-Level System Architecture That Impresses Interviewers](https://designgurus.substack.com/p/week-5-how-to-draw-a-high-level-system) _2026-08-19 · Arslan Ahmad · System Design Nuggets_ Week 5 of 8: The Exact Process for Drawing a High-Level System Architecture That Signals Senior-Level Thinking, From What to Draw First to How to Narrate Every Component as You Place It ## [Run a multiplayer AI marketing team on Notion](https://jon4growth.substack.com/p/run-a-multiplayer-ai-marketing-team) _2026-08-19 · Jonathan Martinez · The AI Marketer_ Step-by-step guide ## [Rust developer/software engineer at NLnet foundation](https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/29558/rust-developer-software-engineer-at-nlnet-foundation/) _2026-08-19 · NLnet Foundation · Open Source JobHub_ Hybrid (Amsterdam, Netherlands) NLnet Foundation Are you fluent in Rust and want to have an impact with your skills? For its Amsterdam office, NLnet is looking for an enthusiastic and security minded software developer to be part of its team. You will join the team responsible for the development and operation of the (Rust based) backend through which we administer our open source grant… ## [You're Not Bad at Hard Things](https://alifeengineered.substack.com/p/youre-not-bad-at-hard-things) _2026-08-19 · Steve Huynh · A Life Engineered_ Most of what overwhelms you is complexity that you have misdiagnosed as difficulty. ## [The AI storage pitch is a load balancing problem](https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/023-post.html) _2026-08-19 · Anthony Ettinger · Chovy's Blog_ I signed up for an F5 and Scality webinar about feeding GPUs from object storage, then read the technical writeup behind it. The interesting parts are hot spot avoidance, what erasure coding actually costs, and why post quantum TLS matters more than the handshake. ## [There May Be Nobody There](https://yusufaytas.com/there-may-be-nobody-there) _2026-08-19 · Yusuf Aytas_ Why AI;DR immediately makes sense: readers are looking for a human mind behind the words, not just useful information without effort, personality, or authenticity. ## [One token, zero scopes, and the .env I clobbered](https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/022-post.html) _2026-08-19 · Anthony Ettinger · Chovy's Blog_ Setting a single environment variable on a crawler meant picking a token with no permissions, and accidentally overwriting the .env I was only trying to read. Why secrets belong in a vault instead of a file, and how the logicsrc CLI does it. ## [Nvidia Said Hold My GPUs](https://haystackapp.substack.com/p/nvidia-said-hold-my-gpus) _2026-08-19 · Haystack · Haystack Digest_ Nvidia is no longer just a chip company, it is basically a bank now, throwing $105 billion at OpenAI’s Ohio data centre + Engineers needed ## [Cloning takes a weekend, finding the 38% took months](https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/021-post.html) _2026-08-19 · Anthony Ettinger · Chovy's Blog_ I posted 'hire us or we'll clone your ass in a weekend' on LinkedIn. The cloning part is true and boring. Here is what a weekend does not buy, using two bugs I found in my own product yesterday. ## [The break and fix is the part worth watching](https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/020-post.html) _2026-08-19 · Anthony Ettinger · Chovy's Blog_ A Bluesky post said polished tutorials hide the friction. Here is this morning's friction: I shipped a near-black ad bar onto a blog that is black on white, and the fix turned into two palettes per creative and a tag that measures the page. ## [One writer, twelve workers, zero rows](https://dev.profullstack.com/~anthony/blog/019-post.html) _2026-08-19 · Anthony Ettinger · Chovy's Blog_ My feed crawler stopped dead on SQLite write locks. It was not the 14GB database, the FTS triggers, the batch size or the quota. It was a dozen concurrent transactions fighting over a lock one of them could hold. The fix was a BullMQ queue with concurrency 1 on Bun. ## [GitHub's 8-Hour Outage Was Mostly Retries](https://read.bytesizeddesign.com/p/github-outage-retry-storm-postmortem) _2026-08-19 · Byte-Sized Design · Byte-Sized Design_ One sidecar hit its ceiling. The clients did the other seven hours. ## [Good writing is obvious, not original](https://seangoedecke.com/good-writing-is-obvious-not-original/) _2026-08-19 · seangoedecke.com RSS feed_ When you write, you should try to say things that are obviously true, and spend very little time worrying about whether you’re being original. Ironically, this is the best way to do truly original writing. Every important idea has been discussed already. I learned this in grad school for philosophy 1 , but it’s true across the board. Almost every field 2 has generations of very smart people who’ve… ## [Opus 5 doesn't use em-dashes in code comments](https://lalitm.com/post/code-comments-are-a-model-fingerprint/) _2026-08-18 · Lalit Maganti_ I’ve been using Opus 5 as my main coding for the last few days 1, and I noticed something odd: the code comments stopped using em-dashes; everything is double hyphens (--) now. Instead of going off a gut feeling, I decided to actually run some checks. agentsview indexes all my conversations into a SQLite database, so this kind of question is just a query away. Here’s the chart: Seems pretty clear… ## [Staff Field Reliability Engineer](https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/29556/staff-field-reliability-engineer/) _2026-08-18 · Honeycomb · Open Source JobHub_ United States Honeycomb What We’re Building Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the… ## [Senior Solution Architect](https://opensourcejobhub.com/job/29555/senior-solution-architect/) _2026-08-18 · Honeycomb · Open Source JobHub_ United States Honeycomb What We’re Building Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the…