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Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.

• “A local, agent-first store that links the written intent behind a code change to its VCS commit and to stakeholder systems such as Jira, Confluence and Linear.” ❤️

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Product designer and entrepreneur; author of Mobile First and Web Form Design; formerly a product director at Google; now building AI products.

• Ask LukeW: Less Walls of Text

  A persistent attribute of AI-powered applications is their propensity to generate text: lots and lots of text. Text requires scanning and scrolling for the useful bits and too much of it gets pretty monotonous pretty qu…

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Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.

• [1/2] https://civicshout.com/p/tell-the-ftc-stop-big-ai-from-hoarding-and-destroying-books US citizens: call on the FTC to stop Supposed Intelligence companies from scanning books to destruction and hoarding the scans. The law should require that if the book is in the public domain, its scanned text be published by the Library of Congress. If the book is still in principle copyrighted, the Library of Congress could publish an offer to pay the copyright holder a reasonable sum for

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Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.

• "You sure this Jira ticket is only 3 story points?"

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

• Scanning Plugins

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Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.

• instructor 1.17 is out cache isolation fixes, better Gemini retries, local PDF support, OpenAI SDK 3 compatibility, and refreshed model examples. lots of small fixes from the issues and PR backlog. thanks to everyone who sent one in

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Designer, illustrator and CSS developer known for single-div CSS illustrations, a yearly portfolio redesign, and a set of single-topic side-project sites.

• Going to spend the next week trying to crush my Nestflix backlog. Can I get the site to 2,000 titles? Stay tuned.

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Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.

• ai-playground — Placeholder project for cloud AI

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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

• How fast is C++26’s std::hive?

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Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.

• I spent this weekend replacing my homegrown task management system with Backlog.md, and I can already notice the improvement with Claude Code. Do yourself a favour and check it out:

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Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.

• Generated and suppressed demand.

  Eight years ago, I wrote about my theory of restoring struggling teams, which came down to four steps: A team is falling behind if each week their backlog is longer than the week before. Solve by hiring more. A team is…

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Latvian full-stack WordPress developer and course creator at WPElevator; blogs since 2007 about the open web, electronics, home automation and sustainable living.

• Somebody should unleash AI agents on the WP trac backlog, have it track all steering decisions and see where we land. We sure could get a core committer skill out this 😅

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

• New supply chain attack this time for npm axios, the most popular HTTP client library with 300M weekly downloads. Scanning my system I found a use imported from googleworkspace/cli from a few days ago when I was experimenting with gmail/gcal cli. The installed version (luckily) resolved to an unaffected 1.13.5, but the project dependency is not pinned, meaning that if I did this earlier today the code would have resolved to latest and I'd be pwned. It's possible to personally defend against these to some extent with local settings e.g. release-age constraints, or containers or etc, but I thin…

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

• https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hacking Shot: "This opens up the potential for hardware attacks (e.g., reading the key from ROM with a scanning electron microscope), side-channel attacks (e.g., using Correlation Power Analysis to leak the key during validation), or other [...] attacks" Chaser: "We noticed that the key from an old Zen 1 CPU was the example key of the NIST SP 800-38B publication and was reused until at least Zen 4 CPUs."

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