Cynthia Dunlop

Fun reading back my segment in this series. I’ve made a lot more progress than I expected to 😊

And yet another reason to write -- so you can reflect on your progress

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Why write engineering blogs? Here’s how some of our favorite bloggers responded to the question “Why did you start blogging and why do you continue?” writethatblog.substack.com/p/why-write-...

Video for my #monktoberfest talk is now up!
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Your intellectual fly is open
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2025 in Review with Mike Stonebraker and Andy Pavlo Webcast Dec 10: DBMS researchers Mike Stonebraker (MIT / DBOS) and Andy Pavlo (CMU) discuss which data and CS trends are heating up or cooling down heading into 2026.

Do you like databases?
Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them?
Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases?
If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...

The write last, read first rule // @dominiktornow.bsky.social - @tigerbeetle.com
You should write an agent // @sockpuppet.org - @fly.io
Indexing sparse vectors with Turso // Nikita Sivukhin - @tur.so

Assertions are not the problem; your verification process is // @penberg.org
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 // @eastdakota.com - @cloudflare.social
How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack // @fabinou.bsky.social
I built a synth for my daughter // Alastair Roberts

Piotr's latest picks for writethat.blog...
Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my entire network // Oscar Molnar
Assert in production // @dominiktornow.bsky.social
Intel is listening, don't waste your shot // Brendan Gregg

The Balanced Engineer • Issue #42 Revisiting engineering management practices, embracing GitHub culture, appreciating the Ruby on Rails community, and chatting with industry leaders in our podcast!

New month, new newsletter! Sharing some of my favorite things I read in November and some things I've been up to.

Also included a plug for the upcoming @overcommitted.dev Writing for Developers book club!

Check it out and subscribe 👇

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ScyllaDB can handle whatever you throw at it. ;-) If you're at re: Invent, stop by and say hi -booth 1747

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Please meet California Condor #36, just chilling at Pinnacles National Park

This week the Overcommitted crew sat down with @kateholterhoff.com to talk about what it's like being a Developer-Focused Analyst, and much more!

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AI Smells on Medium As part of compiling the monthly interesting links posts, I go through a ton of RSS feeds, sourced from specific blogs that I follow as well as general aggregators. These aggregators include quality…

✍️ It's not high-brow, it's not erudite, but it is a ranty af blog post about AI slop: rmoff.net/2025/11/25/a...

#enshittification #AISlop #blogging

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! 👏👏👏

2) If you’re proposing a talk that mentions your company’s product, realize that the committee will worry that it could be a thinly-veiled product pitch. Write accordingly.

Great tips! 2 more I’d add 1) In today’s blah blah age...please don’t let AI “polish” your abstract. Proofread, fine. But don’t let it blandify your ideas/style.

Just a reminder, now is a great time to pick up the Writing for Developers book for the upcoming book club! We will be kicking off the first two chapters of the book with discussions the week of December 15th! 📚

Want to make some friends on the internet with other developers? 👀

Lets read a book together! 😄

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Don’t Let That Content Go To Waste – Dan Moore! If you are a member of an online community and you participate, you’ll often write a few paragraphs in response to a comment or question. This is also true if you use a social network like LinkedIn…

If you are sharing your knowledge on slacks or discords, it's gonna get lost pretty quick, no matter how good it is. Capture that knowledge and put it at a URL so everyone can benefit. I wrote up how I do so here: www.mooreds.com/wordpress/ar...

Would also recommend @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social newsletter - even if you're not joining the book club!
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Thanks for reporting - the publisher will get that fixed

FYI @manning.com

"Writing for Developers" book club details 👀

Also, see this great starter pack that @brittanyellich.com just created bsky.app/profile/brit...

Want to chat about Writing for Developers with a super fun and supportive group? Pls join the Overcommitted book club for async and/or synchronous (virtual) discussions.

I started this right when I joined Bluesky, but failed miserably at keeping it current as more people came over. Thanks for buiding a better one! bsky.app/starter-pack...

For our latest tech blogger interview, we’re featuring Preston Thorpe. writethatblog.substack.com/p/preston-th...

Moving From C++ to Rust? ClickHouse Has Some Advice Facing the monumental challenge of maintaining a massive, security-vulnerable C++ codebase, the core ClickHouse team embarked on an incremental migration to Rust. Here's what they learned.

A nice recap of @clickhouse.com's P99 CONF keynote, by Joab Jackson of @thenewstack.io thenewstack.io/moving-from-...