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I Was Targeted by Two Sophisticated LinkedIn Pig Butchering Scams in the Same Week

Over the past few months, I’ve been increasing my visibility — more blogging, more conversation on LinkedIn, and generally showing up again after some time off. It was paying off: more profile views, more engagement, more conversations.

With additional visibility to actual people, that same visibility increased for scammers. They’ve always been part of life, but this time they showed up looking polished, professional, and perhaps even dangerously convincing.

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Choosing the Wrong Tool Isn't the Tool's Fault

I originally wrote a version of this for Caffeinated Softworks, but the topic struck close enough to home that I wanted to share an edited version of it here too.

A recent piece titled “Why Developers are Quietly Quitting Golang” has been making the rounds. It references a Medium post where a startup founder says that choosing Go (Golang) was “the biggest mistake of [their] life.”

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