The Lamplighter Test: Hiring Engineers Without the Trivia Circus
Whiteboard trivia was already a weak proxy for engineering skill, and the AI era made it worse. Here's the story I hand candidates instead.
19 Aug 2026
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Just Use HTML, Man
React, Angular, and the noble art of over-engineering a document. A rant about framework addiction, the beauty of server-rendered HTML, and why boring tech ships.
20 May 2026
Vibe Coding VS Prompt Engineering VS AI Powered Development
There's vibe coding, there's prompt engineering, and then there's actually building software with AI. Here's why the difference matters.
16 May 2026