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your hex editor should color-code bytes

Why Don’t You Use String Views (as std::wstring_view) Instead of Passing std::wstring by const&?

Here’s why I’ve installed a Dead Man's Switch on my home server

Why Fakes Beat Mocks and Testcontainers

slowql: SQL static analyzer for performance, security, compliance and cost

C++26 is done!

The Last Quiet Thing

GitHub: We going to train on your data after all

Don’t trust, verify

Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

Choose Boring Technology and Innovative Practices

New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level

Is the Future of AI Local?

A rant about resolutions

The Good, the Bad, and the Leaky: jemalloc, bumpalo, and mimalloc in meilisearch

How many branches can your CPU predict?

Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give

Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg

How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?

Invest Your Political Capital

Containers Are Not Automatically Secure

LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats

Ensuring correctness through the type system

FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free

The hidden compile-time cost of C++26 reflection

Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State

System76 on Age Verification Laws

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

Rust zero-cost abstractions vs. SIMD

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase

qman: A more modern man page viewer for our terminals

I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes

Easily Replaceable USB-C Port Spawned By EU Laws

Vulnerability as a Service

Velocity Is the New Authority. Here’s Why

The power play behind Hyperion

Too many satellites? Earth’s orbit is on track for a catastrophe – but we can stop it

codespelunker - CLI code search tool that understands code structure

sandbox-exec: macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool

Reviewing "How AI Impacts Skill Formation"

spix: UI test automation library for QtQuick/QML Apps

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions

Hold on to Your Hardware

The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out

What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You

Modern CSS Code Snippets

You can code only 4 hours per day. Here’s why.

Microsoft’s AI-Powered Copyright Bots Fucked Up And Got An Innocent Game Delisted From Steam

The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Modular Monolith and Microservices: Modularity is what truly matters

How I built Fluxer, a Discord-like chat app

On screwing up

Simplifying Vulkan One Subsystem at a Time

Uses an ESP8266 module and an Arduino sketch to display the local time on a inexpensive analog quartz clock

The cost of a function call

LLVM: Concerns about low-quality PRs beeing merged into main

ReMemory - Split a recovery key among friends

Django: profile memory usage with Memray

Europe’s tech sovereignty watch

What’s up with all those equals signs anyway?

The Retro Web

The Disconnected Git Workflow

“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial

In Praise of –dry-run

Some Data Should Be Code

What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond

10 Years of Wasm: A Retrospective

No, Cloudflare's Matrix server isn't an earnest project

The Rise of Sanityware

Places to Telnet

ICE takes aim at data held by advertising and tech firms

Is It Worth It?

SPAs Are a Performance Dead End

Because coordination is expensive

Blogs Are Back

How I estimate work as a staff software engineer

Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw

An adversarial coding test

Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations

Work friends are the secret to great culture

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

Deep reading can boost your critical thinking and help you resist misinformation – here’s how to build the skill

Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969

Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?

I’m The Captain Now: Hijacking a global ocean supply chain network

New Social Web Working Group at W3C

Why We Don't Use AI

Be Wary of Digital Deskilling

WhatsApp is untrustable

AI Coding Degrades: Silent Failures Emerge

The PERFECT Code Review: How to Reduce Cognitive Load While Improving Quality

Rust At Scale: Scaleway's Big Bet To Become THE European Hyperscaler

We Need to Stop Calling Everything a Mock

worstofbreed.net - We make bad software

Coupling from a big-O perspective

Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Already Understand

How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

Stop Guessing, Start Improving: Using DORA Metrics and Process Behavior Charts

Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026

Getting Real With LLMs

Python Numbers Every Programmer Should Know • Michael Kennedy's Thoughts on Technology

Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI

I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

By how much does your memory allocator overallocate?

TIL: Restarting systemd services on sustained CPU abuse

Thanks AI!

