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1 week ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. CodeRabbit — Cut code review time and bugs in half. Use the code PRAGMATIC to get one month free. Modal — The cloud platform for building AI applications—What happens when LLMs meet real-world codebases? In this episode of ThePragmatic Engineer, I am joined by Varun Mohan, CEO and Co-Founder of Windsurf.
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1 week ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
‘The Mythical Man-Month’ by Frederick P. Brooks was published in 1975, 50 years ago. The book is still quoted today, most famously in the form of “Brooks’ Law;” the eponym that adding manpower to a late software project makes it even more late. But in many ways, computing then and now are worlds apart. So, what truths does the book still contain, or does it belong in a museum of computing history?
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2 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
The Pulse is a series covering insights, patterns, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Send me a message. Today, we cover:US judge says Apple violated court injunction, lied under oath, and that “Apple Tax” must stop. Lying under oath can lead to jail, and an Apple executive is accused of it in relation to a court order about the company blocking web payments.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: Written by me (Gergely) – now out in audio form as well. —How do you get product and engineering to truly operate as one team? Today, I’m joined by Ebi Atawodi, Director of Product Management at YouTube Studio, and a former product leader at Netflix and Uber.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. • Graphite — The AI developer productivity platform. • Sentry — Error and performance monitoring for developers. Get 150k errors (three months of Team Plan) for free.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
Late last week, The Pragmatic Engineer passed 1 million subscribers. It’s a number that far exceeds what I ever even secretly hoped the newsletter could achieve, but it has happened in the three and a half years since launching this newsletter on Substack. I want to say a very special thank you to all readers and in particular to paid subscribers – this newsletter is possible thanks entirely to your support.
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4 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
The Pulse is a series covering insights, patterns, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Send me a message. Today, we cover:Industry pulse. Apple and NVIDIA might (or might not!) get tariff exemptions, US advertising revenue could drop, OpenAI releases coding model GPT-4.1, Lovable rallies dev support after Figma’s cease-and-decist, frustration inside Apple with Siri, and more. Every company is launching its own coding agent.
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4 weeks ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Dave Anderson |Gergely Orosz
Listen and watch now on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. See the episode transcript at the top of this page, and timestamps for the episode at the bottom. WorkOS — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Modal — The cloud platform for building AI applications. Vanta — Automate compliance and simplify security with Vanta. —What is it like to work at Amazon as a software engineer?
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1 month ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
đ Hi, this is Gergely with a free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover two out of seven topics in todayâs subscriber-only deepdive: Tech hiring: is this an inflection point? If youâve been forwarded this email, you can subscribe here. Before we start:I do one conference talk every year, and this year it will be a keynote at LDX3 in London, on 16 June.
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1 month ago | 
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com | Gergely Orosz
The Pulse is a series covering insights, patterns, and trends within Big Tech and startups. Notice an interesting event or trend? Send me a message. Today, we cover:Industry pulse. Trump tariffs trigger disruption and economic uncertainty, Klarna halts IPO, Google joins companies embracing MCP protocol, GitHub Copilot Agent Mode and Code Review launches, Microsoft more cutthroat, and more. Google releases AI-powered IDE. Firebase Studio is web-based, and offers a nice user experience.