Are we trading our hard-earned intelligence for convenience?
Productivity and skill erosion in the age of AI
Three unrelated thoughts about working with LLMs
I’ve had these on my mind for a while and wanted to get them into text. Firstly for the benefit of my own thinking, and also so that I’ve got something to direct people to the next time I have a conversation about it. firstname.lastname at gmail dot com if you…
Tree Versus DAG Bindings
Written by Dominik Pantůček on 2025-07-17
Are we alone?
Scalability is not performance
Scalability is sometimes confused with performance, but it’s not at all the same thing. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at what both of those things mean, with the help of a simple model!
Blog - Why I recommend native Prometheus instrumentation over OpenTelemetry
PromLabs - We teach Prometheus-based monitoring and observability
An example of drifting away in dev
This is a tiny reminder to myself. When making any kind of program, it seems that, to reduce the stresses associated with the development of a complex...
Vibe Coding is Cheap, Show Me The Demo: How I Code with Playwright UI as My Co-Pilot - Chm.ski Labs
In the era of AI-generated code, vibe coding has made writing code effortless but proving it works crucial. Learn Show Me The Demo Development - a methodology that treats demos as specifications using Playwright UI for real-time feedback.
Chrome’s SSL Bypass Cheatcode
This is Unsafe If you type thisisunsafe on a Chrome SSL error page, Chrome will bypass the error and load the page for you. Try it yourself here: https://expired.badssl.com/ There’s no textbox to type into, just type thisisunsafe blindly with the page in focus…
Against Single-File Codebases | rugu
Written at 2025-07-16
Maximizing Leverage in Software Systems
A review of how systems thinking can maximize leverage in software engineering.
Perennial Task Just Got More Flexible
Wednesday, July 16th, 2025
The secrets we keep | willowbl00
I now know that saying you work at Apple is like saying you work at the government. Which part matters a lot.
Comparing Claude Code vs OpenCode (and testing different models)
A practical comparison of Claude Code and OpenCode (using Sonnet-4, Gemini Pro 2.5, and GPT-4.1), evaluating their reliability, code generation quality, and integration with developer workflows based on a real-world task.
Le Chat dives deep. | Mistral AI
Introducing Deep Research, plus Audio-in, Projects, and other updates.
GitHub - pollen-robotics/AmazingHand: Code and model to control the AH!
Code and model to control the AH! Contribute to pollen-robotics/AmazingHand development by creating an account on GitHub.
AI doesn't make devs as productive as they think, study finds
A new study raises serious questions about how perceptions of AI assisted productivity translate into results.
My Bank Keeps On Undermining Anti-Phishing Education
TLDR: my bank sent out emails with websites which looked a lot like phishing mails, so much so that this similarity could potentially be used against them legally by potential phishing victims – Discussion at hackernews (soon) Chapter 1: You’ve got mail As I …
BFF in ASP.NET Core #2 - The BFF Pattern Explained
Learn how the Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) pattern secures Single-Page Applications by moving authentication to the server.
Launching and Exploring Hot Design for Uno Platform - Nick's .NET Travels
As I discussed in my previous post the Uno Platform team have release a subscription based offering, Uno Platform Studio, which includes a runtime visual designer, Hot Design. In this post we’re going to use a new application to launch Hot Design and take a lo…
Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics with $80M to automate construction | TechCrunch
Former Waymo engineers have launched an autonomous vehicle startup with $80 million in venture funds.
Being On Call for Type 1 Diabetes with Carer
Building a tool to help manage T1D
Engineering the End of Work
How will we resist the crisis they are promising?
Gaslight-driven development
Computers are starting to have opinions on how our APIs should look like
On a Prettier PATH
On getting a more readable $PATH, installing "is" in GitHub Actions and using $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY to put it all together.
Analysing FIX Data With ClickHouse | BenjaminWootton.com
Using ClickHouse String and Array Processing functions to analyse FIX Protocol data.
API Auth Is Deeper Than It Looks | Nango Blog
API auth is much more than OAuth flows
The party trick called LLM - blowing away smoke and break some mirrors - De Staat van het Web!
Large Language Models fool you. They don't produce language, but place words in a row. But it's understandable that you think you are dealing with a clever computer. One that occasionally says something that resembles the truth and sounds nice and reliable. Yo…
Zig Interface Revisited
Achieving polymorphism via dynamic dispatch in Zig
Application development without programmers
This book by James Martin published in 1982, includes the following in the preface: Applications development did not change much for 20 years, but now a new wave is crashing …
creating a colorscheme
a small guide based on my own experiences
I'm unsatisfied with easing functions
July 15, 2025
SFT is bad RL
RL is better than SFT
What happened with OpenAI’s offer to buy Windsurf?
Windsurf turned down $3 billion from OpenAI to take $2.4 billion from Google?