Europe gets serious about cutting US digital umbilical cord

A Modern Recommender Model Architecture

How We Lost Communication to Entertainment

Stop Using Story Points

The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer

How uv got so fast

Gaming Couch – Play Couch Co-Op Games Instantly

Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can't Guess

Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You

Cross-Functional Collaboration in Agile: What It Does and Doesn't Mean

AI's Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

Secure your Rust projects and significantly improve the developer experience with Dev Containers

On Leadership and Being a Lead

Splitting user stories -- the hamburger method

Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers

Do we really need big data centers for AI?

ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server

Not Everything Needs to Be a User Story: Using FDD Features

A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS (Part 1)

Lean Software Development: The Backstory

Notes on Gamma

Over 10,000 Docker Hub images found leaking credentials, auth keys

Test Desiderata 2.0

Bruce Sterling - Fantasy prototypes and real disruption

Practices, Principles, Values

Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

How CRDTs and Rust are revolutionizing distributed systems and real-time applications

In defense of lock poisoning in Rust

Architectural debt is not just technical debt

Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data

Treat test code like production code

Software Failures and IT Management's Repeated Mistakes

Open Source Has Too Many Parasocial Relationships

Open Source Power

"Good engineering management" is a fad

Screw it, I’m installing Linux

In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica

Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search

DeepMind’s latest: An AI for handling mathematical proofs - Ars Technica

How to Avoid Solo Product Leadership Failure with a Product Value Team, Part 1 - Johanna Rothman

Disallow code usage with a custom `clippy.toml`

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

Needy Programs

Floodfill algorithm in Python

Know why you don't like OOP

10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Linux process priorities demystified

Announcing Magika 1.0: now faster, smarter, and rebuilt in Rust

channels-console: Real-time monitoring, metrics and logs for Rust channels

GPU Glossary

The (lazy) Git UI You Didn't Know You Need

Forget Chatbots. You Need a Notebook.

100% coverage is not that trivial

Composable Tests

Automated Equality Checks in C++ with Reflection (C++26)

Introduction to IncusOS

Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust

Game design is simple, actually

A generator, duck typing, and a branchless conditional walk into a bar

Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

Failure to communicate

Text rendering and effects using GPU-computed distances

Just use a button

Serverless Is An Architectural Handicap (And I'm Tired of Pretending it Isn't)

WebDAV Isn't Dead Yet

Async Django: a solution in search of a problem?

Everybody's so Creative!

Amazon's Silent Sacking

Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance

Stop Ignoring the Browser: The Biggest Frontend Shift in a Decade

Flight Path

All-Remote Meetings

How we do large scale retrospectives

Gamma correction on fragment shaders.

API design principle: Don't tempt people to divide by zero

Can We Know Whether a Profiler is Accurate?

HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The Tag

Don't make Clean Code harder to maintain, use the Rule of Three

Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control

Why we didn't rewrite our feed handler in Rust

Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?

Who Owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN Relationships Explained

How to Reward Agile Teams

Const, Move and RVO

Better Agile Adoptions

Programmer Test Principles

ATDD From the Trenches

Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model | ETH Zurich

The static risk fallacy

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information | Tom Burkert

Cancelling async Rust

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did

Stop Avoiding Politics

Too DRY DRY, Hush Hush

Don't Put Logic in Tests

I’ve locked myself out of my digital life

F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project

Useful engineering management artifacts

Redis is fast - I'll cache in Postgres

How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts

Postgres’ Original Project Goals: The Creators Totally Nailed It

Under the hood: Vec

The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source

Test state, not interactions

Why Europe’s new tech laws have the world on edge

9 Things Every Fresh Graduate Should Know About Software Performance

Be Simple

Service offerings from Mastodon

Reflection — C++’s decade-defining rocket engine

The Cache Crash

A deep dive into the ACPI.sys DPC latency problems on Asus ROG laptops

Shai-Hulud: The novel self-replicating worm infecting hundreds of NPM packages

Slow social media

Automating Distro Updates in CI

Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment

Beyond Orthogonality: How Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12,000 Dimensions

Danish Minister of Justice and chief architect of the current Chat Control proposal…

