How to fix your fear of deployments with Charity Majors | Aviator
Shipping software is the heartbeat of every engineering organization, and fear of deployments is the number one source of tech debt.
How I Vibe Coding?
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
Gemini CLI's Polarizing Release on Hacker News – A Visual Analysis
Gemini released a new developer oriented CLI tool. This tool has a relatively generous free tier of 60 requests per minute, 1000 requests per day. When large language models (LLMs) were initially released, there was a lot of fear that it would automate many wh…
A CRDT-based Messenger in 12 Lines of Bash Using a Synced Folder | Hold The Robot
Put that script inside a folder, share the folder with someone via Syncthing or Dropbox or whatever,
Social anxiety isn't about being liked
There's this popular idea that socially anxious folks are just dying to be liked.
There’s no way that Starcloud can put a data centre in space at $8.2 million in one Starship
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Daniel's Blog · Agent Lineage Evolution: A Novel Framework for Managing LLM Agent Degradation
Agent Lineage Evolution (ALE) is a novel framework that addresses the dual challenge of LLM agent degradation and manual prompt engineering bottlenecks. As LLMs inevitably degrade over extended usage, requiring frequent context restarts, current approaches for…
Taking a Semi-Truck to Buy Salad: My Manifesto for Simple Computing | MyNotes
A manifesto for simple computing. While other fields embraced minimalism, tech became bloated. Why do we use complex, oversized systems for simple jobs? It's like taking a semi-truck to buy salad. This post explores a return to efficient, low-cost, and minimal…
On Large Language Models
Resist the siren song of your local tech oligarchy
How to Fix Your Context
6 tactics for fixing your context and shipping better agents. As Karpathy says, building LLM-powered apps means learning to ‘pack the context windows just right’—smartly deploying tools, managing information, and maintaining context hygiene.
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Great talk by Greg Lukianoff on TED. The presentation is only 12 minutes, which I can recommend anyone to watch.
Why every developer should have a side project: My 10-year journey of failings
In this article, I share my personal journey with side projects: my failures and successes for the past 10 years. I talk about how working on side projects pushed me to learn new skills and has helped me grow beyond coding, as well as showcase my many attempts…
You're Overthinking Web Components | Sanford Tech
Learn how Web Components excel at progressively enhancing server-rendered HTML without worrying about additional dependencies, shadow DOM, or going full SPA.
plo.ug - Infrequent musings
Infrequent musings
AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
Introducing a new, unifying DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction and promises to shed new light on genome function — now available via API.
Simpler XAML in .NET MAUI 10 - .NET Blog
Make your .NET MAUI XAML more consistent and easier to read with global and implicit XML namespaces.
Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable Than Ever
Peter Naur's 1985 theory of programming explains why experience matters more in the age of AI-generated code
Libxml2's 'no security embargoes' policy
Libxml2, an XML parser and toolkit, is an almost perfect example of the successes and failures [...]
Folklore.org: -2000 Lines Of Code
In early 1982, the Lisa software team was trying to buckle down for the big push to ship the software within the next six months. Some of the managers decided that it would be a good idea to track the progress of each individual engineer in terms of the amoun…
Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
Lenovo Legion Go S gets better frame rates running Valve’s free operating system.
docs: define policy forbidding use of AI code generators · qemu/qemu@3d40db0
There has been an explosion of interest in so called AI code generators. Thus far though, this is has not been matched by a broadly accepted legal interpretation of the licensing implications for c...
A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up | Quanta Magazine
A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture.