Ember.js consultant, author of Rock and Roll with Ember.js: balinterdi.com/rock-and-roll…… . Hiker, enthusiastic chess player, homo ludens. #chesspunks
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Mar 19
The "How to Become an Effective Software Engineer" book is out 🎉
The traits, tips and tricks I've collected in 25 years as a software engineer, distilled🦉
Please share this to reach more developers early in their careers. Thank you ❤️
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Balint Erdi retweeted
Feb 3
⚠️ AI agent skills are becoming a new attack surface and most teams aren’t prepared.
In OpenClaw, “skills” are treated as documentation, but in reality, they can act as installers. And attackers are already exploiting that.
@jmeller, VP & Security Strategist @1Password, found that a top-downloaded skill in a popular registry was being used to deliver macOS infostealing malware.
This is why the future of agentic AI needs identity and access controls that are time-bound, revocable, and attributable.
Must-read 👉 bit.ly/3OkmCgn
#AIsecurity #AgenticAI #CyberSecurity #IdentitySecurity #1Password
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Feb 2
A small excerpt from my upcoming book, "How to Become an Effective Software Engineer".
See link in the comments below.
ALT Working software is what we produce, and tools are the means to produce it. It doesn’t matter how well you know what leads to quality software – at the end of the day, you have to put pen to paper (or, in our case, fingers to the keyboard), and crank out code, make commits, find bugs, and deploy your work. It’s impossible to underestimate the importance of becoming really good with your everyday tools, as even getting marginally better with them pays huge dividends.
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Jan 27
I'm happy to report that The How to Become an Effective Software Engineer book now has a landing page, and you can download a very generous sample: effective-software-engineeri…
ALT Above-the-fold screenshot of the How to Become an Effective Software Engineer book's landing page.
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31 Oct 2025
The "How To Become an Effective Software Engineer" book is coming along nicely, and should be out this year.
Sign up here: fullstack-consulting-llc.kit…
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1 Oct 2025
I must have spent days of my life typing `document.querySelector(All)` in browser consoles only to realize I can simply type `$(selector)` and `$$(selector)`
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2 Sep 2025
Part 2 of the Teamtailor Embroider series goes through all the things we did to make static invocation possible in our large Ember app.
I hope you enjoy reading it and that you might learn something you can apply.
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1 Aug 2025
We just published the first blog post in a series on how we switched to Embroider at Teamtailor, and the huge dividends it paid: career.teamtailor.com/posts/…
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18 Jul 2025
Such a great article on LessWrong (and one of the few ones I mostly understand 😅) about why ChatGPT is a sycophant.
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Balint Erdi retweeted
24 Jun 2025
Here’s the full lineup for this edition of Ember Europe: starting off with our @real_ate , then @davidtaylorhq , and Linds McElroy; followed by open Q&A. It’s happening on July 3 at 19:00 CEST. Don’t let it slip through your fingers. RSVP details down here 👇🏼
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Balint Erdi retweeted
25 Jun 2025
We're giving away 3 on-site tickets in our scholarship program.
If you contributed to Ember (through code, documentation, community support, etc.) and would benefit from financial help to attend, please write a message to mail@emberfest.eu
The deadline is July 5th 00:00 CEST.
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Balint Erdi retweeted
2 Jun 2025
Stoked to announce two more speakers:
Krystan Huffmenne is a member of the Ember Data and TypeScript core teams.
Preston Sego (@nullvoxpopuli) is an author and contributor to several add-ons and a member of the Ember Tooling core team.
Join us: emberfest.eu
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Balint Erdi retweeted
25 Mar 2025
Today we celebrate the 111th birthday of Norman Borlaug. The man who fed the world.
Borlaug developed high-yield, disease-resistant wheat that sparked the Green Revolution, saving over a billion lives from hunger.
Happy Birthday, Norman Borlaug - hero of humanity.
21 Jan 2025
I’m a scientist.
But even among scientists, few can claim what Norman Borlaug did:
He’s credited with saving a billion people from starvation.
How? By changing the way we grow food forever.
Here’s the story of the man
behind the Green Revolution 🧵: 1/
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7 Mar 2025
HomeExchange is one of the services I use and recommend wholeheartedly
I've been able to travel with my family to others' homes and save a lot of money on accommodation. Not to mention you stay at a nice home with all its benefits instead of hotel rooms.
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25 Feb 2025
It occurred to me that I couldn't exactly define what arrogance is.
I then came up with this: one is arrogant insofar as they think the only way to do something (or the only way to think about something) is the way they do it.
Is this a good definition?
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6 Feb 2025
Here is rule #13 from the tentative "How To Become an Effective Software Engineer" book.
I learned a ton from pair programming and have had a lot of fun, too:
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23 Jan 2025
This one was above-average hard to write but it's probably one of the most important rules. I have the impression soft skills are underrated in lots of engineering organizations, even though communication is a killer soft-skill to wield.
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1 Jan 2025
I'm aware this might not be the perfect time to post this but what's the best time to take up my writing habit again if not the first day of the year?
Hope you enjoy it, and have a great year, everyone!
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12 Dec 2024
I have an amazing co-worker with whom we do sync-ups. I think I drive him up the wall with coming up with rhyming suggestions:
- Sync-up at nine, is that fine?
- Sync-up at ten, ça va bien?
- Sync-up at eleven, let's get even.
(The 9 o'clock one didn't happen yet.)
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