Rating 26 years of Java changes

The Internet Coup: A Technical Analysis on How a Chinese Company is Exporting The Great Firewall to Autocratic Regimes - InterSecLab

The Last Days Of Social Media

What do you call that thing when your vendor gets hacked?

crates.io phishing campaign

🇪🇺YES: Germany is not supporting ChatControl

E-Paper Display Refresh Rate Reaches New Heights

Many Hard Leetcode Problems are Easy Constraint Problems

term.everything: Run any GUI app in the terminal❗

ServerlessHorrors

How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

How Long Are Your Feedback Loops? (Are You On an Agile Death March?)

You Don't Need Animations

Your Phone Already Has Social Credit

Implementing a foil sticker effect

Making XML human-readable without XSLT

Python has had async for 10 years -- why isn't it more popular?

What Every Argument About Sideloading Gets Wrong

Structured bindings in C++17, 8 years later

Imposter Syndrome

Software gardening

Style your underlines

Open Source is one person

Rust for Everyone!

The vulnerability might be in the proof-of-concept

College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101

Trying to get error backtraces in rust libraries right

Inside Windows 3

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

No, Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT

A clever comment style

Code Smells

GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down

How I use Tailscale

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

HTTP is not simple

Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

Cursed Knowledge

New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes

Litestar is worth a look

Hiring Isn’t Enough by Catt Small

Troy Hunt: Everything you wanted to know about SQL injection (but were afraid to ask)

Digital hygiene: Emails

The Generativity Pattern in Rust

New project, new tech stack?

A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat

The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis

Matrix.org - How we discovered, and recovered from, Postgres corruption on the matrix.org homeserver

How to run an LLM on your laptop

Underused Techniques for Effective Emails

A language model built for the public good

The JavaScript Date Quiz

The scary and surprisingly deep rabbit hole of Rust's temporaries

You MUST listen to RFC 2119

Alternative Blanket Implementations for a Single Rust Trait

Graphite | Free online vector editor & procedural design tool

Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization • Buttondown

Agile That Doesn’t Suck Pt 2/2

Agile Was Never Your Problem Pt 1/2

Ticket-Driven Development: The Fastest Way to Go Nowhere

No Time To Learn (Web) Framework X

What accomplishments sound like on software engineering resumes

Deep Down the Rabbit Hole: Bash, OverlayFS, and a 30-Year-Old Surprise

Weird expressions in rust

TDD Antipatterns

Passing Functions to Other Functions in C++

Everyone should copy Thunderbird

Fun with uv and PEP 723

mbake is a Makefile formatter and linter. It only took 50 years!

A family of forks

Introduction to the A* Algorithm

In Praise of “Normal” Engineers

Are LLMs 'useful'?

Matrix.org - Dispelling myths and misinformation

Revisiting Knuth’s “Premature Optimization” Paper

Making GNOME’s GdkPixbuf Image Loading Safer

bento: a computer in a keyboard

PoC Attack Targeting Atlassian’s MCP

The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel

From SDR to ‘Fake HDR’: Mario Kart World on Switch 2 Undermines Modern Display Potential

What causes procrastination for software engineers?

Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI...’”

The Real Cost of Change

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk

The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine

The Myth of Automated Learning - by Nicholas Carr

Tech debt can’t be solved as a roadmap item. It needs to be part of your daily routine

Poison everywhere: No output from your MCP server is safe

Write Unit Tests, Don't Waste Our Money!

Building An Impact Brewery: A Toolkit for R&D Leaders to Drive Impact

Analyzing Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems

A Short History of “Hack”

Extreme Carpaccio

It turns out you can train AI models without copyrighted material

Bonfire's new software lets users build their own social communities

Brainrot: why I quit using ChatGPT

The effects of over-reliance on AI dialogue systems on students' cognitive abilities: a systematic review

beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your daily web browser

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

Tests should not contain logic

Decomplexification

How to fix email encryption

parking_lot: ffffffffffffffff...

SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S

The two types of open source

Own Your Email Domain

The Recurring Cycle of 'Developer Replacement' Hype

Threads Beat Async/Await

Isolates and Compressed References: More Flexible and Efficient Memory Management via GraalVM

Design driven development

GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP

The magic developer wand...

Tools

dynamix: A new take on polymorphism

Google has a big AI advantage: it already knows everything about you

A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine

Reinvent the Wheel

Why old games never die (but new ones do)

Concepts vs type traits

How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation – Sean Heelan's Blog

On "Vibe Coding"

On work processes and outcomes

Remote Prompt Injection in GitLab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

The Copilot Delusion

ChatGPT Heard About Eagles Fans

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard

Interview: Chief maintainer of Qt project on language independence, KDE, and the pain of Qt 5 to Qt 6

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)

Don't Unwrap Options: There Are Better Ways

Coding Without a Laptop - Two Weeks with AR Glasses and Linux on Android

Detecting malicious Unicode

Leeks and leaks

Strong Units Conversions - Fluent C++

When Consultants Should Fire their Client

If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app

Rampant AI Cheating Is Ruining Education Alarmingly Fast

From GOOD to GREAT software engineer — How does the journey of growth look like?

In 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more

Web Browser telemetry - 2025 edition

A Critical Look at MCP

The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization

Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust (by showing me C++)

Flattening Rust's Learning Curve

How to join or concat ranges, C++26

AAA Style (Almost Always Auto)

"AI-first" is the new Return To Office

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI - Dhole Moments

You can’t prevent your last outage, no matter how hard you try

My tips on giving technical talks

Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots

Ways to Make Code Reviews More Effective

Writing User Stories for Back-end Systems

Making PyPI's test suite 81% faster

The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack

Extreme Programming: Whole Team

Testing sync at Dropbox

The Difference Between a Story and a Task

I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

Future of OSL in Jeopardy

Polishing your typography with line height units

You won’t believe how old TDD is

As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work

The raccoons who made computer magazine ads great – Technologizer by Harry McCracken

Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym

Privacy is power

Argument Cultures and Unregulated Aggression

Good engineering managers aren't just hard to find -- they don't exist

How to manage a team of remote employees

Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI

Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi & Vim

Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?

Defold - Cross platform game engine

Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar

These are not the same

The Post-Developer Era

Retrospective technique: “Retro Wedding”

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg voices

Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates - AMD GPUOpen

Datastar - The hypermedia framework.

Elon Musk’s xAI allegedly uses 'illegal' generators to power Colossus supercomputer facility | Tom's Hardware

Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model

The Best Programmers I Know

A feel for the data

What it's like to interview a software engineer preparing with AI

The spice of life

A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse

Distrust Breeds More Distrust

How to develop a sixth sense for the long-term

Pitfalls of Safe Rust

Bored of it

Deadlock-free Mutexes and Directed Acyclic Graphs

Beyond Public Access in LLM Pre-Training Data: Non-public book content in OpenAI’s Models – Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects

AI ambivalence

Ports and fat adapters

CSS System colors

A pattern for obtaining a single value while holding a lock

How to report a security issue in an open source project - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

OpenAI's Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself

How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read

War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged

Servo vs Ladybird

Closing the chapter on OpenH264 – Pixels

Post Apocalyptic Computing

Use the rr debugger without HW performance counters !

git-who: Git blame for file trees

Sun Tzu wouldn't like the cybersecurity industry

C++/Rust Interoperability Problem Statement

Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth

Careless people – Aral Balkan

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids

Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices

HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere

It's all hallucinations

Google’s Gemma 3 is an open source, single-GPU AI with a 128K context window - Ars Technica

What Makes Code Hard To Read: Visual Patterns of Complexity · seeinglogic blog

The Art of Formatting Code

How Long Should Functions Be? - by Kent Beck

Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts - Ars Technica

A Quick Journey Into the Linux Kernel

Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian says

Post-Processing Shaders as a Creative Medium - Maxime Heckel's Blog

How to Write Useful Commit Messages

Microsoft is reportedly plotting a future without OpenAI

What does “PhD-level” AI mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

Zen and the Art of Microcode Hacking

Falsehoods programmers believe about languages

3,200% CPU Utilization

The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity

Who is Free Software for?

