Friday Links: The software squeeze, TDD, and ad-blockers
04 Jul 2025 #mondaylinksHey there.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. Five years ago, we only needed “Software Engineer” as a title on LinkedIn to be flooded with “life-changing” opportunities. People jumped in for the money. Tech was booming. But that bubble popped. We’re living in a software engineering squeeze (5min).
#2. The most boring part of software projects? It’s when we’re just closing JIRA tickets instead of solving real problems. It’s when we’re in Ticket-Driven Development (4min).
#3. As a coder, you don’t have to know every single acronym, framework, or tool. It’s fine to say I don’t know (3min). But I’ve learned to rephrame it as “I don’t know…yet”
#4. Maybe this is a good excuse to buy augmented reality glasses to use them as ad-blockers (3min).
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about a recovery guide for AI-dependent coders (5min) and the best 3 pieces of advice I’ve received (2min).
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See you next time,
Cesar
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