Why engineers need to be bored. • Links • Dominik Schwind

May 26, 2023

Why engineers need to be bored. #

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February 2026

Stop generating, start thinking #

Very much this. And maybe start caring as well. This might be the main problem: many people just don't care.

A Stupidly Simple PHP Dependency Injection Container #

Until now I just happily used the one provided by the framework I use (or was grumpy that I didn't get to use one, in the case of WordPress things) and never thought too deeply about how DI works. Turns out: it's actually not that complicated if it is very basic.

September 2025

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity #

It's getting worse and worse.

August 2025

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive #

It does introduce hard to notice bugs 10x faster, though

July 2025

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity #

Who would have guessed.

When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

Why Designers Sound Negative (And Why That’s a Good Thing) | Andy Budd #

Same with (good) developers

June 2025

Effortless Software Development with Anna Filina at Nerdearla 2023 #

This is a very good talk

The grindification of hobbies #

Not everything needs to be a job.

February 2025

New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code #

Who would have thought.

January 2024

New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' #

Who would have thought?

Inside .git #

This is very interesting - I looked into the folder before but never in this detail

September 2023

Working from home could slash emissions by half, study finds #

Hah

In a git repository, where do your files live? #

Fascinating

August 2023

80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’ #

Hahahaha. Sorry. But. Hahahaha.

July 2023

It’s not just you, Slack appears to be down #

Let's just not chat?

What do you do when a project ends? We explore creative grief and how to deal with it #

One of the projects I've been working on for the last couple of years is pretty unceremoniously moved to different developers and I'm having very complicated feelings about it. This article captures some of it.