10 March 2026

21 links · Tuesday

I'm Not Lying, I'm Hallucinating

Hallucination is a catch all term used to justify all failures from an large language models. By anthropomorphizing it, failures become tolerable to users.

Tony Hoare (1934-2026)

Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor  Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGO...

How I Run a Software Engineering Standup

I’ve been participating in software standups every day for over a decade, and over the past two years, leading them, too. Here’s how I run the best standup meetings that I can.

Reflections on vibe coding an iOS app

I am not an iOS developer, but a few days ago I published an iOS app called Pylo. Sure, I have been writing software professionally for nearly 20 years. I even wrote an iOS app before, but the late...

Every language should have a UUID type

I reach for UUIDs constantly. And yet in most languages, there's no standard type for them. You use a string, or a [16]byte, or you add a UUID package and ho...

Reflections on vibecoding ticket.el

It has now been a month since I started playing with Claude Code “for real” and by now I’ve mostly switched to Codex CLI: it is much snappier—who would imagine that a “Rewrite in Rust” would make things tangibly faster—and the answers feel more to-the-point th…

A New Chapter for Bluesky - Bluesky

After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer.