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28 April
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26 April
From one piece How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A platform of creators and developers is a durable moat, because an ecosystem, unlike a feature, cannot be cloned.Their words
the more that we could build a platform uh around our business, the more that we could build an ecosystem with creators and developers, the harder it would be for folks uh to to just copy that.
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Network effects are not a sufficient moat, because software features get copied however many patents you hold.Their words
network effects are certainly an important piece of the puzzle for sure, um but I don't think they're enough when it comes to these sorts of software uh you know, software cloning.
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Software is not a moat, and the AI industry is only now discovering what Snap learned fifteen years ago.Their words
15 years ago we essentially learned that software is not a moat, right? Which is something that everyone is discovering today with AI, right?
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AI coding assistance now lets a programmer complete in a day work that used to take weeks.Their words
Though now that I can accomplish ~3 weeks of old-way work in a new-way day, this sort of project becomes that much easier to start and finish.
25 April
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As the software industry is largely driven by trends and fashion, React's "cool factor" led to a mass amnesia regarding how to make normal, well-designed web apps made of HTML with a sprinkling of scripting on top and everything became one big tangled, brittle mass of Javascript that completely keeled over when scripting wasn't available.
24 April
22 April
From one piece Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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local-first software, which is this idea that we want to take away a bit of the power from cloud operators and give it back to end users. So, end users should be more in control of their own data and less dependent on cloud services for providing the applications and the data that that the users need.
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But, somebody still has to build those lower-level abstractions and from lower-level components. Somebody's got to implement the cloud services.
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software as a service businesses, for example the whole reason why they can charge a subscription is because they are able to essentially hold a gun to the customer's head and say, "Pay us at your subscription, otherwise we will delete all your data."
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And now suddenly people are building databases on top of object stores, for example. And now the replication happens at the object store level, no longer at the database level.
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Maybe as AI writes more and more code of our code, it's less about like the details of how you express logic in a particular programming language and much more about those kinds of high-level trade-offs.
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Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software.
From one piece Borrow-checking without type-checking 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The dynamic type system provides flexibility and easy meta-programming, while the static type system removes the overhead in most of your code.
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Ensuring that moving, borrowing, and sharing don't break the illusion is surprisingly easy to do with a static type system, and surprisingly hard to do with a dynamic type system, or at least hard to do cheaply.
15 April
From one piece Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
AI will not commoditise software tools; it will multiply them, because every new agent is another tool user.Their words
I actually see the opposite of what people see I think the number of agents are going to grow exponentially. The number of tool users are going to grow exponentially and it's very likely that the number of instances of all these tools are going to skyrocket.
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We have got to acknowledge that most of the advanc advances in AI came out of algorithm advances not just the raw hardware. Now if most advances came from algorithms and computer science and programming tell me that their army of AI researchers is not their fundamental advantage.
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But without the handoff, everyone builds. And that makes all the difference.
13 April
8 April
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But I have come to realize that as a web developer, Linux is just better. Linux is just better. It's closer to what I deploy on. The tooling is actually phenomenal.
Their words now
anyone who's working with the web, who's working with Ruby, who's doing DevOps, they should be on Linux because first of all, that's closer to what we deploy.
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I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.
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I will now start any project I'm starting with. I'm starting agent first and that's a massive shift
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It may no longer have as much economic value as it once did. I think that I'm quite convinced is true that we perhaps have seen the peak.
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So, I do think it is correct for the average programmer to think maybe we've seen the best of the golden days.
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Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.
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really good programmers are currently more valuable than ever because they're the ones who are able to get the most out of the AI acceleration.
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The joy of a programmer, of me as a programmer, is to type the code myself. If I elevate myself, if I promote myself out of programming, I turn myself into a project manager. A project manager of a murder of AI crows as I wrote the other day.
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I have been hyper accelerated as a programmer. It's a different kind of programmer, but it still has the same affinity to aesthetics, at least when I'm producing Ruby code.
7 April
From one piece Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But now now we have this repeating this repeating, "Hey, we get to get rid of all the programmers." Which it behooves us as programmers to think about why they keep wanting to get rid of us. Some of that's about us and some of it's not, but some of it is. So we should think about that. But also that ants amps up the fear factor that everybody is experiencing.
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What I see now is, well, "I'm a a programmer and I've got six agents. So, really I'm managing a team." No, you're not. You're using six tools at once, which is fine. But, it's that's very different than having a conversation with somebody who believes things that are a little different than what you believe.
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So, I see a a big trend is the re-soloing of programming. Where a big part of extreme programming is creating a safe social environment for basically antisocial people. Not just asocial, antisocial. And the when I think about the degree of interaction on an XP team, people aren't talking to each other hours a day and happy to be doing so because it's set up for that to be a positive experience.
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Yeah, AI is an amplifier. And if uh if you're young and learning quickly, AI is going to amplify that or can amplify that. So, I I personally think this is this is the golden age of the junior programmer.
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So certainly one thing that a lot of them seem to be bottlenecked on is now having interesting ideas and in particular having interesting design ideas.
From one piece Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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which is that the the Venn diagram of developer experience and agent experience is a circle. And the point here is that, you know, what we do that that's good for the agents is good for the humans and vice versa. I'm hearing a lot of feedback saying, "Yeah, actually, if you have well-modularized code, that actually makes it easy for the agents to work with."
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Um I think another similarity is I mean, the core notions uh behind Agile and extreme programming are solid and good, but a huge snake oil industry appeared around it, the Agile industrial complex as I like to refer to it. Um and that will happen. That is happening with AI right now, and it's often hard to see the difference between where is the snake oil and where is the real stuff.
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My bet is on the more effective two pizza teams. Um and it it's also some interesting, you know, feedback we're beginning to get in terms of pair programming. I mean, with pair programming, do you say pair programming is the human and the genie? Or is it two humans and and genies? Because if it's two of us, we can control the genies perhaps a little bit better.
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For years, it was faster to mock up software than to ship it. Designers stayed "ahead" of engineering with prototypes. Now AI coding agents make development so much faster that the loop has flipped.
6 April
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But here's what I know for certain: product isn't a moat. Software engineering capability isn't a moat. Not anymore.
The Increasing Risk of Building in Publicthebootstrappedfounder.com
2 April
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Arch LinuxTheir words
Software I have been a Linux user for a long time. About a year and a half ago I migrated over to Arch Linux.
1 April
From one piece Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I don't mind if we think we can do something of our own problem it's terrifying when we have a major problem and we depend on somebody else
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none of us wanted to go through that extreme but lots of time when you are under a lot of pressure and no time to react other than just to survive that scale that keep on coming at you, you have to make uh decision that increase uh speed and velocity because speed and velocity allow us to build quick enough to survive
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we're trying to crack the next frontier which is how we get that level of productivity increase and output building new features on top of a code base that are older,
29 March
From one piece Chip Huyen: Building when it feels like there's nothing left to build - The Pragmatic Summit 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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if you can describe a style, AI can generate it. And the same with software. If you can describe a software, then AI can build it for you.
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But in Vietnam and also in a lot of other Asian countries, people are on the move all the time. Like people are on the motorbike all the time. So, they actually really don't like typing. So, the voice like a lot of the companies in Vietnam actually deploy voice bots before they do uh do chatbot.
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I feel like now I can build anything I want. But at the same time, anyone can build anything I want. So, what is the incentive structure for me to do anything?
From one piece 2026 has been the most pivotal year in my career… and it's only March 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI makes programming so cheap that only the rich will write code by hand.
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Frontier AI now outperforms most human programmers at most programming tasks, with very low defect rates.Their words
AI is now highly skilled at programming, and better than me at almost every programming task, with inhumanly-low defect rates.
27 March
25 March
From one piece Thoughts on slowing the fuck down 4 beliefs · mariozechner.at
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And organizations have super high pain tolerance. But human-made enterprise codebases take years to get there. The organization slowly evolves along with the complexity in a demented kind of synergy and learns how to deal with it. With agents and a team of 2 humans, you can get to that complexity within weeks.
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With an orchestrated army of agents, there is no bottleneck, no human pain. These tiny little harmless booboos suddenly compound at a rate that's unsustainable. You have removed yourself from the loop, so you don't even know that all the innocent booboos have formed a monster of a codebase. You only feel the pain when it's too late.
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You can give it a Bash tool so it can ripgrep its way through the codebase. You can give it some queryable codebase index, an LSP server, a vector database. In the end it doesn't matter much. The bigger the codebase, the lower the recall. Low recall means that your agent will, in fact, not find all the code it needs to do a good job.
