Péter Szász
@peterszasz.com
Engineering leader, writing https://peterszasz.com
We’re live with the first episode of the third season of The Retrospective, a podcast for engineering leaders!
S3:E01 - Task Relevant Maturity
In this episode of the Retrospective podcast, Jeremy and Peter kick off the third season by discussing the concept of task relevant maturity in engineering leadership. They explore the common challeng...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We’re live with the first episode of the third season of The Retrospective, a podcast for engineering leaders!
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Just stumbled on this brutal gutpunch of a video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSq6...
I've trained The Algorithm to show me stuff like this— randos working on projects and showing them to you? I've never seen this channel but I've seen a dozen like it. Dude fixes radios. The video is not about radios.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSq6...
I've trained The Algorithm to show me stuff like this— randos working on projects and showing them to you? I've never seen this channel but I've seen a dozen like it. Dude fixes radios. The video is not about radios.
Message to My American Viewers
YouTube video by Jim's Radio Shop
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March 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Just stumbled on this brutal gutpunch of a video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSq6...
I've trained The Algorithm to show me stuff like this— randos working on projects and showing them to you? I've never seen this channel but I've seen a dozen like it. Dude fixes radios. The video is not about radios.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSq6...
I've trained The Algorithm to show me stuff like this— randos working on projects and showing them to you? I've never seen this channel but I've seen a dozen like it. Dude fixes radios. The video is not about radios.
March 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A “poloska”, mint hasonlat emberekre egy eléggé egyirányú utca, aminek ez van a végén: www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
Jó utat, miniszterelnök úr!
Jó utat, miniszterelnök úr!
Rwanda jails man who preached genocide of Tutsi 'cockroaches'
A former Rwandan politician who described Tutsis as
www.bbc.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A “poloska”, mint hasonlat emberekre egy eléggé egyirányú utca, aminek ez van a végén: www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
Jó utat, miniszterelnök úr!
Jó utat, miniszterelnök úr!
"A szolgáltatás 2025. március 31-én 24:00 -kor megszűnik, 13 641 979 fénykép törlésre kerül."
RIP Indafoto.hu, egy nagyon jó időszak volt a 2007-2008 körüli webkettes pezsgés blog.hu és Inda vonalon, sok klassz emberrel tudtunk nagy dolgokat csinálni. (Meg persze csomót hibáztunk és tanultunk.)
RIP Indafoto.hu, egy nagyon jó időszak volt a 2007-2008 körüli webkettes pezsgés blog.hu és Inda vonalon, sok klassz emberrel tudtunk nagy dolgokat csinálni. (Meg persze csomót hibáztunk és tanultunk.)
Indafotó címlap
Indafoto.hu
March 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"A szolgáltatás 2025. március 31-én 24:00 -kor megszűnik, 13 641 979 fénykép törlésre kerül."
RIP Indafoto.hu, egy nagyon jó időszak volt a 2007-2008 körüli webkettes pezsgés blog.hu és Inda vonalon, sok klassz emberrel tudtunk nagy dolgokat csinálni. (Meg persze csomót hibáztunk és tanultunk.)
RIP Indafoto.hu, egy nagyon jó időszak volt a 2007-2008 körüli webkettes pezsgés blog.hu és Inda vonalon, sok klassz emberrel tudtunk nagy dolgokat csinálni. (Meg persze csomót hibáztunk és tanultunk.)
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What a great post clearly showing the value of middle management! My favourite quote from the book it’s based on is a powerful analogy:
“Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.”
“Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.”
Katie Leonard (one of our eng managers) recently wrote a 🔥killer🔥 piece on the current obsession with cutting middle management in the name of "efficiency".
"Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...
"Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...
Cutting Middle Management Is Costing Your Capacity for Change
Over the last year, the tech industry has seen a wave of layoffs targeting middle management. Executives at companies like Meta, Shopify, and Amazon have framed this as a push toward efficiency.
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March 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
What a great post clearly showing the value of middle management! My favourite quote from the book it’s based on is a powerful analogy:
“Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.”
“Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.”
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Demi Moore losing to Mikey Madison should be a post-credits scene to The Substance.
March 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Demi Moore losing to Mikey Madison should be a post-credits scene to The Substance.
Details of the biggest crypto hack ever, building trust across cultures, Google Apps Script, Claude Code, and other topics in my latest newsletter - what a busy week this was! peterszasz.com/week-9-2025-...
Week 9, 2025 - Trust Issues
I had an overdue catch-up call with a friend this week. He shared experiences of frustration and shock from a job he recently left. Decades-old codebase, people who built or even understand it long go...
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February 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Details of the biggest crypto hack ever, building trust across cultures, Google Apps Script, Claude Code, and other topics in my latest newsletter - what a busy week this was! peterszasz.com/week-9-2025-...
These are amazing!
I am incredibly grateful to have friends like this. 💕 Thanks again, Liz & Corey.
And I shudder to think back to those days now, and where I might be if I hadn't figured that out when I did.
(Including a few more of my personal household tips for your entertainment. 🥰)
And I shudder to think back to those days now, and where I might be if I hadn't figured that out when I did.
(Including a few more of my personal household tips for your entertainment. 🥰)
February 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
These are amazing!
Private Equity destroys a(nother) media property they don’t understand or care about. www.linkedin.com/posts/johndb...
John Biggs on LinkedIn: TechCrunch is now fully gutted. No institutional memory and they're about…
TechCrunch is now fully gutted. No institutional memory and they're about to be part of Yahoo News and have their branding stripped. The events team is gone…
www.linkedin.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Private Equity destroys a(nother) media property they don’t understand or care about. www.linkedin.com/posts/johndb...
Ouch, this is going to wreak havoc amongst some of the smaller e-signature products.
That Google Docs quietly shipped this (e-signature) - with no extra charge for Workspace users - is a pretty big deal.
Sure, it will not be as extensive as some more advanced e-signing solutions. But it further commoditizes this space - and is sufficient for small businesses.
Sure, it will not be as extensive as some more advanced e-signing solutions. But it further commoditizes this space - and is sufficient for small businesses.
February 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Ouch, this is going to wreak havoc amongst some of the smaller e-signature products.
PSA: If you run a Ghost blog, turn on spam protection for signups as soon as possible. Details here: ghost.org/changelog/si... There's an ongoing spam attack with email-to-sms domains, see my Mailgun dashboard, and how after 2 weeks of regular deliveries the traffic (and my usage invoice) shoots up.
February 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
PSA: If you run a Ghost blog, turn on spam protection for signups as soon as possible. Details here: ghost.org/changelog/si... There's an ongoing spam attack with email-to-sms domains, see my Mailgun dashboard, and how after 2 weeks of regular deliveries the traffic (and my usage invoice) shoots up.
This is the most encouraging thing I heard since a while. The emperor’s wardrobe depends on the viewer’s eyes.
February 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This is the most encouraging thing I heard since a while. The emperor’s wardrobe depends on the viewer’s eyes.
Well, it’s groundhog day, again.
February 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Well, it’s groundhog day, again.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Ouch. Deepseek had a publicly accessible ClickHouse database, no password or anything, out in the open, including sensitive data like chat history. www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-res...
Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History | Wiz Blog
A publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data. The exposure includes over a million lines of log str...
www.wiz.io
January 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Ouch. Deepseek had a publicly accessible ClickHouse database, no password or anything, out in the open, including sensitive data like chat history. www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-res...
What a smug spit on the graves of the heroes who died 80th years before the day this was issued, fighting to liberate the Auschwitz concentration camps.
Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
January 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
What a smug spit on the graves of the heroes who died 80th years before the day this was issued, fighting to liberate the Auschwitz concentration camps.
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We're bringing Pebble back!
Eight years later, you still can't beat a Pebble
repebble.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Using others’ intellectual work without permission, outrageous! How dare they! Oh wait
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
www.ft.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Using others’ intellectual work without permission, outrageous! How dare they! Oh wait
It’s crazy what’s going on in the Garmin sportwatch world: they updated an essential file that gets downloaded to devices at every sync (not sw update, just a simple activity or similar sync!) and throws the device into a reboot loop, rendering it unusable. 🧵
January 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It’s crazy what’s going on in the Garmin sportwatch world: they updated an essential file that gets downloaded to devices at every sync (not sw update, just a simple activity or similar sync!) and throws the device into a reboot loop, rendering it unusable. 🧵
That’s a funny experiment indeed.
January 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
That’s a funny experiment indeed.
Yeah this is equally scary and ridiculous. At one point yesterday the chain of thought went quite far for me before the handler entered the room and executed the traitor.
January 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Yeah this is equally scary and ridiculous. At one point yesterday the chain of thought went quite far for me before the handler entered the room and executed the traitor.
Based on what I saw, I love Linear. However, if you want your teams to go faster, make sure you understand first what’s holding them back now. There’s a good chance it’s not (just) the tool they use. And they probably know it already, and would tell happily if someone asked them.
Previously did a deepdive on Linear - this was when I noticed practically all fast-growing startups use them
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/linear
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/linear
The Story of Linear as told by its CTO
Tuomas Artman went from Big Tech to startup co-founder. He shares building of Linear, the working culture and learnings from Big Tech
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January 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Based on what I saw, I love Linear. However, if you want your teams to go faster, make sure you understand first what’s holding them back now. There’s a good chance it’s not (just) the tool they use. And they probably know it already, and would tell happily if someone asked them.
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Seeing all the political news coming from the US today (wrt the attack on trans & nonbinary people), my mind flashed to the image of one of the promotional posters for Princess Mononoke that I saw as a child back in 1997 with the copy 「生きろ。」 ("Live."). (The copy is written as an imperative.)
January 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Seeing all the political news coming from the US today (wrt the attack on trans & nonbinary people), my mind flashed to the image of one of the promotional posters for Princess Mononoke that I saw as a child back in 1997 with the copy 「生きろ。」 ("Live."). (The copy is written as an imperative.)