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ChatGPT was recently released, and there’s been a ton of coverage and hype around it. I finally had a chance to play around with it and wrote down some thoughts about it and plagiarism. Check it out!

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I recently led a refactor of one of our codebases at work (we’re hiring!). It was a fantastic learning experience, and I’m documenting some learnings for future reference. There’s a good chance these aren’t new to you. Most weren’t new to me, but there’s a difference between reading about them and experiencing them.

Prepare for the future; don’t predict it

We designed our initial abstractions by carefully enumerating the future scenarios we’d want to support. We thought we were being responsible and investing in our future.

Hello! It’s been a while 😊

New website

I recently pushed a new version of justincaustin.com, rewritten using Zola instead of React and NextJS.

Things shouldn’t look too different: same fonts, same design. I updated links to have underlines instead of fuchsia text. More standard, I suppose. Sidenotes now snap to the bottom of the relevant paragraph on smaller viewports instead of the top; they also include identifying numbers. I think I’ve made better use of semantic HTML in this new version.

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Hot Takes about Software Engineering (justincaustin.com)

It's just a list of hot takes about software engineering, presented without explanation or justification 😉

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Automate Your Influence (justincaustin.com)

This is a shorter one with some thoughts on how you can scale your influence on and across projects with automation. It touches testing, static analysis, tooling, and documentation.