Globstar - The Open-Source Static Analysis Toolkit

Binary search as a bidirectional generator | mathspp

AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligence

Troubleshooting: The Skill That Never Goes Obsolete

Your Next Two Zeroes

Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge - Neowin

Structured data extraction from unstructured content using LLM schemas

The Digital Packrat Manifesto

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers

A discussion between John Ousterhout and Robert Martin

How Core Git Developers Configure Git

The web on mobile

Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated | silly business

Your company needs Junior devs

The IPv6 transition | APNIC Blog

Stalkerware apps Cocospy and Spyic are exposing phone data of millions of people

Programming with Math | The Lambda Calculus

exo: Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices 📱💻 🖥️⌚

Introducing Test-Last Development (TLD)

Don't call yourself a senior until you've worked on a legacy project

Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants

ChatGPT’s Political Views Are Shifting Right, a New Analysis Finds

How does a Linux machine connect to the internet, really?

Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies

You Should Use /tmp/ More

The Future Is Too Easy

Poisoning for propaganda: rising authoritarianism makes LLMs more dangerous

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

About GPU Conditionals

String vs &str

SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated!

Big Packages or Many Dependencies

Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations | Quanta Magazine

LLMs: harmful to technical innovation?

Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers | purplesyringa's blog

Supporting the Fediverse, one small act at a time

Why Trees Without Branches Grow Faster: The Case for Reducing Branches in Code

A cross-platform context-aware key remapper

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt - Ars Technica

DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core

Build It Yourself

JavaScript Temporal is coming | MDN Blog

Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp raise funds on Kickstarter

Master the Art of the Product Manager 'No'

The Documentation System

C stdlib isn’t threadsafe and even safe Rust didn’t save us

Building a tiny Linux from scratch

The Essence of Successful Abstractions

Type Inference in Rust and C++

Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

Additional Testing After Refactoring - by Kent Beck

Block AI scrapers with Anubis

Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm

isd (interactive systemd) — a better way to work with systemd units

I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too

How I think about Zig and Rust

Prototyping in Rust

Issues with Color Spaces and Perceptual Brightness — John Austin

Sidebar #3: Two Flavors of Medium Risk - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Thinking About Risk - Sidebar #2: The Swiss Cheese Model - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Thinking About Risk - Sidebar #1: "Exposure" - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Django vs. FastAPI, An Honest Comparison

Open source and its power demonstrated in PostgreSQL

WordPress is in trouble

Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg

Bad idea: Developer experience is equivalent to productivity

HipScript

An Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter

TikTok knows its app is harming kids, new internal documents show

Overcoming Resistance to Extreme Programming

Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions - Ars Technica

Rules for Writing Software Tutorials

Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

Performance of LLMs on Advent of code 2024

Software Design is Knowledge Building

The web is too big, or scaling down

Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech - Bert Hubert's writings

Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician

My colleague Julius

Problem Driven Development | Stay SaaSy

This is Your Brain On Surveillance: New Study Reveals How Awareness of Being Watched Alters Our Brains - The Debrief

Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated

AI and Internet Hygiene - by kate wagner - the late review

Bluesky at a crossroads as users petition to ban Jesse Singal over anti-trans views, harassment

Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should? · mcyoung

An Undefeated Pull Request Template

Census III of Free and Open Source Software

Demo Driven Development

The 6 Mistakes You’re Going to Make as a New Manager

Reverse engineering of the Pentium FDIV bug

An introduction to thinking about risk - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

New era of slop security reports for open source

Building A Strong Ownership Culture in A Team

Core copyright violation claim moves ahead in The Intercept’s lawsuit against OpenAI

If Not React, Then What?

