Today
- Creating a subset of Go that translates to C was never my end goal. I liked writing C code with Go, but without the standard library it felt pretty limited. So, the next logical step was to port Go's stdlib to C.Of course, this isn't something I could do all at once. I started...
- Feed diversity overhaul, domain and topic affinity, inline reactions, and exact keyword matching....
- Availability has dropped to one nine (~90% – !!), partly due to not being able to handle increased traffic from AI coding agents. There’s also no CEO and an apparent lack of direction....
- The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …
- Back in 1985, computer scientist Peter Naur wrote “Programming as Theory Building”. According to Naur - and I agree with him - the core output of software engineers is not the program itself, but the theory of how the program works. In other words, the knowledge inside the...
- I have no connection to the authors of the Superpowers plugin for Claude Code, but I have been raving about it to everyone I talk to. Using Claude Code with Superpowers is so much more productive and the features it builds are so much more correct than with stock Claude Code. I...
- I was a guest on Lenny Rachitsky’s podcast, in a new episode titled An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation …
Yesterday
- Marcin Wichary brings attention to this lovely dialog in ClarisWorks from 1997: He quips: this breaks the rule of button copy being fully comprehensible without having to read the surrounding strings first, perhaps most well-known as the “avoid «click here»” rule. Never...
- Yesterday we talked about how cheap code is fueling an era of idiosyncratic tooling, and previously we’ve talked about the rise of spec driven development. In that second piece, we ran through some of the initial examples of spec driven development with agents: By far, the...
- As we see LLMs churn out scads of code, folks have increasingly turned to Cognitive Debt as a metaphor for capturing how a team can lose understanding of what a system does. Margaret-Anne Storey thinks a good way of thinking about these problems is to consider three layers of...
- Last month Birgitta Böckeler wrote some initial thoughts about the recently developed notion of Harness Engineering. She's been researching and thinking more about this in the weeks since and has now written a thoughtful mental model for understanding harness engineering that we...
- Dependencies are a huge supply chain security risk; the more of them you have, and the more often you update, the bigger the attack surface....
- This is the third chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon. Thank you! In the previous chapter you learned how to execute a variety of queries on the products...
- CircleCI’s 2026 State of Software Delivery report has two findings that are already travelling: AI is meaningfully boosting software delivery, but only 1 in 20 teams are capturing that benefit. Both claims are more uncertain than the report suggests, for different reasons. What...
- Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy an overpriced toy instead of a “real computer”? Here’s how I switched to the Mac, and haven’t looked back… despite some recent reservations. My family’s first real computer was a...
This week
- AI coding assistants respond to whoever is prompting, and the quality of what they produce depends on how well the prompter articulates team standards. Rahul Garg proposes treating the instructions that govern AI interactions (generation, refactoring, security, review) as...
- So I got an email earlier, which you’ll find out about in my next post, which made me think “hey, the reply to this would make a great blog post”, and then I thought “…and it would be even better if people could add their own comments to it”, and so I plugged in the rather...
- One of the folks who joined my presenter workshop last week (which was awesome, by the way!) emailed me this morning with a follow-up question: I first saw you speak at DDD South-West in Bristol (it was the “There’s No Such Thing as Plain Text” talk), and what stuck with me was...
- I originally posted this as a Twitter thread in March 2018. It went viral, probably because Charles Stross quote-tweeted it with the comment “This thread. You read!” - yes, _that _Charles Stross. 😮 It was at https://twitter.com/i/web/status/976852582084808704, and I bookmarked...
- What a month! After losing a job at the end of January, I started looking for a new one straight away. Seeking a new job nowadays is very different from how it used to be. Very long, multi-step and mentally draining processes are the new norm. The recent explosion of AI tools...
- I used to post a lot of stuff on Twitter when it was good. It’s all still on there somewhere, and I have archives of it all, but I’m reposting this thread, which I originally wrote back in 2019. Partly because I dug it out of some archives tonight and thought “hey, that’s not...
- Jason Gorman writes about the word “continuous” and its place in making software. We think of making software in stages (and we often assign roles to ourselves and other people based on these stages): the design phase, the coding phase, the testing phase, the integration phase,...
- I wrote yesterday about some visual changes I’d noticed in Apple’s 26.4 series of OSs. Today I noticed that I’d missed a couple of real doozies, both related to the new mega-corners in macOS Tahoe. First up, Apple fixed the corner resizing area! It’s not surprising that this is...
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