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@kepano Amazing work, thank you!

Working solo right now and I've really missed the mentoring that I used to do when I had a team. I've been planning to live stream coding sessions to scratch this itch, and have been practicing that to an audience of 0.

It's kind of amazing how productive I've been when I'm vocalizing my thought process to this imaginary audience.

I've dubbed it rubber duck live streaming and it's my new go to when I'm stuck on something.

Jesse 6d ago

I'm not completely satisfied with this, but I've been mulling over this post for too long and needed to get it on the page.

My thoughts on #ai in software engineering, but hopefully a slightly different approach that's helpful to someone out there.

https://til.io/posts/2026/03/16/how-im-navigating-an-uncertain-future/

How I'm Navigating an Uncertain Future

Some general thoughts on navigating an unsettling time where it's hard to know what is real.

til.io / jesse tolj

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Jesse Mar 12

@michaelflanagan That will be incredibly useful for my workflow and I never would have thought of that. Thank you for sharing!

Jesse Feb 19

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Terry Godier Feb 7

@manton all of my chips are on being a real human, writing code by hand, with experience and strong opinions. The era of personal software I think is here. And that is both personal as in folks will make their own, but also to be a person behind the software. there’s never been a more important time to have beliefs and make opinionated software that a robot wouldn’t.

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Jesse Feb 12

@Gargron Beautiful! It's making me want to dust off my old Beaulieu and find some film ❤️ .

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Jesse Feb 11

@lyda I had a very good experience migrating a pretty high traffic app to it from Nginx/FPM. And yes, it’s now been brought into the PHP foundation so likely to be well supported for the long term.

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Jesse Feb 6

@tg Good luck, and congrats on building something so many people are interested in!

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Jesse Feb 6

@tg I've gotten pretty fast with MailMate and some custom vim-ish key mappings - https://freron.com

MailMate

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Jesse Feb 2

@Crell Thanks for this. I think it's right and just to call out the defeatism and complacency. It's like a virus ripping through our industry.

I'm using my (apparently vestigial) brain to try to build a sustainable business this year, and am fortunate to have autonomy around how I use these tools until my runway dwindles.

I'm sure your dance card will be very full, but I'll be at PHPTEK this year and would love to talk to about this. I'm hope my first TEK won't feel like an In Memoriam.