First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released - Software Freedom Conservancy

SmolVLM - small yet mighty Vision Language Model

Pourquoi les médias devraient créer des serveurs Mastodon maintenant

Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?

if constexpr requires requires { requires }

X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts

Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization

Unsafe for work

SLAX: an alternative syntax for XSLT which is tailored for readability and familiarity

OpenAI blamed NYT for tech problem erasing evidence of copyright abuse

The two factions of C++

‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought

the tech utopia fantasy is over

FireDucks : Pandas but 100x faster

AAA - Analytical Anti-Aliasing

What Is a Senior Engineer, Anyway?

ChatGPT is Slipping

Elon Musk's X is hemorrhaging users to Threads and Bluesky

Going a Little Further

Retrofitting spatial safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++

Real Ways To Maintain Your Technical Edge As An Engineering Manager | by Alex Ponomarev | Engineering Manager’s Journal | Oct, 2024 | Medium

Seer - a gui frontend to gdb

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Are Struggling to Build More Advanced AI - Bloomberg

What makes concurrency so hard?

No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains

Opposite of Cloud Native is?

Voted in America? This Site Doxed You

How the New sqlite3_rsync Utility Works

Long Distance Relationships

A conceptual model of ATProto and ActivityPub

HTML link, or button, that is the question

A Map of Sync

C++, Complexity, and Compiler Bugs

Does Open Source AI really exist?

How to profile a performance issue using Spring Boot profiling tools

On Crafting Painterly Shaders

the death of the architect

Vector Databases Are the Wrong Abstraction

Matrix 2.0 Is Here!

What You Can Learn from Just Seven Pages by Hannah Arendt

Platform Strategy and Its Discontents

Introducing zizmor: now you can have beautiful clean workflows

How to make Product give a shit about your architecture proposal

How to not be a prioritization machine

Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity promote scientific racism in AI search results

Framework overload: when convenience dulls innovation in software development

Bookmark Keywords

Introducing quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint

Using uv to develop Python command-line applications

Learning to learn

How do we evaluate people for their technical leadership?

You Should Probably Pay Attention to Tokenizers

SMURF: Beyond the Test Pyramid

Big Tech has given itself an AI deadline

Developing a Beautiful and Performant Block Editor in Qt C++ and QML

This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages

Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos

Be Suspicious of Success

What’s With All the Trumpy VCs?

Should you use uv’s managed Python in production?

Graphics Tricks from Boomers

Why make software?

The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online

Stop using Brave Browser

You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars

Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms

LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem

Approaches to concurrent programming

The Static Site Paradox

Building Real-Time Global Illumination

Put business logic in the application, not the database

It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word - The Atlantic

Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public!

Inside Elon Musk’s AI party at OpenAI’s old headquarters

Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure

The Fastest Mutexes

I-XRAY

Ethical Applications of AI to Public Sector Problems - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

W3C 30th anniversary clip

Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable

Lies, Damn Lies, And Surveys About AI – ideatrash

std::array in C++ isn't slower than array in C

Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

I am tired of AI

Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I

Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate

Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch

git-absorb: git commit --fixup, but automatic

Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug | WIRED

similar, but different

Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source

Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature

Peering Forward: C++'s next decade

Refactoring Python with 🌳 Tree-sitter & Jedi

Overview of cross-architecture portability problems – Michał Górny

The Python Package Index Should Get Rid Of Its Training Wheels | Loris Cro's Blog

OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications | OWASP Foundation

I Like Makefiles

We have lift-off! Element X, Call and Server Suite are ready!

DORA Metrics At Work. How we doubled our team’s delivery…

Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel after decades of debate

DirectX Adopting SPIR-V as the Interchange Format of the Future

Is Tor still safe to use?

