Fifty Bits of Career Advice | Ben Congdon
Fifty bits of career advice, particularly aimed at interns & early-career engineers.| benjamincongdon.me
Fifty bits of career advice, particularly aimed at interns & early-career engineers.| benjamincongdon.me
Reflections on Ben Kuhn’s “Impact, agency, and taste”.| benjamincongdon.me
A review of the June 12, 2025 GCP outage postmortem.| benjamincongdon.me
Discussing the value proposition for one’s career of internal developer tools.| benjamincongdon.me
A scan of recent research papers which discuss novel approaches to training reasoning models.| benjamincongdon.me
A snapshot of the current AI tools & techniques I’ve found useful.| benjamincongdon.me
On developing an involuntary reflex for spotting AI slop| benjamincongdon.me
LLMs which use continuous representations for reasoning steps.| benjamincongdon.me
I lived in the Eastlake neighborhood of Seattle for several years. Eastlake, by its name, sits on the east side of Lake Union. As a runner, I spent many mornings running along the lake, passing by the South Lake Union Streetcar. Each time I ran past the streetcar, what consistently struck me as odd was that the streetcars were almost always empty. I’d see maybe one or two people riding it. I lived within a couple blocks of the streetcar line for years, and never rode it a single time. SLU S...| Ben Congdon
Bikeshedding task tracking systems at work| benjamincongdon.me
Scripts in a system’s critical path often harm stability| benjamincongdon.me
2022 in Review| benjamincongdon.me
Managing sets of small, dependent PRs enables faster review and increased developer velocity| benjamincongdon.me
How to model work that interacts with ambiguity| benjamincongdon.me
To be a well-calibrated predictor, you need to to be wrong (sometimes).| benjamincongdon.me
Observations/photos from a recent NYC trip| benjamincongdon.me
Quantitative and qualitative decision-making techniques| benjamincongdon.me
Prediction markets, as far as the eye can see| benjamincongdon.me
Or, “How to Beat Three Months of Engineering Effort By Telling Your System To Not Call time.Sleep”.| benjamincongdon.me
I wrote a little web app to view Kindle Highlights.| benjamincongdon.me
'Tis the season for prognosticating the upcoming year| benjamincongdon.me
The books I read in 2021 that I most enjoyed.| benjamincongdon.me
Why you may want ditch branches, and use git-branchless.| benjamincongdon.me
Using type embedding to disambiguate semantically different usages of the same type.| benjamincongdon.me
Thoughts on the best features of code review tools I’ve used.| benjamincongdon.me
Github Copilot, more Datasette tools, and links from September| benjamincongdon.me
Using wayback-archiver to prevent link rot in my Obsidian Vault| benjamincongdon.me
B-Trees are not boring, after all| benjamincongdon.me
Building a DIY Air Quality meter on the ESP8266 platform.| benjamincongdon.me
Books and links for July 2021| benjamincongdon.me
Five reasons why I schedule most of the emails I send| benjamincongdon.me
Storing my Takeout backups in S3 Glacier| benjamincongdon.me
The Explore/Exploit cycle, Inadequate Equilibria, and Z3| benjamincongdon.me
Review of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid| benjamincongdon.me
On Douglas Hofstadter’s three-tiered hierarchy of information in messages| benjamincongdon.me
Tampermonkey, Obsidian, recent books, and links| benjamincongdon.me
Looking back on the year shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic.| benjamincongdon.me
The books I read in 2020 that I think were most worth reading.| benjamincongdon.me
Bugs made possible by Scala’s flexibility and terse syntax| benjamincongdon.me
A model for the benefits of a time and mental energy buffer| benjamincongdon.me
Thoughts on the development of prompt engineering in the context of the popularity wave of LLMs.| benjamincongdon.me
The books I read in 2022 that I most enjoyed.| benjamincongdon.me
A brief look at Euclid’s proof| benjamincongdon.me
