BirdyChat Becomes Europe’s First WhatsApp-Interoperable Chat App We are excited to share that BirdyChat is the first chat app in Europe that can exchange messages with WhatsApp under the Digital Markets Act. This is a big step forward for anyone using BirdyChat for work.
Microsoft will assist the FBI in unlocking your Windows PC data if asked Microsoft says it will provide the FBI with BitLocker encryption keys if requested for PCs that upload their key to the cloud via your Microsoft Account.
Week 3: The Trojan Horse A PR hid vote manipulation in plain sight. Democracy overruled the maintainer. So the maintainer wrote a constitution.
Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…
Why I’m Ignoring the Prophets of Doom – Coding Is My Craft The AI Revolution in Coding: Why I’m Ignoring the Prophets of Doom Every day, we are bombarded with headlines about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is "disrupting" every industry in its path. Software development is at the epicenter of this hype. With th...
Combining the Factory and Strategy Patterns | no dogma blog The Factory and Strategy Patterns are very good bedfellows, the factory generates the strategy on the fly without the client 'newing' up anything.
cURL Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program Over AI Slop Overrun Daniel Stenberg says the inflow of AI slop has become unsustainable for the curl security team to handle.
Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
Forecasting the death of StackOverflow You've probably seen the news: StackOverflow is almost dead If nothing extraordinary happens, the site's run is basically over and it may end up as one of the first high-profile casualties of the LLM era. The only real question is when.
You might not need a sync server for real-time collaboration Lessons from building multiplayer games.
How to Build a Social Network as an Adult - Thomas Unise Making friends as an adult is a problem nobody prepares you for. So here is a strategy no one seems to talk about. When you’re young, friendships happen automatically due...
We have to re-learn to walk alone Reading the article about Nexus that Obie has posted I got absolutely struck. Yes, it can be said without a shade of doubt that the modern way of building software, the late-2025-way with Opus 4.5 in the picture, is markedly different from the one we oper...
The Uncomfortable Math of Working for Yourself - Thomas Unise Nobody Tells You Freedom Has a Billing Rate This year in 2026, I turn 40. I’ve been self-employed since I was 25. That’s fifteen years of answering to no one,...
Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks:
A Better Practices Guide to Using Claude Code A comprehensive guide to getting the most out of Claude Code
How to Think About Self-Attention Intuitively An example of how to think about self-attention in an intuitive way
AGENTS.md as a dark signal Is an AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md file in a repo a sign of possibly poor code quality?
Claude Code is a Footgun — Jonathon Ready How agentic coding tools can build impressive features while making your codebase incomprehensible.
I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me) The new year has started and I was once again looking for a simple calendar to do some yearly planning. I've tried to find something for this use …
The Long View of History History as a subject is often viewed by students and the public at large as a domain without a use, a pedantic study of dates and names with some vague mission to remember the past—a memorial to ages past but neither a forward-looking or useful endeavor. ...
A Third Conversational Pattern in BDD It’s been a moment! COVID disrupted a lot of things, not least my writing. More recently I’ve been busy with my new employment with the amazing Assent, focusing on sustainability in man…
The Future of Software Teams in a Claude Code World How AI is changing software team structures: from specialists to product engineers, full stack builders, and small teams that ship faster. What's happening now and predictions for the future.
I Spent 3 Years Chasing Backlinks the Wrong Way. Heres What Actually Works in 2026. | serpsherpa I'll be honest with you.For the first two years of running my sites, I thought backlinks were this magical thing that would fix all my ranking problems. I bought courses. I sent hundreds of outreach emails. I even paid for a few link packages that promise...
Downloading a podcast to create an audiobook If a podcast has an RSS feed, we can download it, parse it, and then download all the content into a single folder, which can then be played by any audio player.
Avoiding Duplicate Objects in Django Querysets When filtering Django querysets across relationships, you can easily end up with duplicate objects in your results. This is a common gotcha that happens with both one-to-many (1:N) and many-to-many (N:N) relationships. Let’s explore why this happens and t...
Time Management for Anarchists I did a seminar at Canzine, a zine fair in Toronto. It focused on the paradoxical notion that if you want to live without bosses, you have to be self-disciplined. I attribute my productivity to bei…
How I estimate work as a staff software engineer There’s a kind of polite fiction at the heart of the software industry. It goes something like this:
Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee With falling sales and shrinking profits, the recurring revenue will be most welcome.
