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@jcsalterego.bsky.social Cheffy would blnever

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Examples of The Eponymous Trifecta:

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Hopefully you’re starting to see the pattern. (There’s way more of these out there. Let me know your...

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git-spice – stacked diffs, but without another (SaaS) tool to provision and pay for. Excellent ergonomics, if you’re comfortable with the git CLI as-is. I’ve tried this for one project so far, things went as hoped. Moving between commit ‘stacks’ is easy, and rebasing changes from the main branch is...

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When you’re stuck or uninspired, reach for your spark file:

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This is why for the past eight years or so I’ve been maintaining a single document where I keep all my hunches: ideas for articles, speeches, software features, startups, ways of framing a chapter I know I’m going to write, even whole books. I now keep it as a Google document so I can update it from wherever I happen to be. There’s no organizing principle to it, no taxonomy–just a chronological list of semi-random ideas that I’ve managed to capture before I forgot them. I call it the spark file.

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Steven Johnson, The Spark File

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It’s a...

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If you were wondering, “could anyone make OAuth2 an even more involved, jargon-filled process?”, the answer is yes. AT Protocol and Bluesky sure did. 🙃

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RIP my vim muscle memory: therealadam.com

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@mikker.dev Can you blame it, when its creators named “Go, run like a wild horse” after Ralph Wiggum?

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Yeah, I’ve locked in to a few writing and coding sessions with The Social Network soundtrack. But, have you ever tried locking in to something you can move your hips to?

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Related: currently compiling a list of Soundtracks That Didn’t Have To Go So Hard, and Prince’s Batman is way up there.

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@dnulkjkjh.bsky.social it was RuneStone (couldn’t get it to work) and CodeEditKit (got it to work, but the tree-sitter integration was a lot of awkward Xcode integration work)

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Wrapping up lil’ document editor “research”, starting to write more on it. In short: cross-platform in the Apple ecosystem is possible, but tricky once you get into third-party libraries. Agent coding makes a lot possible, but doesn’t make anything trivial. Prototypes without a plan for using it regularly,...

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Behind every guitar god there is, literally, a drummer making the odd 7/8 or 5/4 bar sound like 4/4. Paraphrasing Einstein, true guitar gods don’t play at dice or outside of a strict 4/4. (Inspired by: what the heck even is “Black Dog”?)

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Squeeze out the trickiest part of the problem, another part of the problem becomes the trickiest. A tale as old as time.

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Today, it seems like the biggest opportunities will be in the third of my opening statements. Building systems remains hard. Can I assume you’re familiar with Amdahl’s Law? That’s what’s going on: a massive speed up on a portion of the problem, but as that portion speeds up it becomes less and less of a contributor to the overall speedup. Lowering the costs of the rest of the problem is work that remains to be done. It’s going to take a long time, because the real world is fully of...

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Blogging (Classic): therealadam.com

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I love when/what Matt Webb builds:

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It should be SO EASY to share + collaborate on Markdown text files. The AI world runs on .md files. Yet frictionless Google Docs-style collab is so hard… UNTIL NOW, and how about that for a tease.

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— mist: Share and edit Markdown together, quickly

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We need more “this (thing) should be as easy to collaborate on as Google Docs” sort of things in the world. Granted, I’m not a fan of writing in or using Google Docs! But the collaboration model is right and people know how to use it. May many more bloom.

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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to change, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.\n– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books

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You can’t argue with a star!

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I went to see an elephant about a birthday.

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Dave Rupert, Write about the future you want:

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There’s a lot that’s not going well; politics, tech bubbles, the economy, and so on. I spend most of my day reading angry tweets and blog posts. There’s a lot to be upset about, so that’s understandable. But in the interest of fostering better discourse, I’d like to offer a challenge that I think the world desperately needs right now: It’s cheap and easy to complain and say “[Thing] is bad”, but it’s also free to share what you think would be better.

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Co-signed.

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This is not my beautiful agent-driven economy: therealadam.com

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Processes should serve outcomes, not the other way ‘round: therealadam.com

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Bobcat, a document editor prototype: therealadam.com

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It’s the end-game of typing code as we know it: therealadam.com

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@therealadam Thanks!

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I’m impressed by Cursor, the holistic product. I wish the shortcut keys made more sense as a whole and not like they evolved from the work of 3 divisions over 3 decades. 🙃

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Joining a new crew amidst a sea change: therealadam.com

","summary":"Wherein types, agents, and quality-of-life matter a lot for software development these days.","url":"https://therealadam.com/2026/01/02/joining-a-new-crew-amidst.html","date_published":"2026-01-02T22:11:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Adam Keys","url":"https://therealadam.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F09%2F14828.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"therealadam"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-02 22:11","date_timestamp":1767391919,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://ruby.social/@therealadam/115827803485404360","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a72dw6ymlmuqmshx2hbigmsu/post/3mbhw4tspba2o"]}},{"id":"80805003","content_html":"

The hand we dealt: therealadam.com

","summary":"Wherein generational life-scripts have downstream consequences.","url":"https://therealadam.com/2025/12/26/the-hand-we-dealt.html","date_published":"2025-12-26T23:42:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Adam Keys","url":"https://therealadam.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F09%2F14828.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"therealadam"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-26 23:42","date_timestamp":1766792570,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://ruby.social/@therealadam/115788527094789242","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a72dw6ymlmuqmshx2hbigmsu/post/3mawhxz4m2w22"]}},{"id":"80447405","content_html":"

Three great clarinet-adjacent sentences: therealadam.com

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@therealadam.com Planning out a project by developing an estimate, rather than just hacking it out, is a way of developing software and enough of a creative effort that you might enjoy it more than sitting in meetings and updating budget spreadsheets!

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buttondown.com/therealadam…

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@therealadam.com It won’t change your luck, but it will make you more prepared when it comes ‘round.

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@therealadam.com If you don’t know Bradford, find that kind of person in your personal/professional network who can deeply consider your job search, from extensive hiring experience, and ask them for an hour of their day to talk things through.

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@therealadam.com If you’ve ever worked with Bradford, or had a deep conversation with him, I bet he’s happy to extend the same favor to you.

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@therealadam.com He gave me great feedback on making an impression on interviewers and how to stand out at every stage. I got good ideas on how to answer “what’s your salary range?” confidently but without letting myself down.

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@therealadam.com That mutual, Bradford Fults if you know him, took more than an hour, no strings attached, out of his day to listen to holistically consider my whole process.

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@therealadam.com A pal suggested I talk to a mutual friend who knows more, from experience, about most things than most folks do. A systematic and intense thinker who could help me troubleshoot my efforts.

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@therealadam.com For a while, I thought debriefing myself, on what went well and what could go better, was sufficiently rigorous. But, I was sometimes easy on myself or a bit lazy. Figuring out improvements that would have the most impact, and acting upon them, is tricky on one’s own.

\n","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a72dw6ymlmuqmshx2hbigmsu/post/3m7bbrh64mk2d","date_published":"2025-12-05T20:03:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Adam Keys","url":"https://therealadam.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F09%2F14828.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"therealadam"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-05 20:03","date_timestamp":1764964982,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"78936244","content_html":"

@therealadam.com Our society has made some short-sighted decisions that are all manifesting suddenly. Eroded social safety nets, AI slop, and questionable approaches to growing the economic pie are all hitting at once.

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It sucks to experience it out in the cold, instead of under a warm blanket.

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@therealadam.com If you’re still out there looking, remind yourself that the situation you find yourself in, the parts that feel real bad, are not your fault.

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@therealadam.com If you have an opportunity, sing a job seeker’s praises to the hiring manager! The best interviews I had came this way.

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@therealadam.com How to help someone (still) looking:

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Keep in touch, even if you don’t have a warm opportunity. It keeps the lonelies/dismals away. A 15-minute text/chat conversation could be the highlight of the day for the job seeker.

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@therealadam.com More than half of my interview rejections were after the first recruiter/hiring manager screen. This despite feeling like that was my strongest phase!

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Goes to show, paying attention to how you’re failing to convert opportunities is crucial.

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@therealadam.com My search, by the numbers:
\n213 applications,
\n46% explicitly rejected,
\n38% rejected by ghosting (never talked to a human).

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Of the 33 times I talked to humans, I was only ghosted after speaking with humans once.

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@therealadam.com Spend more time on practice, less time on cold applications.

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Out-of-network applications are the part of the whole process that is the most broken, for recruiters and applicants.

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@therealadam.com Opportunities are so hard to come by (I did ~1.5 legit interview cycles per month), you have to make the most of them.

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Practicing at coding, design, or behavioral screens will make you feel better. You’re putting circumstances back under your control, even if only a little bit.

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@therealadam.com What worked:
\nLuck * preparation = success (eventually)

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Find the forum(s) your people are on, post that you’re looking every month or two.
\nPractice at every kind of interview you might face.

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@therealadam.com When you prevail, you fight another algorithm (word count) to thank all the people who helped along the way.

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Thanks to: Brian B, Rob E, Ryan S, Brad F, Brian S, Melissa S, Alissa R, Marcos A, Geoffrey G, and my patient, loving wife.

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Couldn’t have done it without your support!🤗

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@therealadam.com Landing a job feels like winning an Emmy these days.

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You put yourself out there, a lot,
\nfight an algorithm,
\ntry to put your best self out there despite all the rejections,
\nand hope you don’t end up in the “this is their 7th nomination, no wins” category.

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@therealadam.com If you can, join interview teams! Knowing how the whole system works helps a lot later on. Especially, for not overthinking it afterwards.

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And, someone from HR or a hiring manager will thank you profusely for devoting the time needed to find the right person to join the team.

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@therealadam.com therealadam.com/2025/10/06/…

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