Doug Hatcher

Doug Hatcher

Enterprise architecture and tech junkie

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So those DM scammers that steal your friends profiles are getting more clever - they download your friends chat history first and ask the AI to read it and continue the conversation for a while so they can more easily slip in undetected and lead you to the spot

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I’m a VS Code guy, and Copilot in Agent mode has pretty much changed how I do most engineering work. Today I’ve been playing with Excel’s Copilot mode, and it’s pretty clear that vibe spreadsheeting and powerpointing will be Microsoft’s new ecosystem lock-in play

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The hardest thing about having a job in 2025 is getting assigned one of the nicest Macbook Pros money can buy and dumping layers and layers of MDM and IT management solutions on it so it becomes a glorified paperweight

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Generally web developers should be learning node and react, but If you’re a PHP developer then yes I imagine it is worth learning. Between Magento and Adobe Commerce PaaS that codebase will be in the wild for decades to come. The framework itself is intense and all, but it’s well thought out and tries to use it’s underlining language. So if you’re serious about learning the language it can be a good place to see interesting patterns and learn to troubleshoot big codebases.

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