Marko Zivanovic

If you are a software engineer "experiencing some degree of mental health crisis", now hear this, because I've been coding for 50 years since the days of punched cards and I have a salutary kick in your ass to deliver. Get over yourself. Every previous "programming is obsolete" panic has been a bust, and this one's going to be too. The fundamental problem of mismatch between the intentions in human minds and the specifications that a computer can interpret hasn't gone away just because now you can do a lot of your programming in natural language to an LLM. Systems are still complicated. This shit is still difficult. The need for people who specialize in bridging that gap isn't going to go away. As usual, the answer is: upskill yourself and adapt. If a crusty old fart like me can do it, you can too.

Trying out Google's Antigravity and catching up with agentic AI tools. Pretty happy with the code it generates, but I also don't feel fully in control unlike with some other solutions. The engineer in me wants to touch the code after every change. 🙂

Is anyone else having trouble logging into Reddit with their Google account?

One of the best books I've read this year on engineering management, and it doesn't even mention either engineering or management, is David Brooks' How to Know a Person: goodreads.com/book/show/1129… #EngineeringManagement #TechLeadership

It's settled! #EngineeringManagement

I am returning to X and subscribed to premium to use Grok. ChatGPT got extremely paranoid and full of censorship, so it's barely unusable for some creative things I used it for in the past. #ai #return

Yup, #LinkedIn is down. :)

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

@bryan_johnson @WHOOP Hey, @bryan_johnson! Thanks for the great inspiration. I'm just finishing the video. I'll be sure to include some things into my own routine slowly. Keep up the great work man, you videos are really amazing!

My sleep performance ranks in the 99th percentile of @WHOOP users my age. This video details what I'm doing. Nothing makes a bigger difference in my conscious existence than how well I sleep. youtube.com/watch?v=Z7veiy…

@AnfibiaCreativa Just WOW! This is great! FE colleagues in my company decided to go with micro-frontends. As an engineering manager with mostly a backend background, this will definitely help me to better understand what the heck they are doing. 😀 Great work Natalia!! Will share!

I wrote something: dev.to/anfibiacreativ… Please help me take microfrontend.dev closer to more people.

@ania_kubow Be aware of the camera/mic status! That one caused a lot of embarrassment for some people. 😀

What are your best remote working tips?

Tech debt, oh tech debt, A curse upon our code, It starts as just a shortcut, But soon it's quite the load. - totally not written by #ChatGPT #TechDebt #EngineeringManagement

@AndreaMonsalina Let's further increase the inflation rate, we all might become millionaires sooner than we think. 😅

@ambivalentcase I agree! Having said that, using good tools to stay above all things is better than not using them.🙂 Some people overcomplicate it, and some are not maybe utilizing the power of new tools we have at our disposal.

@markozivan0vic Management is more a way of thinking than about tools. Even p3n+paper, and calc is more than enough :) You use them to stay above all things that are happening.

What tools are you using for your daily work? I'd like to hear some answers from people working in #EngineeringManagement, but also from #managers generally. I'm using a mixture of Evernote, #google docs, sheets, and Slack reminders. Pretty scattered.

Is there an integrated solution aimed specifically at engineering management? #tools #productivitytips

@KatieARaby @drop This is beautiful!

One keyboard to rule them all! it’s amazing 🤩 #LOTR @drop

@CleanPegasus Damn! When Meta Quest Pro came out, its price was heavily discussed and criticized! I wonder how this will be embraced. $3k is a lot of cash, but excited to see the unveiling! Not sure what the targeted demographic will be tho.

Apple’s new VR headset is rumoured to cost $3000💰. Looks like I gotta start saving up🏦.

I had to implement the search for the objects I'm storing in my little web app. By geolocation, name, and some other parameters. I realized 2 hours ago that #laravel Scout exists and I'm already done! Really awesome framework and community! #php #sundaycoding