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When Leaders Ignore the No Asshole Rule
Originally published on Rough Edges . There's a pattern I've watched play out in more than one organization. From a distance it looks like high perfor…
The Engineer Who Owns Nothing: A Cautionary Tale
I'm going to tell you about an engineer I worked with. Call him Mark. Mark was talented, well-liked, and utterly ineffective. Here's what I learned fr…
Alibaba's 'Correct but Empty' Response to a 75,000-Word Employee Letter
The Event On June 4, 2026, a former DingTalk product manager named Teng Yaxin published a 75,000-character letter on Alibaba's internal forum titled "…
How We Handled Our First Major Outage (And Survived)
Three years ago we had our first real outage. Six hours of downtime. Thousands of angry users. Multiple executives on the call. Here's what we did rig…
Two Doors Into the Same Room
The Destruction Side: Phrack Magazine Phrack is a self‑published hacker zine founded in 1985, distributed via dial‑up bulletin board systems (BBS) rat…
Let's stop using flags as down-vote
From: https://lobste.rs/about Please don't use flagging to try to push down topics or people you don't like; click "hide" on the story and move on rat…
Building Trust with Product Teams as an SRE
SRE teams that fight with product teams don't get things done. SRE teams that get along with product teams get surprising amounts of reliability work …
Senior developer" after 3 years is title laundering
Startups hand out senior titles like candy. The industry pays the price. I have been doing interviews for about a year now, and I cannot escape this p…
Are you a member of any professional associations?
I am wondering if any lobsters are members of professional organizations / associations such as IEEE, ACM, SIAM, or others. If you are a member, can y…
Reading Log #9 — Aoashi The Tacit Dimension Thinking, Fast and Slow
Putting everything into words isn't honesty. Pride and awe dwell in the realm that can't be told. 1. The dimension of verbalization is different In Ao…
When Vulnerability Becomes Machine-Readable
There is a particular kind of person who treats vulnerability like exposed infrastructure. Not empathy. Not understanding. Not even cruelty in the tra…
The Perimeter Economy
Across the technology sector, disputes involving trade secrets, employee mobility, proprietary tooling, side projects, and independently developed sys…
Beyond Words: The Hidden Messages in Non-Verbal Communication
In the boardroom, your words might seal the deal, but it’s often your body language that opens the door. Research suggests that up to 93% of communica…
My Experience Working at Dr. Homi Bhabha State University, Mumbai
I want to share my experience working at Dr. Homi Bhabha State University (HBSU), Mumbai. For more than a year, I worked extensively on building and i…
Tech Burnout Isn't a Resilience Problem — It's an Organizational Design Failure
A few days ago, Harsh Tiwari published a piece on Dev.to that's worth your time: What Burnout Actually Feels Like (Not What Instagram Tells You) . It …