This week
- How many millions of times have you seen this pattern in Go where a variable is pre-created just to make a pointer to it down the line? There is a high chance your codebase includes a utility to do that. // Something like this a := 123 aPtr := &a // Or like this func Pointer[T...
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. February 23, 2026 My path through programming has largely involved strategic avoidance: of complexity, fragility, excessive moving...
Last week
- Write transactions can lead to lock starvation and serious performance degradation when using SQLite with SQLx, the popular async Rust SQL library. In retrospect, I feel like this should have been obvious, but it took a little more staring at suspiciously consistent "slow...
- I introduced Showboat a week ago—my CLI tool that helps coding agents create Markdown documents that demonstrate the code that they have created. I’ve been finding new ways to use …
Two weeks ago
- You don’t need more performance heroes on your engineering team. Make the fast path the easy path....
- Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. — Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent? Conway's law appears true if you observe organizations and systems as they are, but the...
- Bill Hoffman, the original creator of the CMake language held a presentation at CppCon. At approximately 49 minutes in he starts talking about future plans for dependency management. He says, and I now quote him directly, that "in this future I envision", one should be able to...
- There’s a jargon-filled headline for you! Everyone’s building sandboxes for running untrusted code right now, and Pydantic’s latest attempt, Monty, provides a custom Python-like language (a subset of Python) in …
- It’s been a month since I launched whenwords, and since then there’s been a flurry of experiments with spec driven development (SDD): using coding agents to implement software using only a detailed text spec and a collection of conformance tests. Github Could Use a ‘Docs Review’...
- I upgraded kentcdodds.com from Remix v2 to React Router v7 in a day with over 17k lines of code changed. Here's how I did it....
About a month ago
- I’ve been exploring Go for building small, fast and self-contained binary applications recently. I’m enjoying how there’s generally one obvious way to do things and the resulting code is boring …
- 2/4/2026 I like Rust. It's versatile enough that it can be used for application and systems programming. It has the best tooling of any language I've seen. It has a fairly pleasant type system. And I think most importantly it does a great job in bringing higher level language...
- Some years ago I worked with a scale-up that was really focused on the way they handled data in their product. They extensively argued over data language, had value objects everywhere, explicit models and, even hexagonal architecture. It was a cool place to work, with a lot of...
- For the last few months, I have been developing a new reporting application. Early on, I decided to add a –dry-run option to the run command. This turned out to be quite useful – I have used it many times … Continue reading →...
- Go has several ways of sending requests, including some convenient methods such as:http.Get()http.Head()http.Post()http.PostForm()However, these don’t let you add headers to requests! If you need customization of the HTTP method or headers, you need to use...
- Basic Usage of time.Sleep()You can use time.Sleep() to pause your program for a predetermined amount of time, similar to most programming languages.First, you should know that the time package has useful constants that allow you to conveniently specify time in units.1 2 3 4 5 6...
about 1 month ago
- Every six months or so I read a post on sites like Hackernews that the enterprise service bus concept is dead and that it was a horrible concept to begin with. Yet I personally have great experiences with them, even in large, messy enterprise landscapes. I would go even further...
- Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Mastra 1.0 in stable. Back in November, we cut our first 1.0 beta. Since then, hundreds of teams have been runni......
- Mastra organizes storage into five specialized domains, each responsible for one type of data: memory, workflows, scores, observability, and agents. Mastra now ......
about 2 months ago
- A few months ago, users started reporting that Ghostty was consuming absurd amounts of memory, with one user reporting 37 GB after 10 days of uptime. Today, I'm happy to say the fix has been found and merged. This post is an overview of what caused the leak, a look at some...
- Mcp-cli is a lightweight CLI that allows dynamic discovery of MCP, reducing token consumption while making tool interactions more efficient for AI coding agents....
- AI did not kill code review. It made the burden of proof explicit. Ship changes with evidence like manual verification and automated tests, then use review for risk, intent, and accountability....
- Go 1.26 is coming out in February, so it's a good time to explore what's new. The official release notes are pretty dry, so I prepared an interactive version with lots of examples showing what has changed and what the new behavior is.Read on and see!new(expr) • Type-safe error...
- The setup for my notes blog looks like this: Content is plain-text markdown files (synced via Dropbox, editable in iA Writer on my Mac, iPad, or iPhone) Codebase is on GitHub Builds are triggered in Netlify by a Shortcut I try to catch spelling issues and what not before I...
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