Welcome to issue 111 of Hacker Bits!
We have a great selection of articles this month covering career development, microcode hacking, breaking AES, “normal” engineers, Bank Python, AI blindspots, WebAuthn, and so much more!
As always, please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback! 🙂
– Ray and Maureen
Learn more
- Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP by Dave Kellogg
- Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation by Steven Halim
- Zen and the Art of Microcode Hacking by Google
- Learn How to Break AES by David Wong
- The Internals of PostgreSQL by Hironobu Suzuki
Work less
- “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams by Charity Majors
- Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete by Curiositry
- Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code by Simon Willison
- An oral history of Bank Python by Cal Paterson
- You might not need Redis by Victor Blomqvist
Stay current
- AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I’ve noticed while AI coding
- Career Advice in 2025 by Will Larson
- Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI by Nickie Louise
- Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? by Gergely Orosz
- A Tour of WebAuthn by Adam Langley
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