Friday Links: Coding, Space Jam, and people problems
19 Dec 2025 #mondaylinksHey, I didn’t miss my reading time this week. Here are 4 interesting links for you:
#1. One big lesson I’ve learned after over a decade in coding is most technical problems are people problems (5min). Most team problems trace back to poor communication. Just like marriages.
#2. I watched Space Jam countless times as a kid. I remember it because a coder tried to recreate its website with Claude and failed (10min).
#3. Blogging isn’t dead. There are still indie bloggers in a small corner of the Internet. Here are two ideas to discover indie bloggers (3min).
#4. With AI spitting out code faster than any of us, writing code may not be our main offering as coders (2min), but judgment, past failed projects, and risk management.
By now, I’ve finished the Advent of Code. Two days were tough. Instructions weren’t clear enough, or I overcomplicated my solutions. Here are two days where I got stuck: Day 8 (5min) and Day 11 (2min). I ended up looking at solutions to get unstuck.
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See you next time,
Cesar