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Worse, you realize that the gazillions of unit, snapshot, and e2e tests you had your clankers write are equally untrustworthy. The only thing that's still a reliable measure of "does this work" is manually testing the product.
23 March
From one piece Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #494 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So you get this rapid, incredible great talent, rapid innovation because of open source and just, you know, the nature of friends, and, and insane competition. Among the company, what emerges is incredible stuff. And so this is the fastest innovating country in the world today
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You know, a lot of people would say, "You know AI is gonna completely destroy software. We don't need software anymore. We don't even need tools anymore." That's ridiculous.
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And if everything is proprietary, it's hard to do research and it's hard to innovate on top of, around, with. And so… Open source is fundamentally necessary for many industries to join the AI revolution.
22 March
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Lovedrcmnd.app
StarletteTheir words
Kim Christie started working on Starlette in 2018 and it quickly became my favorite out of the new breed of Python ASGI frameworks.
From one piece Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summit 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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right now, that whole front end has been like kind of smooshed because many times we can just like prototype really really rapidly and kind of solidify some of what we're thinking in terms of like ideas and coding. So I fully expect that part of the outer loop is just going to be collapsed as well, right?
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AI did not create the bottlenecks in software delivery; it threw gas on processes everybody already knew were weak.Their words
There were a handful of people probably managing a security review process or a launch process or a deployment process or, you know, sometimes reviews were a little slow and they got backed up. Well, now we just threw gas on the fire and so all of that is a problem.
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And so, like in the immediate term, yeah, we were getting more out, but now our systems, whether technology systems or human systems or processes, are really kind of getting overwhelmed.
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You cannot mandate a tool developers dislike — they will quietly spin up the one they wanted.Their words
I'm going to sound old when I say this, but like I one time had a company tell me, "Oh, well, they have to use that CI/CD system." I'm like 20 bucks, they're just spinning up Jenkins. And they were, right?
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I I will say I tend to start with adoption. I am not a fan of an adoption metric. I don't like it, but also devs are like a gloriously cranky bunch.
21 March
20 March
From one piece Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The way software gets built flipped in December: writing code yourself is now the exception, not the default.Their words
I kind of went from 80/20 of like, you know, uh to like 20/80 of writing code by myself versus just delegating to agents. And I don't even think it's 20/80 by now. I think it's a lot more than that. I don't think I've typed like a line of code probably since December basically.
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these apps that are on the app store for using these smart home devices, etc. Uh, these shouldn't even exist kind of in a certain sense. Like shouldn't it just be APIs and shouldn't agents be just using it directly?
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Demand for software will be extremely large precisely because software just got much cheaper to produce.Their words
I do have like cautiously optimistic view of this in software engineering where I do think um it does seem to me like the demand for software will be extremely large. Um and it's just become a lot cheaper.
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I simultaneously feel like I'm talking to an extremely brilliant PhD student who's been like a systems programmer for their entire life and a 10-year-old.
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So I think the industry just has to reconfigure in so many ways that's like the customer is not the human anymore. It's like agents who are acting on behalf of humans and this refactoring will be will probably be substantial in a certain sense.
19 March
From one piece Simon Willison: Engineering practices that make coding agents work - The Pragmatic Summit 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Why would I use a date picker library where I'd have to customize it when I could have Claude write me the exact date picker that I want.
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OpenAI and Anthropic have both realized that code is the most important thing to optimize the models for, cuz that's where the money is. Like coders will spend $200 a month on a plan if it's good enough, it turns out.
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one of the magic tricks about these things is that they they're incredibly consistent. If you've got a code base with a bunch of patterns in, they will follow those patterns almost to a T.
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just cuz the test suite passes doesn't mean that the web server will boot. You know, there's there's always a chance that when you actually try in the real world, something's not going to work.
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projects are flooded with junk contributions at the moment to the point that people are trying to convince GitHub to disable pull requests, which is something GitHub have never done.
15 March
13 March
From one piece Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Um, and then you stack on 70 this year, 80 next year, growing to 100 by 2030. You're at like 700 EV tools by the end of the decade. Um, 700 EV tools, three and a half tools per gigawatt. um assuming it's all allocated to AI which it's not but three and a half tools per gigawatt gets you to 200 gigawatts worth of AI chips for the data centers to deploy
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As we move from, you know, hey, [clears throat] these companies are selling tokens where they provide the entire uh reasoning chain and all that to uh selling automated, you know, white collar work, right? Automated software engineer, send them the request, they give you the result back and there's a bunch of thinking on the back end that they don't show you. The ability to distill out of American models into Chinese models will be harder.
From one piece Data Is the Only Moat 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Real-world, human-generated data is becoming the only durable moat for software businesses over the next decade.Their words
I believe that data - real-world data, mostly human-generated, validated, and cleaned - is the only reliable moat we have as software founders in the near and mid-term future.
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Making your software business an API-first business is probably one of the smartest things you can do today.
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If you run a software business that is purely transformative - that takes incoming data, does something to it, and turns the data back out - that will be a problem.
11 March
From one piece From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yegge 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think that by the end of this year and we'll see demos of it like right away, but by the end of this year most people will be programming by talking to a face. A face as in a face on the screen.
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My my feeling is that probably people have a low tolerance for non-determinism. And these things are fundamentally non-deterministic. So, they can't just go replace customer call center software because they they could be wrong.
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If you're a monolith, you're kind of hosed because I told you the ceiling's going up for what they can do, but it ain't ever going to hit your monolith. They will never fit in the context window and you're never going to be able to never in the next 18 months be able to tell a model go fix my monolith. You have to break it up.
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I had a lot of my own ego and identity wrapped up in my sort of compiler background. It's all It's interesting, right? But it's it's not useful in any meaningful sense anymore.
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But right now I think it's sitting somewhere between half million and five million lines of code, somewhere in there. Probably more on the half million side right now and with the next drop of an Anthropic model, we're probably going to see it jump up to a few million lines.
10 March
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ScreenFlowTheir words
ScreenFlow - Recording software
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Lovedrcmnd.app
TypeScriptTheir words
TypeScript - I can't imagine building JavaScript projects without TypeScript.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
React Router v7Their words
Remix/React Router v7 - The best framework to build a web app
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ZodTheir words
Zod - A great schema declaration and data validation library for TypeScript.
8 March
4 March
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always make sure that when you start a migration, you finish the migration.
From one piece Will Claude Code ruin our team? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As more people build software and cycle time compresses, they'll start to absorb lessons that it took their colleagues decades to learn.
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AI-driven skill compression will be disruptive to software team culture in the short term.Their words
In the short term, this is going to be incredibly disruptive for team culture.
3 March
From one piece Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Bloated, slow software is caused by a lack of engineering care, not by the choice of technology stack.Their words
The real problem is a lack of care. And the slop; you can build it with any stack.
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Native OS APIs are worse to develop against than web APIs, and platform vendors discourage native app development.Their words
Native APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.
2 March
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That now ubiquitous timeline names eras after the inorganic materials that happened to survive in the dirt.
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Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.Their words
Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are functionally constrained.
1 March
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I've always been opinionated about how software should work. Mainly, it should be fast. The bounds of it should be "knowable." The contract you have with it should be "sane" (i.e., you just own it).
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Usesrcmnd.app
Claude CodeTheir words
With Claude, I've built a host of software like this. Mostly small tools for myself — programs that instantly append copy buffers to text files (I keep a running file of nice things people write to me called notapieceofshit.txt) or quickly perform live currency conversions.
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Yes, I could totally see how OpenClaw could become a huge company. And no, it’s not really exciting for me. I’m a builder at heart. I did the whole creating-a-company game already, poured 13 years of my life into it and learned a lot. What I want is to change the world, not build a large company and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone.
13 February
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But but that's actually a very weak criterion, right? People thought I was saying like we won't need 90% of the software engineers. Those things are worlds apart, right?
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But the quality of these systems isn't just in the code they write. It's also in the code I don't have to write. And maybe more importantly, their actual value is in the code I would never have written, or could never have written, or never would have wanted to write.
When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Offthebootstrappedfounder.com
12 February
From one piece OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Refactors are cheap now, so he just does them, even when they break other people's open pull requests.Their words
Many times, I just do the refactor because refactors are cheap now. Even though you might break some other PRs, nothing really matters anymore.
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korrents.com
Do not run a personal agent on a cheap or local model: weak models are gullible and easy to prompt-inject.Their words
That's why I warn in my security documentation, don't use cheap models. Don't use Haiku or a local model. Even though I, I very much love the idea that this thing could completely run local. If you use a, a very weak local model, they are very gullible. It's very easy to, to prompt inject them.
