Yesterday
- Rob Bowley summarizes a study from Carnegie Mellon looking on the impact of AI on a bunch of open-source software projects. Like any such study, we shouldn’t take its results as definitive, but there seems enough there to make it a handy data point. The key point is that the AI...
- In early 2025 I wrote about GitClear’s analysis of the impact of GenAI on code quality, based on 2024 data, which showed a significant degradation in code quality and maintainability. I recently came across a new study from Carnegie Mellon, “Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A...
- Building on the foundations of Context Engineering, this post explores advanced strategies to manage context rot, multi-agent coordination, and action space optimization for AI agents....
This week
- A more sustainable way to do business...
- Ghostty is now fiscally sponsored by Hack Club, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit. Fiscal sponsorship is a legal and financial arrangement in which a recognized non-profit extends its tax-exempt status to a project that aligns with its mission. This allows Ghostty to operate as...
- As ever, Mandy Brown casually drops a blog post that makes you examine the everyday meaning of words: One of the imperatives in contemporary, professional work culture is to “grow.” There is often a sense of height or largeness with that imperative, as if growth must be measured...
- Every airline’s cabin baggage regulations are subtly different. 10kg plus a personal item. 10kg INCLUDING a personal item. 8kg plus a personal item. 8kg, plus a personal item of up to 2kg. 8kg plus a laptop, umbrella, walking cane OR a personal item up to 2kg. 23kg as long as...
- Part of the Accepted! series, explaining the upcoming Go changes in simple terms.Introducing errors.AsType — a modern, type-safe alternative to errors.As.Ver. 1.26 • Stdlib • High impactSummaryThe new errors.AsType function is a generic version of errors.As:// go 1.13+ func...
- I’m Robin Sloan, a writer, printer, & manufacturer. The best thing to do here is sign up for my email newsletter: This website doesn’t collect any information about you or your reading. It aspires to the speed and privacy of the printed page. Don’t miss the colophon. Hony...
- What a busy month! Crazy at work, but also a lot of prep went into the last NN1 Dev Club meetup of the year. I’m very proud of how this little meetup idea grew to become a solid community of software engineers from the Northamptonshire area. Luckily, at the beginning of...
- I don’t remember where I heard this story, but it stuck in my mind to this day. It goes something like this: A doorman is guarding the entrance of a very important corporate building. He lets people in and out based on their badges. One day, the owner of the company arrives. As...
- I wrote about the 404s I serve for robots.txt. Now it’s time to look at some of the other common 404s I serve across my static sites (as reported by Netlify’s analytics): /wp-login.php /wp-admin /news/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml /login/ /wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml...
- We recently started experimenting with Copilot code reviews. Do we like it? Is it worth it? How much noise it generates? That’s the topic of today’s text.
- After almost 14 years on the Chrome team, Im moving onto a new chapter. Here is a look back at some of what we built together...
- Two friends of mine (brothers, actually) got laid off from their job at a megachurch here in Austin. We met through a mutual friend that started attending their church. Our kids hang out on Roblox, so we’re connected through dadship and games. They oversaw a lot of the music and...
- Common JavaScript patterns....
- Our Black Friday sale starts now! It will run now through Friday, December 5th. Level up your design systems game and save with our biggest sale of the year: MEGA BUNDLE: save 45% & get all courses for $1000! Save […]...
- I’ve been part of the creation of five enterprise architecture offices in my life. Some I’ve led, others I’ve simply been part of. If you start up an enterprise architecture office, you have two types of strategies people use. Some people start by mapping everything that exists,...
Last week
- The whole team is in a panic. Doug is frantically reviewing paperwork, and Ellis is running around with his hands in the air. “Our cloud bill is out of control,” cries Doug. “Yikes,” Ellis shouts. “An extra fifty thousand dollars every month.” “That’s odd,” one of the developers...
- Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, interviewed Jony Ive at Stripe Sessions. Below are my notes from watching the interview. I thought about packaging these up into a more coherent narrative, but I just don’t have the interest. However, I do want to keep these notes for possible...
- TL;DR: our Black Friday sale starts this Friday November 28th and runs through Friday December 5th. We’ll be offering two deals: A MEGA BUNDLE with all of our courses for $1000 and a Subatomic + Atomic Design Bundle for $500. […]...
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