Stories by softwaredoug

Other hard things of software engineering

“Lucene HNSW is the future and (pure) vector DB vendors are in trouble.”

The Spectrum of Anger

Alignment > Autonomy

Vector search in Elasticsearch: The rationale behind the design

Why search orgs fail (and occasionally succeed)

The away team model at Amazon (2022)

Inner Source Commons

Don’t let cynicism undermine your workplace

Image of Equation –> OCR –> LaTEX –> ChatGPT –> Python

Stay a Beginner

Bugs – opinionated Jira CLI for those of us who hate Jira

Hyperfocus vs. Perspective as a Staff Engineer

A Step-by-Step Guide to Create Homebrew Taps from GitHub Repos

Idiot Proof Git

When feedback is not a gift

The Laid off Life – merch for laid off folks

The Mass – AI Assisted Short Film

Liar Paradoxing ChatGPT

The Primary Objective of Software Design: Minimizing Total Cognitive Load

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