A Decade of Slug - Eric Lengyel
Eric Lengyel • March 17, 2026
Eric Lengyel • March 17, 2026
If you don't have administrator rights on a Windows computer, you can still install and run .NET.
AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide wha…
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding
A groundbreaking hack for Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One was revealed at the recent RE//verse 2026 conference.
Get every Dometrain 30% off with code HANDSON30: https://dometrain.com/courses/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube&coupon_code=HANDSON30 Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will showcase unions in C# 15 and .NET 11 since they have finally been merged…
Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.
Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.
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Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...
Kagi Translate uses powerful AI models to instantly and accurately translate any content in any language.
The S&P 500 is near all-time highs. Crypto is up. And yet the US has started its biggest Middle East war since Iraq, and 20% of the world’s oil just went offline. Why is most everybody pretending things are normal?
It’s 2:47 AM on a Tuesday. I’m not debugging a production outage. There’s no deadline. I’m just watching Claude Code refactor a module — and I can’t stop. One more prompt. One more agent run. One more hit. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Something s…
After the first level of tuning of the random forest’s parameters, it came time to optimize the features on which the random forest gets trained on. I’ve already did a minor cleanup, but I didn’t...
For White Day I decided to make chocolates for my wife. Designing a master. Casting a mold. Melting the Chocolate. Pouring the Bar
Uncloud
Uncloud: PaaS-like workflow on your own servers.
Some perspectives on approaching a rewrite of a software project.
Coding agents didn't make poor engineers dangerous. They made them unstoppable.
The Django community wants to collaborate with you, not a facade of you.
The one where I am totally done with email forms
Software engineer who breaks down complex problems and connects systems. From enterprise platforms to industrial machines to AI.
A personal exploration of how learning multiple languages—Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Ukrainian—has shaped my thinking, expanded my world, and unlocked new ways of understanding others.
Dogfooding a code review tool through a planning-first AI workflow
A reading note on Sequential-Parallel Duality in Prefix Scannable Models by Morris Yau, Sharut Gupta, Valerie Engelmayer, Kazuki Irie, Stefanie Jegelka, and Jacob Andreas (ICLR 2026).
First open-source code agent for Lean 4.
Crafted with care
It was not until relatively late in my academic career when I realized my thirst for the written word had given me a superpower.
JSON imports finally work natively. Learn how import ... with { type: 'json' } changes runtime behavior, caching, and makes bundlers optional.
Transaction Boundaries Are a Business Concept
In most systems, use cases live in the application layer, where services orchestrate domain operations and side-effects such as persistence, messaging, or external calls. It’s also common for…
Building a Reader for the World’s Smallest Hard Drive — MK4001MTD
Personal blog of Nick Dainty about web development and software engineering.
The New Complexity Trap
My personal security blog
Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
Claude is changing how I write software dramatically. My biggest worry, as someone who's been writing software for a long time, is that I will be so blinded by my hard earned intuition on complexity that I will subconsciously be less ambitious than the moment…
Recently, I’ve been solving more and more complex problems. From working on those, I found a “strategy”/method that worked: to lay out the information needed as a bunch of questions, then answer them. I want to share the idea because I think it’s very useful i…