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That, that gets into the whole arch of every app is just a very slow API now, if they want or not. And that through personal agents a lot of apps will disappear.
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But I don't want to, like, pull that down because every time someone made the first pull request is a win for our society, you know? Like, it… Like, it doesn't matter how, how shitty it is, y- you gotta start somewhere.
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korrents.com
Being an excellent programmer is a burden rather than an advantage when learning to work with coding agents.Their words
It’s actually how good they are at programming is almost a burden in their ability to empathize with the system that’s starting from scratch. It’s a totally new paradigm of, like, how to program. You really, really have to empathize.
10 February
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building a third-party client to read and route messages is a gray area in their terms of service, and perhaps only partially supported in their API surfaces.
9 February
From one piece Is the craft dead? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Craftsmanship, taste, and human judgment remain valuable in software development despite AI-assisted coding tools.Their words
There is value in good taste, there is value in craftsmanship, and there is value in human judgment.
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I think that there will be lots of work for us cleaning up after the slop, but if you know what you're doing AI augmented development is going to get you some amazing results
8 February
From one piece Eight more months of agents 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Most current software and ways of solving problems are structured the wrong way for the agent era.Their words
Most software is the wrong shape now. Most of the ways we try to solve problems are the wrong shape.
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The best software design for an AI agent to use is the same as the best design for a human programmer.Their words
the best software for an agent is whatever is best for a programmer.
6 February
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4 February
From one piece The danger of glamourizing one shots 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Programming is essentially the craft of turning ambiguous ideas into precise, specific instructions.Their words
It's not trivial to one shot something unique, because programming is the art of making the ambiguous incredibly specific through sculpting.
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As high-level programming cedes way to the prose compiler, making your goals and specs well understood to the ambiguity loop and showing good judgment is going to matter more than ever.
3 February
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MoonlightTheir words
The Moonlight client is available for virtually every platform: Mac, iOS, Android, and of course Linux. That means no need to dual boot to enjoy the best games at the highest fidelity.
31 January
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Usesrcmnd.app
DiaTheir words
However, I frequently run the Dia browser these days when I need a Chrome-based browser.
30 January
25 January
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there should be no way to get a big company like a public SAS company Unless NR is greater than 100, like otherwise cancellation should just win. And that is in fact the case.
23 January
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korrents.com
Open-source text embedding models run well enough on consumer hardware to be practical for real tasks.Their words
Local / open text embedding models work fine on consumer hardware.
Email triage with an embedding-based classifieradamwiggins.com
22 January
19 January
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But with today's AI coding agents, building software is remarkably easy. So instead of handing over static assets and static guidelines, designers can deliver custom software. Tools that let clients create their own on-brand assets whenever they need them.
18 January
From one piece Why I Stopped Using nbdev 2 beliefs · hamel.dev
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korrents.com
Careful step-by-step thinking is a property of the developer, not something a tool or framework can enforceTheir words
Notebooks don't force you to write clean code. AI tools don't force you to think carefully. Discipline comes from the developer, not the environment.
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korrents.com
Good documentation is produced by effort, not by tooling that keeps code and docs togetherTheir words
This reinforced my belief that good documentation comes from effort, not tooling.
15 January
From one piece Podcast: На Маке нет никаких шкафов @ Думаем дальше 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Making programming easier for more people has caused software to become bloated, slow and hard to manage.Their words
Компьютеры стали бытовым прибором, начать программировать легче, чем когда-либо, сложнейшие вещи делаются просто и даже тривиально, написаны горы готового кода. К сожалению, у этого есть и обратная сторона - программы становятся большими, медленными, неуправляемыми, непонимаемыми.
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Frontend-backend communication should be mediated through a shared database rather than a custom API.Their words
Communication between frontend and backend should be handled by database
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Local-first software will not become the dominant architecture, and that is an acceptable outcome.Their words
Local-first is not going to win, but that's okay We'll explore the complexities of traditional stack (db-server-frontend), develop a theory of software evolution: which systems succeed and why.
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I don’t think this is very productive (expert users of a piece of software are notoriously bad at being able to tell if an explanation will be clear to non-experts), so I needed to find a way to identify problems with the man pages that was a little more evidence-based.
7 January
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A consumer fraud dispute is decided by a support agent in about three minutes, not by anything resembling a trial.Their words
It is a CSR clicking a button on their web app’s interface after 3 minutes of consideration, and then entire evidentiary record often fits in a tweet.
One Regulation E, Two Very Different Regimesbitsaboutmoney.com
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Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your OrganizationTheir words
. Understanding how we grow and develop will help you become a better leader and a more empathetic colleague. More accessible than his academic work, this book also provides a framework for understanding underlying beliefs and motivations that might be holding you back.
2 January
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Their words
To be clear, speed in itself does not mean labor markets and employment won’t eventually recover, it just implies the short-term transition will be unusually painful compared to past technologies, since humans and labor markets are slow to react and to equilibrate.
From one piece We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here's what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Almost nobody should build their own AI go-to-market tools; buy them, the way you would buy any other software.Their words
Don't build it yourself. You're not Versel. You don't have a full-time wicked awesome engineer that wants to build this.
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go fire up your browser. Do it in incognito. Go to your app and do everything with a fresh Gmail address. Try support. See how your support is. Try to contact sales.
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because you have to train them because it takes a month, the world's best software with no help training you is not one 99% of people should buy.
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So, add all that up, 5%. In many categories, we're north of 50% in market. So, that just totally changes.
30 December 2025
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KeePassXCTheir words
For password management I used a command line tool called pass. I switched to KeepassXC in mid-2025.
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FirefoxTheir words
I used Opera as a browser in 2006 for ~8 years, then I tried Firefox and went to Chrome until March 2025 when finally I switched back to Firefox.
28 December 2025
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GoTheir words
My go-to languages are TypeScript for web stuff, Go for CLIs and Swift if it needs to use macOS stuff or has UI. Go wasn’t something I gave even the slightest thought even a few months ago, but eventually I played around and found that agents are really great at writing it, and its simple type system makes linting fast.
24 December 2025
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20 December 2025
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ZenTheir words
Zen: I'm also a fan of Brave, but Zen is a great browser because it's open-source and firefox-based, but with all the customization and utilization I need.
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SvelteKitTheir words
elements, JavaScript reigns supreme. SvelteKit's efficiency and reactivity make it my framework of choice, and TypeScript's type annotations bring a welcome layer of confidence to my codebase.
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fnmTheir words
fnm: fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust.
16 December 2025
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The Secret of Our SuccessTheir words
Not every plank in his argument is convincing, and the research has evolved since the book first came out a decade ago, but the ambition is impressive and the framework holds up.
8 December 2025
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Their words
The only highly populated industrial country unable to trivially meet its electricity and synthetic fuel needs with solar alone is the United Kingdom, due primarily to a high population density and high latitude. The Nordic and Baltic countries are tiny by comparison. Among other problems, the UK needs to decide if it wants the future where energy is cheap and it is rich, or the future where energy is expensive and it is poor. If the former, it is time to get serious about large scale deployment of wind power, using home-grown vertically integrated technology at prices as low as $10/MWh.
4 December 2025
26 November 2025
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shot-scraperTheir words
I’ve got a GitHub actions thing that runs a piece of software I wrote called shot-scraper that runs Playwright, that loads up a browser in GitHub actions to scrape that webpage and turn the results into JSON, which then get turned into an atom feed, which I subscribe to in NetNewsWire.
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NetNewsWireTheir words
I’ve got a GitHub actions thing that runs a piece of software I wrote called shot-scraper that runs Playwright, that loads up a browser in GitHub actions to scrape that webpage and turn the results into JSON, which then get turned into an atom feed, which I subscribe to in NetNewsWire.
25 November 2025
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Framework DesktopTheir words
It's an incredible machine, but in the day-to-day, I've actually found I barely notice the difference compared to a $500 mini PC from Beelink
From one piece Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The models are much more like the first student but even more because then we say okay so the model should be good at competitive programming so let's get every single competitive programming problem ever and then let's do some data augmentation so we have even more competitive programming problems
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Their words
But I think the idea of very rapid economic growth for some time, I think it's very possible from broad deployment.
22 November 2025
18 November 2025
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Their words
Thus my personal prediction is that in domains that are already largely under the powers of modern AI, such as languages, programming or chess, we’re going to see a divergence in human abilities.
16 November 2025
From one piece Third Stage Engineering 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Fair hardware benchmarks must use the best software and tuning for each hardware option, not hardware specs alone.Their words
The most accurate and realistic evaluation for HW involves selecting the best software and then tuning it, and doing this for all HW options.
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Computer hardware performance depends on hardware, software, and tuning together, not hardware alone.Their words
You need all three stages to reach the highest, and most competitive, performance.
From one piece How FOSS Won and Why It Matters 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It significantly lowered the bar to production. It is how we got the whole society to run on software. If you make it harder for hobbyists maintainers, you are going to crash society.
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FOSS solve that problem far more than it solves “we don’t want to pay”. Most corporations would be surprised by how cheap it would cost them to pay for the FOSS software they use.
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You cannot go back. If the solution you offer recreate any of the Supply Chain framework problem, then your solution is Dead On Arrival.
12 November 2025
From one piece Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the improvement software improvements of really throughput in terms of tokens per dollar per watt that we're able to get uh you know quarter over quarter year over year is massive uh right so it's 5x 10x maybe 40x in some of these cases
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it's kind of like databases right it's always the thing it's like hey can one database be the one that just is used everywhere except it's not uh there are multiple types of databases that are getting deployed uh for different use cases.
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So this AI thing will be that right. So if you take coding um what we built with GitHub and VS code in over whatever decades uh suddenly the coding assistant is that big in one year and so that I think is what's going to happen as well which is the market expands massively.
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Coding is a software-factory category that may end up bigger than knowledge work itself.Their words
this fundamentally this category of coding and AI is probably going to be one of the biggest categories right it is a software factory category in fact it may be bigger than knowledge work
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The per-user software business becomes a per-agent business, and it grows faster than the number of users.Their words
which I think is going to just keep growing because guess what it's going to grow faster than the number of users. So in fact that's kind of one of the other questions people ask me is hey what happens to the per user business at least the early signs may be the way to think about the per user business is not just per user it's per agent
6 November 2025
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durable workflows are scaling errors as values to your infrastructure. errors as values lead to predictable, maintainable, and scalable software.
22 October 2025
From one piece ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
I had typed "Taylor Swift" in a browser, and the response had literally zero links to Taylor Swift's actual website. If you stayed within what Atlas generated, you would have no way of knowing that Taylor Swift has a website at all.
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Atlas is a browser, but it is not a web browser. It is an anti-web browser.
20 October 2025
16 October 2025
From one piece Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
A lot of people can match a framework for taste; almost nobody can create one, and creating one is the rare skill.Their words
I think that for those who can create and then articulate a framework around what is taste for us that is really a important skill and uh then I think people can a lot of people can basically match a framework not many people can create the framework.
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I think in this world where software can be created more easily, design matters so much and designers matter so much. I think designers are going to be the leaders of the future and I think that more designers need to speak step into that leadership role
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if you want to win in the game of software, you need to differentiate through design. Like that's again how you win or lose. Craft matters. And so we're no longer in this era of good enough is fine. It's like good enough is not enough.
14 October 2025
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CursorTheir words
Cursor… it’s tab completion model is industry leading, if you still write code yourself. I use VS Code mostly, I do like them pushing things like browser automation and plan mode tho.
10 October 2025
8 October 2025
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RoonTheir words
Roon is software to control your home stereo. I have a lifetime subscription, and the link gets you thirty days for free. If you love music, you'll get a lot out of this.
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GitKrakenTheir words
My favorite software for Git version control.
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GitHub CopilotTheir words
I cannot work anymore without it. AI pair programmer for code completion and suggestions.
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Visual Studio CodeTheir words
My primary code editor. Extensible, fast, and has excellent TypeScript support. The integrated terminal and Git features are fantastic.
7 October 2025
From one piece The Past and Future of Vibe Coding 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
As AI lowers the barrier to building software, personal taste becomes a more valuable differentiator.Their words
But along with the question of what you're willing to maintain, as the barriers to creation drop the value of taste will only increase.
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Their words
Good software requires maintenance and ongoing attention, which is why most people will still prefer to pay to use something someone else is maintaining.
6 October 2025
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Jupyter notebooksTheir words
As for me personally, I tend to use these tools as a backend data store and use Jupyter notebooks as well as my own custom built annotation interfaces for most of my needs.
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Arize PhoenixTheir words
The panel had a generally positive view of Phoenix, with one panelist calling it one of his “favorite open source eval tools.” The tool is positioned as a developer-first, notebook-centric platform.
30 September 2025
From one piece Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Yeah. I still think math is essential. It's something that shapes your brain, it teaches you to rely on your logical thinking to split big problems into smaller parts, put them in the right sequence, solve them patiently, trying again if it doesn't work.
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You need reproducible builds in order to verify that the app really does what it claims, really encrypts data in a way that it is described on its website. For that you need to make your apps open source for any researchers to have a look at it.
27 September 2025
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18 September 2025
From one piece ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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An abstraction chosen wrongly at the start means a team can never make its software great, however good that team is.Their words
Just imagine you use very bad software and um the team that started the project decided early to use Xamarin and then they never had a chance of making this as good as all the other things you really appreciate on your phone due to this decision no matter how good they are.
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However, we are actually absolutely doing this. It's just the great works are kernels of operating systems, the browser, the um lots of the software platforms, the phones, the um the incredible advances in uh silicon lithography
17 September 2025
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From one piece Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, I think it'll be the same thing that that we'll see an increase in the scope that we're giving that we're willing to give to the robots as they get better and better where initially the scope might be like there is a particular thing you do like you're making the coffee or something. Uh whereas as they get more capable, as their ability to have common sense and a broader repertoire of tasks increases, then we'll give them greater scope. Now you're running the whole coffee shop.
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Like if you answer a question, you just like answered it wrong. It's like well it's not like you can just like go back and like tweak a few things like the person you told the answer to might not even know that it's wrong. Whereas if you're like folding the t-shirt and you messed up a little bit like it's pretty obvious like you can reflect on that, figure out what happened and do it better next time.
9 September 2025
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With Web forms, the burden is on people to adapt to databases. Today's AI models, however, can flip this requirement. That is, they allow people to provide information in whatever form they like and use AI do the work necessary to put that information into the right structure for a database.
8 September 2025
6 September 2025
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PHPStormTheir words
I started using PHPStorm last year and I love it. I honestly don't know how I managed to live without it. It makes it a breeze to refactor a large codebase or source dive some vendor code.
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TupleTheir words
Tuple for pair programming
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TablePlusTheir words
TablePlus (my database GUI of choice)
4 September 2025
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Their words
The baseline of user expectation quality and craft keeps rising.
2 September 2025
From one piece Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
I think regulation of AI is sort of the wrong level of abstraction. Talking about regulating AI as AI is the wrong level of abstraction. And it's like saying we're going to regulate databases or regulate spreadsheets or regulate cars. Well, we do, but not like that.
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Being certain a technology matters tells you almost nothing about where its value will end up being captured.Their words
It wasn't clear that the browser wasn't where the value capture was cuz Microsoft crowbarred its way into dominance in browsers but that turned out not to matter and then all the value is in search advertising and social which were 5 years later and 10 years later and so like you can be very very clear that this is the thing and then still be completely unclear how it's going to work.
28 August 2025
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Their words
It's also worth noting that chat isn't the only way to integrate AI in software products and increasingly agent-based applications outperform chat-only solutions. So expect things to keep changing.
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From one piece How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2] 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A software engineer who is not using a tool like Cursor is working at half productivity or worse.Their words
it's like if you're a software engineer and you're not using something like cursor to do your job, you're probably being half as productive or even worse than you could be.
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And actually the reason I think it's exciting is if you look at like the database space right now there's not one database. If you want to do largecale data analytics you'll choose one thing. If you want to do a transactional data store you'll do another. I think we're moving to that area of models
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if you tell what what jobs are most likely to be automated with the current generation of technology, you would probably put software engineering right at the top. The people building this technology or building the technology that is disrupting their own profession.
From one piece How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2] 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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so it's not a simple matter of programming it's not you know typing into a keyboard until or or I guess asking cursor to do something until a piece of software emerges, it's exploration, it's discovery, it's posing hypotheses and validating or invalidating those again and again and again.
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We can have a breakthrough in our agent architecture on Monday implemented on Tuesday and have it deployed with hundreds of our customers on Wednesday and directly see the impact of of that work.
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And in contrast to software as a service or software you'd buy off a shelf at, you know, Fry Electronics, you know, decades ago, which might help you be marginally more productive, help you get a job done. Agents, in contrast, are actually getting the job done for you. And so you're in essence hiring software to accomplish a task and get it done well.
15 August 2025
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Their words
And the impact of solar array on desert is arguably positive because it shades the ground and improves like soil moisture retention. Um there like if you wanted to reverse desertification, you would basically just deploy solar panels on it and that would pay for the process.
12 August 2025
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Arc BrowserTheir words
Arc Browser: I tried Kagi but too many apps are incompatible with Safari so RIP. set to default.
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pnpmTheir words
Used to recommend yarn. now brew install pnpm as fast node package manager
5 August 2025
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Close to the MachineTheir words
Ellen Ullman's Close to the Machine is a memoir I couldn't believe I hadn't read earlier. Many of her observations about engineering culture feel as relevant today as when she was a programmer in the 1980s
24 July 2025
23 July 2025
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korrents.com
AI will not replace the best programmers; it will make them ten times more productive than they are today.Their words
So the great programmers will be even better, but there'll be even 10X even what they are today. And because there, you'll be able to use their skills to utilize the tools to the maximum, exploit them to the maximum.
16 July 2025
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korrents.com
Permissive licences are the better way to release free software and free content, because they maximise adoption.On changing their mind
Historically, I was a fan of the permissive approach (eg. my blog is under the WTFPL). More recently, I am warming up to the copyleft approach.
4 July 2025
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korrents.com
Most conditional branches in software are strongly biased toward one outcome rather than close to fifty-fifty.Their words
most branches are heavily "biased" one way or another - e.g. a "branch taken" rate of 10% or 90% is more common than 50%
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governing frontier AI requires standards for safety and security, incentives for the leading AI developers to follow those standards, and evidence that the standards are being followed.
14 June 2025
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I think the platform that Lean and other software tools, so GitHub and things like that will allow experimental mathematics to scale up to a much greater degree than we can do now.
12 June 2025
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ViteTheir words
Tailwind and vite are great, no complaints there.
11 June 2025
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clients want a lot more from a software vendor than a solution that performs ABC by XYZ date.
10 June 2025
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korrents.com
AI agents can now do real cognitive work, and writing software is permanently changed as a result.Their words
2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work; writing computer code will never be the same.
8 June 2025
From one piece How I program with Agents 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Graphics chips have far more room for future performance gains than CPUs, which are nearing physical limits.Their words
GPUs are not nearly as restricted in their future progress as CPUs which are far more constrained in how they can physically improve (compiler-driven ILP only goes so far).
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Most software has too few users or too short a lifespan for long-term maintenance costs to matter.Their words
Very few programs ever reach the point that they are heavily used and long-lived. Almost everything has few users, or is short-lived, or both.
5 June 2025
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I do. If you have a passion for computer science, I would. Computer science is obviously a lot more than programming alone, so I would. I still don't think I would change what you pursue. I think AI will horizontally allow impact every field.
3 June 2025
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Opaque, inert and obstructive elements might occupy the same place as full-screen command line interfaces — a powerful niche UI that was a marker in history, passed on by the windowed environment of the multi-tasking, graphical user interface revolution.
2 June 2025
From one piece My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 3 beliefs · fly.io
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All progress on LLMs could halt today, and LLMs would remain the 2nd most important thing to happen over the course of my career.
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LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write. And most code on most projects is tedious. LLMs drastically reduce the number of things you’ll ever need to Google.
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The code in an agent that actually “does stuff” with code is not, itself, AI. This should reassure you. It’s surprisingly simple systems code, wired to ground truth about programming in the same way a Makefile is.
25 May 2025
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Anthropic prompt engineering documentationTheir words
I still think Anthropic have the best prompting documentation of any LLM provider.
24 May 2025
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The Design of the Unix Operating SystemTheir words
The Design of the Unix Operating System - Maurice J. Bach (Prentice Hall, 1986)
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The AWK Programming LanguageTheir words
The AWK Programming Language - Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger (Addison Wesley, 1988)
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Expert C ProgrammingTheir words
Expert C Programming - Peter van der Linden (Prentice Hall, 1994)
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Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed.Their words
Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed. - Robert Love (Addison-Wesley, 2010)
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Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Ed.Their words
Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Ed. - Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati Ph.D. (O'Reilly, 2005)
15 May 2025
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That’s because most clean energy jobs are in deployment and maintenance rather than manufacturing, and since higher costs slow down the rollout of renewables, increasing prices reduces the total number of people working in clean energy (even if the number working in manufacturing increases).
14 May 2025
12 May 2025
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Carbon capture and storage cannot be economically competitive without a policy that prices carbon.Their words
CCS can never be competitive in the sense of working economically in the absence of a policy framework to price in the cost of carbon, unlike clean electricity.
Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate resetliebreich.com
30 April 2025
From one piece Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think the big thing to realize for indie developers right now is there's massive, massive competition in every major genre, and it's very unlikely that unless you just happen to be the world's best at a particular thing that you're going to release a game in an existing highly competitive genre and win.
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But the metaverse and 3D gaming in general needs something that's rather more powerful, more safe, more scalable, and more capable than JavaScript because the metaverse is actually a more difficult technical problem than a webpage.
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The biggest limitation that's built up over time is the single-threaded nature of game simulation in Unreal Engine. We run a single-threaded simulation. If you have a 16 core CPU, we're using one core for game simulation and running with the complicated game logic because single-threaded programming is orders of magnitude easier than multi-threaded programming.
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A lot of what they're facing isn't the challenge of learning a new art. It's friction introduced by failures of programming language design.
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But there are other parts of programming languages that are not subjective but should be fundamental. And when you look at type systems, there is a way to do type systems that gives you mathematical proofs. And every other way of type systems that doesn't give you mathematical proofs is just worse and should ultimately be rejected.
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Major Linux distributions are increasingly shipping system libraries with frame pointers enabled by defaultTheir words
This is getting easier in the lastest versions of Fedora and Ubuntu (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) which are shipping system libraries with frame pointers by default.
29 April 2025
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Everyone’s software is good enough these days. The barriers to entry are low. To stand out, you need to make your product feel great. One way of doing that is through animations.
22 April 2025
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That's much better than current FSD, but much worse than humans or Waymo.
21 April 2025
19 April 2025
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most rewrites fail and most people are over-optimistic about how long they will take
17 April 2025
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Deploying a new technology at scale takes decades, far longer than the people building it imagine.Their words
Deployment at scale takes so much longer than anyone ever imagines.
14 April 2025
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Their words
These systems will be absolutely central to the economy, technology, and national security, and will be capable of so much autonomy that I consider it basically unacceptable for humanity to be totally ignorant of how they work.
31 March 2025
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From one piece Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I then asked myself, is the position of speed unique? and is it available? And the answer was overwhelmingly yes because almost no software was being sold or has ever been sold on the value proposition of speed.
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Well, I strongly believe that we should make business software like we make games because when we make products like we make games, people find them fun. They tell their friends. They fall in love with them.
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And that's why when you have a missionritical product like email where you are interfacing with customers with candidates with investors it turns out to really matter. Email is mission critical. So it's not something where you can simply launch with a halfbaked product.
22 March 2025
From one piece ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Sometimes you have to move fast at the sacrifice of knowledge, and I'm totally on board for that, but I worry that what we'll create is an entire generation of incompetent programmers who can do some amount of things well, but anything that is unique, bespoke, or requires some extra like little elbow grease, might become very difficult. It might cause a whole chasm where juniors remain juniors forever.
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The sense that programming is mostly web programming is a social construct of Twitter, not a picture of the field.Their words
And so we often talk about programming in perspective of web, or something that's pretty narrow, and I think that's just a social construct of Twitter more than anything else, that actually I don't believe it's that representative of the entire programming world out there.
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Most of the time I'm not thinking, I'm programming. I know what I want to do, I want to go as fast as possible because I've been just doing it for so long and I'm so familiar with the general space that it becomes a huge problem for me. I cannot tell you how many times that I've been purely bottlenecked by the fact that I just can't type fast enough and I just need to get it out of my head onto the text editor.
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The editor obviously does not make the programmer, but I think it says a lot about your character as a programmer if you don't know how to use your editor well.
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And if you truly make yourself irrelevant, I would challenge you that you're just doing something that was just slightly too complicated to automate.
17 March 2025
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Brave BrowserTheir words
I recommend Brave browser
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1PasswordTheir words
Combine this with a browser extension to create and Autofill them super fast. For example, I use and like 1Password
16 March 2025
13 March 2025
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Their words
The new trend toward vibe coding and vibe design may be upending the user-centered design paradigm that has remained based on the same ideology since the first UX design projects at Bell Labs, starting in 1947.
12 March 2025
9 March 2025
From one piece Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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However, with so many different software projects out there, each moving so rapidly and depending on and being used by so many other projects, it becomes practically-inevitable that some regressions "like that one" happen, almost constantly.
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I'm hopeful this framework will turn out to be a much more robust style for writing performance-sensitive code, especially over time and as compilers evolve.
7 March 2025
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Vibe coding can execute instructions, but deciding what the software should do and why is not automated. Product managers and designers must still do user research, market analysis, and creative brainstorming. In that sense, vibe coding changes the implementation phase more than the planning phase of the product lifecycle.
2 March 2025
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Claude 3.7 SonnetTheir words
As a Python and JavaScript programmer my favorite models right now are Claude 3.7 Sonnet with thinking turned on, OpenAI’s o3-mini-high and GPT-4o with Code Interpreter (for Python).
13 February 2025
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Treating errors generically is a mistake that leads to fragile software, poor observability and worse experiences.Their words
This is what leads to slop JS/TS software. Treating errors generically like this is a mistake. It leads to fragile software, poor telemetry/observability/debugging, and as a result worse experiences
12 February 2025
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You Need a Budget (YNAB)Their words
You Need a Budget (YNAB) is a simple to use (but sophisticated under the hood) bit of budgeting software that uses the principles of human habits and behavioral finance to make you more conscious and efficient in your spending.
3 February 2025
From one piece DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But really the software engineering agents I think can be done faster sooner than any other agent because it is a verifiable domain. You can always unit test or compile, and there's many different regions of it can inspect the whole code base at once, which no engineer really can.
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But what happens when every company can just invent their own business logic really cheaply and quickly? You stop using platform SaaS, you start building custom tailored solutions, you change them really quickly.
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And they're decent, their hardware is better in many ways than in NVIDIA's. The problem is their software is really bad and I think they're getting better, right? They're getting better, faster, but the gulf is so large and they don't spend enough resources on it or haven't historically, right?
From one piece DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The big picture is that I don't think it's going to be a cliff. I think a really good example of how growth changes is when Meta added stories. So Snapchat was on an exponential, they added stories, it flatlined.
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I think that they're trying to shift the narrative. They're trying to protect themselves. We saw this years ago when ByteDance was actually banned from some OpenAI APIs for training on outputs. There's other AI startups that most people, if you're in the AI culture, were like they just told us they trained on OpenAI outputs and they never got banned.
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until there are feedback loops of open source AI, it seems like mostly an ideological mission. People like Mark Zuckerberg, which is like America needs this and I agree with him, but in the time where the motivation ideologically is high, we need to capitalize and build this ecosystem around, what benefits do you get from seeing the language model data?
30 January 2025
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llmTheir words
This is a command line tool with plenty of plugins that lets you prompt different models. Think of it as a command-line version of Open WebUI. It’s particularly useful for quick scripting and basic automation.
27 January 2025
19 January 2025
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I mean, I've been doing this for over 15 years. If there were any shortcuts, I'd be all over them. There are patterns and there are frameworks, but there's no shortcuts.
14 January 2025
6 January 2025
31 December 2024
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The C Programming LanguageTheir words
The C Programming Language - I've finally gotten to the point in my career where I can appreciate the elegance of this book.
24 December 2024
23 December 2024
18 December 2024
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korrents.com
Discriminated unions are the most important TypeScript feature, and everyone should be using them more.Their words
the most important typescript feature is discriminated unions and everyone should be using them more
16 December 2024
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The Coding Career HandbookTheir words
guides, principles, strategies and tactics from code newbie to senior developer.
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De-Coding The Technical Interview ProcessTheir words
A fresh take on navigating the tech the interview process, tailored for frontend engineers. She wrote the book after she found Cracking the Coding Interview to be too Java/backend-focused. The book comes with 1, 2 and 4-week learning plans as well. A great book to start with.
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Become an Effective Software Engineering ManagerTheir words
A hands-on book for people transitoning to management, starting at a new company or looking to make more of an org-wide impact.
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Tidy First?Their words
"Tidy First? is the first in a series of books about software design. Kent has been coming back to the topic of “taming” software design in a digestible format."
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Building a Career in SoftwareTheir words
An excellent book to navigate how to grow at tech companies. I like the opinionated and concise advice Dan presents, across a variety of topics.
10 December 2024
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Workers AITheir words
Workers AI has dope models for your use. No API keys when used inside Workers.
6 December 2024
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Their words
A personal website is an autobiography. I wish everyone had one. The more we share, the better.
22 November 2024
8 November 2024
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Their words
This is especially severe for open weight models, where deployment is essentially irreversible and mitigations can’t be improved later.
6 November 2024
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsTheir words
The essence of software engineering.
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Lambda the UltimateTheir words
Everything I know about programming language theory, I owe to this site.
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HaskellTheir words
The programming language for the 21st century.
14 October 2024
From one piece Response to DHH 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Building a business on open source is a good thing; the objection is to trademark abuse, not to commercial use.Their words
I think it’s fantastic when businesses are built on open source, the WordPress ecosystem is at least 10B+ a year; Automattic and WP Engine are less than 5% of that.
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An open source project’s trademarks must be defended, and that defence is separate from the software’s licence.Their words
Trademarks must be protected, as evidenced by Rails trademark policy.
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Their words
Many software investors eschew hard tech startups because of their capital intensity, but it’s hard to deny that huge returns are possible in hard tech: just consider SpaceX.
29 September 2024
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FishTheir words
Fish - Alternative command line shell than Zsh, I still use Zsh though.
26 September 2024
From one piece WPE & Trademarks 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This isn’t a money grab: it’s an expectation that any business making hundreds of millions of dollars off of an open source project ought to give back, and if they don’t, then they can’t use its trademarks.
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A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.Their words
If WP Engine wants to find another open source project with a more permissive license and no trademarks, they are free to do so; if they want to benefit from the WordPress community, then they need to respect WordPress trademark and IP.
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Respect for trademarks and other intellectual property is part of what open source means, not a departure from it.Their words
WordPress is licensed under the GPL; respect for copyright and IP like trademarks is core to the GPL and our conception of what open source means.
13 September 2024
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korrents.com
Mastodon's web client is a heavy React app that breaks without scripting and loads slowly on old hardware.Their words
when you send someone a link to a post, they can't read it without loading the entire Mastodon frontend app into their browser, which will is a monster React codebase that will break if they have scripting disabled and also can take up to 30 seconds on older hardware.
11 September 2024
10 August 2024
7 August 2024
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SafariTheir words
For browsers, I use Safari for browsing and Google Chrome for development.
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PostmanTheir words
I use MAMP for WordPress development, Postman for API testing, Notion for notes and task management, Slack and Discord for communication and Keynote for course presentations.
1 August 2024
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Their words, before
I’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.
Their words now
I’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me
26 July 2024
25 July 2024
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Games should not be measured against any outside yardstick — not purpose, not pleasure, not politics.Their words
In my approach, I resist using any external value framework as an ultimate set of criteria against which to measure games’ worth - not purpose, not pleasure, not politics.
21 July 2024
20 July 2024
18 July 2024
15 July 2024
14 July 2024
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Firefox Developer EditionTheir words
Firefox Developer Edition for development/sandboxed work
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HoppscotchTheir words
Hoppscotch for testing APIs, after Insomnia turned to 💩
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BrewTheir words
Brew the package manager for macOS
8 July 2024
From one piece Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The thing open source can actually sell is not the code but access to its maintainers’ attention and expertise.Their words
Clients still pay a fixed monthly retainer to ensure the professional maintenance of the whole portfolio, and to get access to the expertise of all of Geomys’ maintainers.
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From the onset, I envisioned small firms of professional maintainers with thematic portfolios, accommodating diverse maintainers and project sizes, just like the specialized firms of other professionals.
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I started with a rather non-consensus hypothesis: companies want to pay for their critical open source dependencies, but most projects are not selling them a legible way to do so.
17 June 2024
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Their words
At current deployment rates it will take Waymo about 20 years with ZERO fatalities to show they are net as safe as average human driver fatality rates (including the old cars, impaired drivers, etc. in that comparison baseline).
Perspective on Waymo's Safety Progresssafeautonomy.blogspot.com
13 June 2024
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I think life obeys universal principles. I think there is some deep underlying explanatory framework that will tell us about the nature of life in the universe and will allow us to identify life that we can’t yet recognize because it’s too different.
9 June 2024
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My hot take is that JS has the lowest bar of entry to building and being productive (a good thing) but one of the highest bars of any language and stack to building high quality, stable, and reliable software. Very few devs have the expertise to pull off the latter
1 June 2024
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Next.jsTheir words
Web framework: Next.js
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TailwindCSSTheir words
Side note for CSS, I'm cool to use what ever tech available out there that makes my task done quickly & well, I have personally used Bootstrap 3 & 4, Bulma, Lostgrid, Materliaze, Skeleton, Tailwindcss, Styled-components, emotion, CSS modules, Tachyons & made my own micro CSS framework called Unnamed that has over 200 stars on GitHub. Still I prefer using Tailwindcss.
30 May 2024
25 May 2024
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Their words
By all accounts, from people who become memory athletes, they weren’t born with some extraordinary memory, but they practice strategies over and over and over again. The strategy that they use for memorizing a particular thing, it can become automatic, and you can just deploy it in an instant.
23 May 2024
21 May 2024
From one piece Stripe's monorepo developer environment 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Reliable, stable developer tooling matters more than which specific technical choices a team makesTheir words
The best tooling in the world will struggle to make up for "regularly losing a day debugging your environment," and so getting that aspect right can easily outweigh almost any other decisions you make.
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Per-engineer productivity inevitably declines somewhat as an organization and its codebase growTheir words
It is almost inevitable that per-engineer productivity drops to some extent as an organization and codebase grows, even though it's also nearly-impossible to quantify that effect.
16 May 2024
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Their words
People are overreacting to the Remix React Router merge.
7 May 2024
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Their words
That is, labs should make sure that the safety measures they apply to their powerful models prevent unacceptably bad outcomes, even if the AIs are misaligned and intentionally try to subvert those safety measures.
22 April 2024
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korrents.com
When somebody accuses you of being arrogant about an idea, almost all they ever mean is that they disagree with you.Their words
Yeah, it is interesting because, when people react against you by saying you are being arrogant about this, 99.999% of the time, all they mean is I disagree. That’s all they really mean, right?
19 April 2024
From one piece Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive” 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Copyleft does not impose restrictions, but it does impose obligations. The obligations exist to guarantee rights to the users of the software – in other words, to ensure freedoms.
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No free or open source licence may restrict what the software is used for, however objectionable the use.Their words
No such restrictions are found in free or open source software licenses, be they permissive or copyleft – all FOSS licenses permit the use of the software for any purpose without restriction.
15 April 2024
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I'm excited about what this means for the open-source community and research, with the gap between closed-source and open-weight models closing and SOTA-level conversational models being more easily accessible.
2 April 2024
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It marks a watershed moment in open source supply chain security, for better or worse.
1 April 2024
From one piece You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainers’ Turf Now 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This is not the same world that you were part of. The complexity is off the chart; we are hidden layers and layers under the scaffolding. And we are used everywhere.
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If your plans for open-source sustainability or security do not align first and foremost with this population it is not going to achieve anything.
31 March 2024
25 March 2024
From one piece Preventing a “Space Pearl Harbor”: Rep. Turner leads the charge 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Satellites need self-defence zones: a keep-out rule around them is the only workable arms control in orbit.Their words
We accordingly proposed a framework of self-defense zones to “facilitate unilateral defense against a surprise attack on satellites.”
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Based on public commercial data that tells a lot about the military potential of these dual-use robotic spacecraft, we have shown that China can manufacture and deploy 200 such spacecraft as early as 2026, enough to cripple critical US satellites in geosynchronous, highly elliptical, and other orbits, and thus severely degrading space support to wartime operations.
24 March 2024
22 March 2024
From one piece Redis Renamed to Redict 2 beliefs · andrewkelley.me
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Handing stewardship of Redis to a company whose goal is extracting profit was a mistake for the projectTheir words
I think that was an unfortunate move because their goal is mainly to extract profit from the software project rather than to uphold the ideals of Free and Open Source Software.
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In short summary, the licenses limit the freedoms of what one can do with the software in order for Redis Labs to be solely enriched, while asking for volunteer labor, and having already
18 March 2024
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So part of the reason that we deploy the way we do, we call it iterative deployment, rather than go build in secret until we got all the way to GPT-5, we decided to talk about GPT-1, 2, 3, and 4. And part of the reason there is I think AI and surprise don’t go together. And also the world, people, institutions, whatever you want to call it, need time to adapt and think about these things.
14 March 2024
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The lower a layer sits in the software stack, the harder it is for an individual developer to build in it.Their words
the lower we go in the stack, the harder it is for individuals to build.
11 March 2024
18 February 2024
17 February 2024
From one piece Muse retrospective 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Prosumer software needs tens or hundreds of thousands of users for its development costs to be sustainable.Their words
You need tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, to make the cost of development sustainable.
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After that, I think you have to be left with software that serves a deep and hard-to-replace purpose in people's lives.
13 February 2024
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30 January 2024
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I think that the enshittification framework goes a long way to explaining it, moving us out of the mysterious realm of the 'great forces of history,' and into the material world of specific decisions made by named people – decisions we can reverse and people whose addresses and pitchfork sizes we can learn.
24 January 2024
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23 December 2023
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Because patents have fixed term lengths, with small extensions to compensate for the year or so when the drug is under regulatory review, drug developers are incentivized to go after conditions where clinical trials can be completed quickly, all else being equal.
5 December 2023
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In light of the increasing number of closed-source LLMs, it is important to continue to promote an open culture of sharing knowledge, data, and software, from which the NLP community has benefited greatly.
1 December 2023
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GitHub CLITheir words
GitHub CLI - GitHub on the command line. Great for creating PRs, etc.
8 November 2023
6 November 2023
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One thing that drives me crazy about the React ecosystem, and more specifically "tech influencers" and "thought leaders" in the space, is the infantilization of the developers using and working in it. I’m tired of reading takes like TypeScript generics, mapped types, etc should only be needed and used by library authors for most use cases. Or today’s discourse; Don’t use `useCallback’, ‘useMemo’, and React.memo. If you’re building anything beyond a simple CRUD app or a an incredibly focused app with few features, you _will_ need these features.
1 November 2023
26 October 2023
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Despite evaluations, we cannot consider coming powerful frontier AI systems "safe unless proven unsafe". With current testing methodologies, issues can easily be missed. Additionally, it is unclear if governments can quickly build the immense expertise needed for reliable technical evaluations of AI capabilities and societal-scale risks. Given this, developers of frontier AI should carry the burden of proof to demonstrate that their plans keep risks within acceptable limits.
19 October 2023
11 October 2023
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Their words
A number of commentators have consistently predicted that solar cost improvements will level out “this year” since about 1990, and yet if anything deployment, cost decline, and the learning rate have only improved.
1 September 2023
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Their words
What we don't want to happen with AGI, we want to happen with synthetic biology. What we don't want to happen online and software with language, we want for it to happen with bio-based materials.
30 August 2023
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ArcTheir words
Arc, the main web browser I use.
23 August 2023
7 August 2023
14 July 2023
9 July 2023
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Samsung Monitors - 28Their words
I use 2 Samsung Monitors - 28''. Best developer monitor bang for your buck hands down. Works well if you have a ARM based macbook pro.
7 July 2023
From one piece Are We Getting Rid of Product Managers? 2 beliefs · melissaperri.com
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Product management is merging with the GM role as more companies become software companies, not disappearing.Their words
As more and more companies become predominately software companies, I believe the Product Management role and GM roles are going to merge.
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Product management is not going away, but hiring product owners who just feed developers tasks should stop.Their words
I don’t think Product Management is going anywhere, but I do hope the days of hiring Product Owners who just feed developers tasks are done.
29 June 2023
From one piece George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It’s always harder to write software for more specialized hardware. A GPU is pretty generic. If you can’t write an in Nvidia stack, there’s no way you can write a stack for your chip. My approach with Tinygrad is first write a performant NVIDIA stack.
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Of course, when you talk to an AI that’s made by a big company in the cloud, the AI fundamentally is aligned to them, not to you. And that’s why you have to buy a tiny box. So you make sure the AI stays aligned to you.
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So almost if Codex or copilot are helping you, that actually probably means that your framework or library is bad and there’s too much boilerplate in it.
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But the real thing that I want is not something that like tab completes my code and gives me ideas. The real thing that I want is a very intelligent pair programmer that comes up with a little popup saying, “Hey, you wrote a bug on line 14 and here’s what it is.”
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Automating programming is harder than automating driving, because programming is tool complete and driving is not.Their words
I think driving is not tool complete and programming is. Meaning you don’t use the best possible tools to drive. Cars have basically the same interface for the last 50 years. Computers have a radically different interface.
24 June 2023
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At the same time, in order to reduce the probability of someone intentionally or unintentionally bringing about a rogue AI, we need to increase governance and we should consider limiting access to the large-scale generalist AI systems that could be weaponized, which would mean that the code and neural net parameters would not be shared in open-source and some of the important engineering tricks to make them work would not be shared either.
20 June 2023
10 June 2023
30 May 2023
From one piece RedwoodJS’ Next Epoch: All In on React Server Components 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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When it comes to React Server Components, it's still the first inning.
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Building a secure, performant GraphQL API is tricky and adds real cost during early-stage app prototyping.Their words
While we love GraphQL for many use cases, implementing a secure and performant GraphQL API can be tricky and there is a definite cost to requiring it during early prototyping of your app.
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RSC is the future of React. The React team has made this very clear and we are lucky to be in touch with their amazing team members to help us along this path.
25 May 2023
9 May 2023
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PeteyTheir words
The app costs a few dollars up front and then has an optional subscription for unlimited requests, but I would recommend going directly to OpenAI’s developer dashboard, creating your own account, and copy/pasting your own API key into Petey.
26 April 2023
From one piece Performance Excuses Debunked 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the logical conclusion would be that programmers need to take performance more seriously than they have been, not less!
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Performance-aware programming is a skill a working developer can learn in months rather than years.Their words
Learning basic performance-aware programming skills is something a developer can do in months rather than years.
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Software performance is central to long-term business success rather than a niche engineering concern.Their words
Software performance appears to be central to long-term business interests.
25 April 2023
1 March 2023
28 February 2023
From one piece "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Giving up a decade or more of hardware performance to make programming more comfortable is not an acceptable trade.Their words
It simply cannot be the case that we're willing to give up a decade or more of hardware performance just to make programmers’ lives a little bit easier.
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The programming practices taught as best practice are ruinous for performance and should not be followed.Their words
The ideas underlying the “clean” code methodology are almost all horrible for performance, and you shouldn’t do them.
2 February 2023
From one piece I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Volunteerism is self-evidently not sustainable, as people’s life circumstances change.
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Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
This experiment started from the observation that despite being critical for the functioning of the Internet—and, by extension, the economy—the role of open-source maintainer has not yet found a sustainable manifestation.
27 January 2023
21 January 2023
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The temptation to enshittify is magnified by the blocks on interoperability: when Twitter bans interoperable clients, nerfs its APIs, and periodically terrorizes its users by suspending them for including their Mastodon handles in their bios, it makes it harder to leave Twitter, and thus increases the amount of enshittification users can be force-fed without risking their departure.
17 January 2023
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The Linux Programming InterfaceTheir words
The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk – an exhaustive reference on how Linux works. There are about a million chapters, but every individual chapter is pretty short and I find it quite readable.
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Go standard library documentationTheir words
the Go standard library documentation is probably my favourite language reference
14 January 2023
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Their words, before
The Fed needs PCE inflation to average 1.96% for the remainder of the decade in order to hit their AIT target.
Their words now
I assumed they intended inflation to average roughly 2% during the 2020s.
1 January 2023
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Fifty years of miniaturisation have made robotic spacecraft better and cheaper explorers than astronauts.Their words
But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed the balance between robots and humans in space.
26 October 2022
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Template Metaprogramming with C++Their words
I spent the last few weeks reading Template Metaprogramming with C++ by Marius Băncilă. It is currently 50$ on Amazon. Though, technically, the book is about advanced 'template' techniques, it is much more broad and practical. It is one of the 'good programming books'. If you are an experienced C++ programmer, you should give it a peek
8 September 2022
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The Four TendenciesTheir words
Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so understanding this framework lets us make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress and burnout, and engage more effectively.
6 September 2022
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Electric bikes are worth their cost, flaws and all, because they bring the world nearerTheir words
Sure, electric bikes aren't cheap. But I believe they're a rare object to be well worth the cost. This in spite of their annoying flaws, their often bad software, their defective geometries. Because they open the world.
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Vanmoof X3Their words
The Vanmoof is much smarter — the brain and software within it are refined, the app good, the acceleration curves smooth — but the bike is all custom components, and they aren't the highest quality at that.
14 August 2022
25 July 2022
From one piece in which the word column has several meanings, none of them architectural 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Programming, of course, is forgetting, but we need to at least try to be aware of the costs of the abstractions we choose and consider who it is that ends up being forgotten.
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Their words
In my opinion the root cause of this bug is that when a white american developer sees a terminal they immediately interpret it as this idealized cartesian plane where they can lay out any writing they want in neatly-spaced characters that behave in "predictable" ways (in other words, behave exactly like English).
1 June 2022
From one piece Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Rates 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I have argued that the probability of a bad equilibrium is only marginally influenced by the level of debt, but can be much reduced by a contingent rule making the primary balance react to an increase in debt service.
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Multipliers are likely to vary a lot over time and space, but the bulk of the evidence is that they are different from zero, positive for spending, negative for taxes, and that they are stronger when monetary policy does not or cannot react to fiscal policy.
28 May 2022
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Usesrcmnd.app
NotionTheir words
System for notes, knowledge base, and project management. Helps organize and store references, documentation, and roadmaps.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Lucide IconsTheir words
Collection of open-source icons for use in web and mobile applications. Provides a wide range of icons for various use cases.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Edge BrowserTheir words
Modern browser with split-screen functionality. Helps organize different work contexts more efficiently. Yeah I know, I know. It's a Microsoft product.
17 May 2022
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Code has mass. Every additional line of code you don't need is ballast. It weighs your codebase down, making it harder to steer and change direction if you need to.
Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com
7 April 2022
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korrents.com
Climate change is the existential crisis of our timeTheir words
Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. We need more ideas and progress in every sector, including software-based approaches to preventing emissions and sequestering carbon.
1 April 2022
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Likedrcmnd.app
Masters of DoomTheir words
Carmack is a legend to anyone who writes software, and the book offers an unflinching portrait.
2 March 2022
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Plain text files and a basic text editor are enough. This is everything you need for great thinking and writing.
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Free software is designed to be used commercially, but you have to do it correctly. This is a resource which is made available to companies who want to exploit it, but they must do so according to the terms of the licenses.
3 December 2021
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Likedrcmnd.app
Future EthicsTheir words
Bowles' 2018 book provides a useful survey of the various problems tackled by this nascent field, and the frameworks that have emerged to tackle them.
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FaunaTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
KyselyTheir words
To connect to these various databases I am using the incredible library by Sami Koskimäki called Kysely
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
DynamoDBTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
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Mac OSTheir words
I have a lot of feelings about macOS: it is astonishingly painful for developers, but makes up for it with a consistent experience for users.
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Usesrcmnd.app
VimTheir words
For writing software I full-screen a terminal and use Vim. Ctrl+Z for a shell.
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DebianTheir words
Debian is a decent programming environment. It has some of the consistency properties like macOS, but fails unexpectedly.
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From one piece We Are Not Special 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Almost nothing programmers believe is unique to software is actually unique to software.Their words
Almost everything we think is unique about software appears in every other field of engineering.
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Software is far more consistent than any other kind of engineering.
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Plenty would kill to get the same kind of automated testing we treat as a given.
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Software is not uniquely unpredictable; other engineering disciplines are hit by the same surprises and overruns.Their words
To assume that software is uniquely unpredictable is a special kind of arrogance.
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We can change software much faster than anybody else can change their systems.
22 December 2020
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Likedrcmnd.app
WingetTheir words
I use it to setup a machine in an hour from the command line, versus a day before doing it manually.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Windows TerminalTheir words
Windows Terminal - Finally Windows has a modern terminal. You can run shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Windows Subsystem for LinuxTheir words
It really can't be overstated how WSL/WSL2 has put the cherry on top of Windows 10.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
AutoHotKeyTheir words
This little gem is bananas. It's a tiny, amazingly fast free open-source utility for Windows. It lets you automate everything from keystrokes to mice.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
WinMergeTheir words
WinMerge just gets better and better. It's free, it's open source and it'll compare files and folders and help you merge your conflicted source code files like a champ.
4 December 2020
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Usesrcmnd.app
KapTheir words
Other software I use to build stuff includes Netlify for hosting, GitHub for version control and collaboration, SVGO and TinyPNG for optimization, Kap for screen recording, GoatCounter for analytics, and Chrome and Firefox dev tools.
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