opinion

The year is 2025. The internet in the shape that we’ve known it in the early 2000s is no longer there. Or, not quite in the shape that we’ve seen it before. This is not just plain nostalgia talking - the vibrant ecosystem of blogs, feeds, personal sites, and forums has been usurped by a few mega-concentrated players.

I have nothing against the concept of aliases at its core, but I have a lot to say about it being treated as some kind of security barrier against the bad guys and gals busting into your private accounts. Email aliases are a privacy and not a security measure.

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If there would be some absurd world where I would be able to choose two pieces of the common vocabulary that should just vanish, it would be “just” and “works for me.” We, folks in tech, got way too comfortable throwing these around.

If product management was ever perfected and applied evenly to every single company and industry, we’d likely swim in products that solve all our problems. Unfortunately, good product management is unevenly distributed and often takes on patterns and practices that are very far from optimal.

I alluded to this a few days ago, but I have a new role. Starting today, I am back at Microsoft.

Not too long ago, I was reading Charlie Kindel’s “You’re Thinking of Your Career Trajectory Wrong” and it reminded me of yet another trope that somehow is very commonplace, at least in the tech industry - your career is not a sprint, it’s a marathon.

Starting today, I am officially part of the Microsoft Developer Relations organization, helping scale the developer outreach efforts.

I finally broke away from my habit of using laptops and got back to building desktop machines.

Asking customers for a solution to a problem they have is going to lead you the wrong way. Ask for an in-depth overview of the problem.

SMS-based two-factor authentication is insecure and can create more headache than it’s worth.

A collection of tips and tricks to make you more productive in the upcoming year.