Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow
With the stability gained over the past five Godot 4 releases, it's time for polish and quality-of-life improvements for everyday development.
Prompt Engineering to Remove Ads
From time to time, I'll hop on someone else's computer to browse the web and I feel an intense revulsion. Every page you visit is littered with ads. The top has ads, both left and right sidebars have
Michael Reeves (@integralpilot.bsky.social)
On Apple M3, a Linux KDE plasma desktop under Fedora Asahi Remix is now WORKING! Super excited to share this update and happy to answer any questions! Co-credits to noopwafel and Shiz. :)
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Pushing Qwen3-Max-Thinking Beyond its Limits
QWEN CHAT API DISCORD Introduction We present Qwen3-Max-Thinking, our latest flagship reasoning model. By scaling up model parameters and leveraging substantial computational resources for reinforcement learning, Qwen3-Max-Thinking achieves significant perform…
Vibe Coding Kills Open Source
Generative AI is changing how software is produced and used. In vibe coding, an AI agent builds software by selecting and assembling open-source software (OSS), often without users directly reading documentation, reporting bugs, or otherwise engaging with main…
Video Games as Art · Gwern.net
Video games are art, but a strange art: their essence is transformation of the player, not description to the player. This makes meaningful criticism nearly impossible—you can point at the moon, but it’s not the moon, and once someone sees it, they no longer n…
Announcing MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format
The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.
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Whenever we spoke to people thinking about cyber security roles, we kept hearing “SOC work is just staring at alerts all day.” So, to demonstrate that it’s way more than that, we built a learning pathway filled with practical labs to recreate the experience of…
A new digital divide? Coder worldviews, the ‘Slop economy,’ and democracy in the age of AI
Digital technologies are transforming democratic life in conflicting ways. This article bridges two perspectives to unpack these tensions. First, we present an original survey of software developer...
the browser is the sandbox
Paul Kinlan is a web platform developer advocate at Google and recently turned his attention to coding agents. He quickly identified the importance of a robust sandbox for agents to …
After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.
Another 100 Tips to Write Better C# Code
Learn PostgreSQL for Free at Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/course/hands-on-learn-postgresql/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will give you 100 of my top .NET and C# Tips and Tricks to help you write better C#…
GitHub - clawdbot/clawdbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞
Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞 - GitHub - clawdbot/clawdbot: Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞
You have to know how to drive the car
There are lots of different ways to be a software engineer. You can grind out code for twelve hours a day to make the world a better place. You can focus on glue work: process-based work that makes everyone around you more successful. You can join the conversa…
FAA creates drone no-fly zone for ICE operations
The FAA has created nationwide moving drone no-fly zones around ICE vehicles and convoys, with criminal penalties for violating the restricted airspace.
Pruning Claude Code conversation history
A few days ago I cleaned up 200GB from my Mac and deliberately kept my Claude Code history at 2.3GB. Four days later it had grown to 9.5GB. Here’s how I pruned it back to 1.1GB without breaking conversation continuity. This also broke ccs - my fuzzy finder for…
Don't Write Evals for Fast-Moving Systems
You're developing an LLM-powered system. It's moving fast. Should you write evals? Not yet.
De-Vibing A Codebase
Like a digital hangover.
Is ChatGPT Your Friend or Enemy: You Decide
Shield Digital Design Engineering analysis and signal integrity insights. Hardware and electrical engineering. PCB Design and simulations.
First, Make Me Care, by Gwern · Gwern.net
Writing advice: some nonfiction fails because it opens with background instead of a hook—readers leave before reaching the good material. Find the single anomaly or question that makes your topic interesting, lead with that, and let the background follow once …
Bing is not as bad as you think (a search engine quality study) — nilch
You've probably heard, or even said, how bad Bing's search results are in quality. It's true, they were pretty bad. Keyword "were". Back closer to the launch of Bing (then MSN search), the index size was significantly smaller than that of Google. However, here…
Turns out I was wrong about TDD
I used to be a TDD sceptic - too much time writing tests for features that might get deleted. Then coding agents completely changed the economics of software testing.
Follow the trend lines, not the headlines
By almost every measure, life is better than ever. So why does it feel like things are falling apart?
The future of software engineering is SRE | Swizec Teller
When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.
The one and only codebase I'm ever going to keep working on
A little while back, my contract ended with Treble Technologies, for whom I had been writing (parts of) a geometry processing pipeline for automated mesh simplification and mesh cleanup in C++.
Another rabbit hole: Paperless-ngx
As part of my quest to make things in my daily life more complicated I stumbled upon Paperless-ngx a few times already. This weekend I finally went …
suspiciously precise floats, or, how I got Claude's real limits
I reverse-engineered Claude's hidden subscription usage caps from two unrounded utilization floats, recovered exact denominators via Stern-Brocot, and compared what Pro/Max actually buy you versus API pricing (including caching).
Stop Separating People Problems from Engineering Problems
Published on 2026-01-17 by Andrew Graham-Yooll
In defense of the .zip TLD
I am unbiased in this.