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Issue #336  (The Future of Coding Careers) 07/21/25

Tools & Apps

Bear — A Markdown-based notes app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad with features like text, photos, tables, todo lists, tags for organizing, export to different formats, and lots more.

HuntYourTribe — An online platform to showcase your professional identity, just pick your own custom subdomain then list your skills, projects, links to articles, achievements, all in a clean interface.

DuetMail — An AI-powered Gmail assistant that helps with personalized drafts, offers instant summaries, action items, intelligent reminders, smart categorization, so you can save 3+ hours per week.

Refind — Brain food, delivered daily. Every day the team at Refind analyzes thousands of articles and sends you only the best, tailored to your interests. Loved by 540,000+ curious minds.    sponsor  

Lofizen — A lofi music and ambient sounds web app for focus that also includes some productivity features like todo lists, notes, linked lists, etc.

Wispr Flow — A Mac, Windows, or iOS app for doing voice dictation, enabling seamless speech-to-text capabilities in every app on your iPhone or computer.

pikr — An AI-powered newsletter reader for Gmail that optionally pushes AI summaries to your Notion account, while keeping the rest of your email private and secure.

Articles & Resources

The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful — The hope, despite the threat of AI, is summed up in the following sentence: "If we don’t have to spend five years of our early careers doing repetitive tasks, that isn’t a threat, it’s a massive opportunity. It’s an acceleration of our potential."

Stop Scheduling Status Update “Check-Ins” — 56% of workers say scheduling a meeting is the only way to get information. With Jira, use AI to automatically add work from Slack, create subtasks, or attach relevant resources. So instead of scheduling a meeting, check the status in Jira. Easy.     sponsor  

Surviving Code Interviews — Some useful viewpoints from the interviewer's perspective that might help potential candidates with interview prep, test day, and what happens after your test.

Write to Escape Your Default Setting — If you don't like writing past doing basic note-taking and jotting ideas down, this article might inspire you to take your writing a little further.

Why a “Twofer” Doesn’t Work as a Goal — This encourages you to think of your goals in terms of unified actions that can be summarized in one though or a single word.

The Work Is Never Just “The Work” — From January 2022, a deep dive on why projects take longer than you expect, along with a recommended framework on how to improve estimations.

The Next Act – A Complete Guide to Career Change, Professional Reinvention, and Finding Work That Matters — An excerpt from a recently released book by Michael Feeley, who is a professional career and life coach, on the subject of career change.

Suggestions?

Have a suggestion for a productivity-related tool, article, or other resource? Send me a direct message via X or chat via Bluesky and I’ll consider including it in a future issue.

Stay productive!

Louis
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