What do we do if many people aren't working? - Wilsons Blog To my previous post, “Why do we assume everyone should be working?“, one of the more common and good responses was “well, if people don’t work, lots of bad things will happen”. This is a very fair point, here are some of the good arguments I received: All...
It's time to rip off the band-aid and stop performing code reviews For everyone who just got a little tense reading the headline: I get it. I was there too, not so long ago. At the beginning of this year I spent a month building what was at the time–and might still be–the best AI-aided code review tool in
Technological breakthroughs are easy to miss How did I miss two of the biggest breakthroughs of the 21st century?
Your status enum lives in five files And the as const trick everyone reaches for only fixes one of them
Multi-modeling the Rocket Monster · Mikkel Malmberg Shut. The. Hell. Up.https://t.co/QVEzkIvXGv pic.twitter.com/mr5vIeJmf2— Mikkel Malmberg (@mikker) August 12, 2026 This tweet got popular. It even brought o...
My VP Eng Told Me to Stop Working on Observability. Here's Why He Was Wrong. I was a Staff Engineer at a small, quickly growing start-up. Our new VP eng pulled me aside: it seems like you care a lot about developer experience and observability, but I need you to invest more in the feature work. I understood where he was coming fro...
Structure Was Always the Hard Part - Jason Fleetwood-Boldt My friend Koushik Dasika wrote a post last week called “Coding Was Never the Hard Part.” He’s right. The interesting question is why we’re only able to say it out loud now. For two decades, the conventional story about software has been that engineers are...
Code is the hard part You've probably heard the opposite from those annoying corporate types with a shiny and popular LinkedIn profile. Guess what? They don't hav...
The Bots Always Find Something · Avy Faingezicht AI code reviewers are built to find problems, so they find problems.
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.
Soup Raiders Goes Native: What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine According to VGInsights, about 13% of games released on Steam in 2024 used a custom engine, down from 71% in 20121. So looking at this trend, why should anybody try to make their own game engine? Video Game Insights, The Big Game Engines Report of 2025. h...
How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption Today we're excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler that unlocks cryptographically-sec…
Changing Devtools Is Cheap. Owning Them Isn’t. AI makes devtools cheap to customize, but personalized forks still demand ongoing attention and ownership.
Why not always OCR? In a previous post I talked about how OCRing the PDF would solve the problem I was facing. However, I chose to process the PDF with a different method. Someone in the hacker news comments had this to say. This person is not wrong, but I’d like to point ou...
Spectre on RISC-V Silicon | Lukas Gerlach Commercial out-of-order RISC-V cores turn out to be vulnerable to the major Spectre variants, and most of the mitigations that exist on x86 are missing.
