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Thank You, Every Time: What the Pyxel Team at ESA Taught Me That No Employer Ever Did
My best collaboration to this day was with the open-source Pyxel team at the European Space Agency. It taught me that respect, mutual care and real teamwork exist, and that is the reason I kept going.
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Why This Time Is Different: Following the Chain of Consequences
Past tech downturns corrected themselves through rehiring, training, loud failures and an open door for newcomers. AI-era cost cutting is quietly removing each part of that loop. Here is the chain, followed one link at a time.
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Learning to Build Without a Ladder
How I became a software engineer after the industry stopped making them, and why so many of us are self-taught by necessity, not by choice. Open source became the apprenticeship the job market refused to offer.
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AI as a Laundering Machine: What Software Engineering Taught Me About Accountability
If an employer uses AI to decide whether I'm worth interviewing, we call it innovation. If I use the same technology to write more clearly or work around a disability, we call it cheating. The algorithms haven't changed — only who benefits.