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AI and junior software engineers

No, AI won’t make junior software engineers obsolete.There’s a common misconception that AI will replace junior developers. But that view overlooks something crucial: potential.Sure, AI can handle ...

Constraints spark innovation

Constraints don't stifle creativity - they ignite it, forcing small companies to create smart solutions and embrace a mindset of relentless innovation.

My horrible experience with a job training programme for Autistic people in Singapore

Content Warning: ableism, infantilisation, inspiration porn I’ve mentioned a few times before that I had an awful experience with a job training programme for Autistic people in Singapore. I talked...

Lessons along the EndBOX journey

About six months ago, during one of my long runs, I had a wild idea: what if I built an OS disk image that booted straight into EndBASIC, bundled it with a Raspberry Pi, a display, a custom 3D-prin...

Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2025 – Lessons Learned Presentations

The videos and PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished our 10th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 7...

Synology Password-less SSH

Secure Synology NAS SSH connections for automated tasks with key pairs.

Visualizing the Internet (2025)

An all-new interactive map of the Internet, showing the evolution of undersea cables and internet exchanges with year-by-year animation and detailed statistics.

Pine Smoke

I’ve just published Pine Smoke, an album of fifty-seven landscape photographs from the west of Tasmania. Pine Smoke This was my third trip to Tasmania, a place I like to visit because the climate a...

Postrolls and Comments

Added some doodads. It was easier than I thought.

How to Navigate the Tariff Circus

Quite accidentally, it looks like we timed our last talk about the stock market pretty darned well. Back in February 2025, the market put the perfect cap on a multi year climb before stepping onto ...

Your fast track to IT automation genius with AWS and Red Hat

The Age of Ultra-nihilism

Wissen führen!

what it takes to be a scientist - Mietvertrag mit Nachweis über die Miethöhe; Bei Untermietvertrag Zustimmung des Eigentümers - vom Arbeitgeber ausgefülltes Formular >Erklärung zum Beschäftigungsve...

What are MCP Servers?

With Fly.io, you can get your app running globally in a matter of minutes, and with MCP servers you can integrate with Claude, VSCode, Cursor and many more AI clients. Try it out for yourself! The ...

The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers (Review)

The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers: From Fast Machines to Fast Codes is a technical and business history of the roughly three-decades when Seymour Cray dominated the development of a class of c...

Whatever happened to sandboxfs?

Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my atte...

Teaching National Security Policy with AI

The videos embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com International Policy students will be spending their careers in an AI-enabled world. We wanted our students to be prepared for it....

2025W23

Thrive in obscurity — Creative success often starts in obscurity, with many creators spending years sharing their work with few or no viewers. To stay motivated, focus on creating what you love ins...

Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)

I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the d...

Cisco Live 2025

Although Cisco Live suffers from zeitgeist mania, with this year being AI, there are still a lot of value from sessions and the tribal excitement of being with your industry peers. Either by outrig...