My biggest takeaways from Dan Abramov
The Señors @ Scale Season 3 premiere is out. Dan Abramov co-created Redux, worked at Meta as part of the React Core Team and spent time at Bluesky, and now helps build Next.js at Vercel.
We get into what AT Protocol actually is, why it has no instances the way Mastodon does, why your followers aren't even your data, and why Dan hasn't reached for a state manager in five years.
Watch the full episode on YouTube
Community reads
AI and agents
Claude on call: How Claude Tag serves as Anthropic's first responder for CI/CD failures by Sachin Malhotra — the agent Anthropic's own engineers now trust to triage failing tests before anyone gets paged at 10pm.
The oldest architecture in computing by Werner Vogels — a GPU needs hundreds of thousands of tries to learn what a human brain picks up in a handful, so what does that gap mean for agent memory?
Engineering leadership
The revolt of the reader by Bryan Cantrill — a case for why writing forces you to test your own ideas long before anyone else reads them.
The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development by Nolan Lawson — the frontend educators he admires most keep bowing out, one by one.
Web platform
Using maths to balance your heading styles by Craig Abbott — a modular scale for styling six heading levels that stays accessible without relying on colour.
Industry
Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify by Adam Wathan — the framework installed 110 million times a week just found itself a new home.
Book recommendation
I love reading, so here's my latest read.
High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
Grove ran Intel as its president and later CEO, and turned it into the world's largest chipmaker. Almost every management book since borrows from this one, the EM books especially, and reading the source made clear how much of it traces straight back here.
Meme of the week
Conferences
CityJS Athens
CityJS lands in Athens this October.
My link takes 10% off the ticket price for you.
React Day Berlin
React Day Berlin takes over Kosmos on December 4.
Register through my badge and the remote ticket is free, which normally costs €90 at the early bird rate. You get the HD stream and the free remote workshops, and the recordings afterwards.
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