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Reflecting on Software Engineering Handbook
A brutally honest postmortem on why software engineering handbook sales flopped, marketing misfired, and the unexpected lessons learned.
LLM text chat is everywhere. Who’s optimizing its UX?
When it comes to programming LLM tools, I've seen modes of interaction in the form of code completion, patch application, improvement suggestions, and...
Why We Think
Special thanks to John Schulman for a lot of super valuable feedback and direct edits on this post. Test time compute (Graves et al. 2016, Ling, et al. 2017, Cobbe et al. 2021) and Chain-of-thought (CoT) (Wei et al. 2022, Nye et al. 2021), have led to signific…
I Yelled My MVP Idea and Got a FastAPI Backend in 3 Minutes
I build tools to fix my own life — then write about the code, the crashes, and what actually worked. No growth hacks. No platitudes. Just experiments, LLMs, and digital duct tape.
Why Every Generation Thinks It’s the Last One to Feel Real Life
This post contains affiliate links Memory plays tricks, but maybe the truth is deeper than that. The boy stares at an old VHS tape like it’s...
You should not write library style code! (probably) – Wilsons Blog
When I really got into writing code (big projects, or for work), I really started using libraries. For so many problems, there was already a library that would help me with it. From doing maths fast with numpy to padding strings with left-pad, there was almost…
RxJourney
The Journey of an Intern Pharmacist
What does the end of mathematics look like?
A blog containing essays, of varying cogency, about various things that my mind have wandered to.
Bad Type Patterns - The Duplicate duck
Why aren’t people writing more types? Perhaps it’s because the intermediate and expert developers deleted the patterns that didn’t work and left no trace for...
Agent Recursion · Choly's Blog
Sun, May 18, 2025
What would happen if I blocked big search?
The major search engines are showing slop summaries first and websites second. They link to sites sometimes, but they’d much prefer searchers stay on the results page and ask followup questions. Engagement numbers and all that. These companies run mass content…
Building my childhood dream PC
May 1, 2025
Manage your SQL Server database lifecycle with .NET Aspire and the SQL Database Projects hosting extension
.NET Aspire provides tools, templates, and packages to help you build observable, production-ready apps. Delivered through NuGet packages, .NET Aspire simplifies common challenges in modern app development. Today's apps often rely on multiple services like dat…
Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better
Spaced repetition systems are a well-known way to efficiently learn material. Recent innovations have applied machine learning to greatly improve their scheduling.
Building my childhood dream PC
May 1, 2025
If nothing is curated, how do we find things?
Bjork is currently promoting a new concert film being released called . She's been releasing new photoshoots and interviews almost every day for the past two...
Try AniSora: The Ultimate Anime Video Generation Model
Index-AniSora is the most powerful open-source animated video generation model presented by Bilibili. It enables one-click creation of video shots across diverse anime styles including series episodes, Chinese original animations, manga adaptations, VTuber con…
Mystical
O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
Privacy is dead: For multiple months, any O2 customer has had their location exposed to call initiators without their knowledge.
"Mario Kart 64" decompilation project reaches 100% completion
Within the very same week, and in just a span of a few days, we got not one, but two Mario games decompiled, with the first one this week being the very first Gamecube game to get a completed decompilation project with "Mario Party 4", and now another great Ma…
"We would be less confidential than Google" – Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
If passed, new rules would require VPNs and messaging apps to identify and retain users' data
why i don’t want kids - Tasshin
this is an essay about why i, Tasshin Fogleman, do not want kids.
Reverse Engineering the Renpho App
I use Home Assistant to automate my home. This mostly involves turning lights and music on and off but I really like the idea of the dashboard being a sort of hub for my abode.
Vibe coding is metaprogramming - foobuzz
I originally wanted to write 2 distinct articles, but realized that they shared the same underlying idea: "Vibe coding", the act of talking to an LLM / LLM-based AI agent to code a full project without writing a line of code manually, is no more than a metapro…
Dev Therapy, part 4: Tending the narrative gardens · Melatonin
Time to get the story straight.
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I Would Love to Work With You
Like so many, I was laid off from Microsoft on May 13, 2025. Never good news, but life moves on and I'm still fired up to do fun things with the right group of people.
Compiling OCaml to the TI-84+ CE Calculator
In this post, I’ll explain how I compiled an OCaml program to run on a TI-84+ CE calculator. 🐪
The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
So! Suppose you’re an intrepid engineer in a nascent Developer Productivity team. Your engineering organization has decided that it wants to move towards a monorepo. You’ve heard the stories told of Google, Meta, Uber - each a large technology company with dev…