Hey there! Welcome to a new edition of Hybrid Hacker! 🌟
Every week I share the top articles I have found and personally read on the internet. I only share the stuff I believe it’s worth your time.
100% signal, 0% slop.
I mainly read things from my public daily digest, which curates an ever growing list of sources. Here is this week’s best stuff 👇
🌀 What’s next for Refactoring
9 min • by Luca Rossi
This week I shared some thoughts about what’s next for Refactoring. Our mission stays the same, but how we pursue it changes, because the gap between the best teams and everyone else is getting bigger.
So I am doubling down on in-person podcasts, the community, deeper articles, and building things myself with Tolaria!
🥇 The Conversation Before the Conversation
12 min • by Kevin Goldsmith
Kevin argues that the conversations leaders regret are not the hard ones, but the easy ones they postpone until the problem isn’t small anymore.
He also shares five signals that a conversation is already overdue, like people quietly working around the issue, or the talk in your head getting bigger every week. Loved this!
🥈 The CPTO role from people who know
6 min • by Anna Shipman
Anna shares notes from a panel of CPTOs, none of whom would go back to leading only product or only engineering. You don’t need both backgrounds, but you do need to find the challenge a peer used to give you.
It fits well with what I wrote this week about roles getting closer.
🥉 Introducing Review Box
4 min • by Radoslav Stankov
Rado built his own desktop app for reviewing pull requests, and did all of his 1,197 reviews this year in it. Agents write a lot of his code now, so he leaves bugs to AI reviewers and focuses on requirements and architecture. I love this take, and love when people build their own tools!
And that’s it for today! If you find this list useful, please share it with your friends!
You can also read the very same things I read every day via this free daily digest 📬
See you next week!
Sincerely 👋
Luca