Goodhart's Law in Software Engineering

Larry Ellison's AI-Powered Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here

The Subprime AI Crisis

The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has

PixiJS | The HTML5 Creation Engine

Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript™

Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer stirs turmoil over smog in Memphis : NPR

Backup strategies for SQLite in production

Building Aggressively Helpful Teams

Fediverse Discovery Providers

2024: 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML

Why I Prefer Exceptions to Error Values

Why some of us like "interdiff" code review systems (not GitHub) · GitHub

LazyFS: A FUSE Filesystem which can be used to simulate data loss on unsynced writes

The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending - The Verge

The Latency/Throughput Tradeoff: Why Fast Services Are Slow And Vice Versa

In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

Challenging The Myths of Generative AI

Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art

Bypassing airport security via SQL injection

Why Playwright is less flaky than Selenium

Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again

There can't be only one

How Telegram's Founder Pavel Durov Became a Culture War Martyr

Top Programming Languages 2024 - IEEE Spectrum

What RSS Needs

Is the Open Source Bubble about to Burst?

Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog

OpenSSH Backdoors

Building with purpose

Being on The Semantic Web is easy, and, frankly, well worth the bother

Toasts are Bad UX – Max Schmitt

uv: Unified Python packaging

Fellowship for Maintainers | Sovereign Tech Fund

Why We Picked AGPL - ParadeDB

blocking=render: Why would you do that?!

Good Retry, Bad Retry: An Incident Story

The fastest way to copy data between Postgres tables

PostgreSQL masking and obfuscation tool

Anime girl breaking the fourth wall

Approximating sum types in Python with Pydantic

The Dying Web

‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections | WIRED

High-precision date/time in SQLite

Stop Team Topologies. Reevaluating Team Topologies: A… | by Martijn Oost | Jul, 2024 | Medium

Build metrics and budgets with git-metrics

Store Code Discussions in Git using Git Notes

A New Type of Neural Network Is More Interpretable - IEEE Spectrum

What the heck are reverse mapped types?

Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case - The Verge

Reliable JavaScript benchmarking with Tachometer

How to Get or Create in PostgreSQL

Enum class improvements for C++17, C++20 and C++23

The difference between undefined behavior and ill-formed C++ programs

Code auditing productivity multiplier.

Known tags and settings suggested to opt out of having your content used for AI training.

Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions

Simulating worlds on the GPU: Four billion years in four minutes

Third-party cookies have got to go | W3C

Scope? How about we talk about thoroughness instead? - The Engineering Manager

Tracing the evolution of a Python function with git log

Zen 5’s 2-Ahead Branch Predictor Unit: How a 30 Year Old Idea Allows for New Tricks – Chips and Cheese

How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us

Give Me the Green Light Part 1: Hacking Traffic Control Systems — Red Threat

What's the point of std::monostate? You can't do anything with it!

Tests you love to read, write and change

Gotchas with SQLite in Production

C++ Must Become Safer

Story Points are Pointless, Measure Queues

22 Common Filesystem Tasks in C++20

German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement | Ars Technica

Standups: Individual → Teammate - by Kent Beck

Dirty writes – Surfing Complexity

X-Ray vision for Linux systems | 0x.tools

Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (St Louis, MO, USA) – Sutter’s Mill

Google’s greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years | Ars Technica

Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag | TechCrunch

Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites

Breaking out of nested loops with generators | mathspp

Local, first, forever

Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets

Of Psion and Symbian - by Bradford Morgan White

The People’s AI – Doc Searls Weblog

Licensing teams will target unwitting Oracle Java users • The Register

I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You? | Nightingale

Regular JSON – Neil Madden

Edward Snowden Says OpenAI Just Performed a “Calculated Betrayal of the Rights of Every Person on Earth”

A Note on Essential Complexity

Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure

DDoS attacks can threaten the independent Internet

Simple sabotage for software · Erik Bernhardsson

Joining Strings in Python: A "Huh" Moment - Veronica Writes

Microsoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack — ProPublica

Microsoft delays Recall again, won’t debut it with new Copilot+ PCs after all | Ars Technica

Optimal SQLite settings for Django

Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered

AI chatbots are intruding into online communities where people are trying to connect with other humans

Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash

You'll regret using natural keys

BenchExec: A Framework for Reliable Benchmarking and Resource Measurement

Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? | The ryg blog

To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language | MIT News

arighi's blog: Extend your battery life with scx_rustland

Don't Microservice, Do Module

The next decade of the web | James' Coffee Blog

What is a collision? — On Error Resume Next

Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has | Ars Technica

BitKeeper, Linux, and licensing disputes: How Linus wrote Git in 14 days

Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

UI Density || Matthew Ström, designer-leader

CADmium: A Local-First CAD Program Built for the Browser

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC | Ars Technica

stract: web search done right

How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ghost town.

OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk, but the new ChatGPT release can? - Vox

Beyond public key encryption – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering

Snapshot Testing For the Masses

Extensions for GNU Make

GPUs Go Brrr · Hazy Research

An informal comparison of the three major implementations of std::string - The Old New Thing

Google Testing Blog: Test Failures Should Be Actionable

Simplicity is An Advantage but Sadly Complexity Sells Better

What You Need to Know about Modern CSS (Spring 2024 Edition) – Frontend Masters Boost

AI Copilots Are Changing How Coding Is Taught - IEEE Spectrum

Radio Free Fedi - Sounds from the Fediverse to the Universe

We can have a different web

Latest Google layoffs hit the Flutter and Python groups | Ars Technica

pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale

Save the Web by Being Nice

A Free-Space Diffraction BSDF

Practical parsing with PEG and cpp-peglib - Bert Hubert's writings

The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down - The Verge

Keep Out! — Little Workshop

Reflectively constructing enums at runtime - Highly Suspect Agency

Guiding users away from cd and ls :: Terminal Click — Bringing Dead Text to Life

Coverage Guided Fuzzing - Extending Instrumentation to Hunt Down Bugs Faster! - Include Security Research Blog

HTML attributes vs DOM properties - JakeArchibald.com

Tips on Adding JSON Output to Your CLI App - Brazil's Blog

AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?

Create graphs from your CommonJS, AMD or ES6 module dependencies

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

Traces the shared-object dependencies of a binary, and graphs them

WebXR retro computer simulation | Dom Pajak

Mental Health in Software Engineering

What we talk about when we talk about ‘root cause’ · GitHub

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it? • Buttondown

Hermit: A reproducible container

Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets | Ars Technica

ratarmount: Access large archives as a filesystem efficiently

The lifecycle of a code AI completion

Thoughts on Pair Programming - DEV Community

Building My First Homelab Server Rack · mtlynch.io

Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected | Aalto University

On Invariance and Inconsistency

A ‘Law Firm’ of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats as an SEO Scam

German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice

Improvements to static analysis in the GCC 14 compiler | Red Hat Developer

Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability

Ping Me, Please!

AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them • The Register

NTP Pool - The Internet Timekeeper | RIPE Labs

LLaMA Now Goes Faster on CPUs

A proposal to add signals to JavaScript.

Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models

Optimizing SQLite for servers

Git as debugging tool - Lucas Seiki Oshiro

TDD: You're Probably Doing It Just Fine - The Code Whisperer

3D DOM viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM topographically

Two open source projects with great documentation

A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates | Audioholics

How People Create and Destroy Value with Generative AI | BCG

Have We Reached Peak AI?

Google Ordered To Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Videos

Mozilla fixes two Firefox zero-day bugs exploited at Pwn2Own

Hotel hotspot hijinks - P.T.C.

The wrong way to speed up your code with Numba

Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds

Microsoft reportedly runs GitHub's AI Copilot at a loss • The Register

Vision Pro is an over-engineered “devkit” // Hardware bleeds genius & audacity but software story is disheartening // What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right // Why Meta could finally have its Android moment – Hugo's Blog

The demise of coding is greatly exaggerated

What Mob Programming is Bad At • Buttondown

My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing | lisyarus blog

Breaking Down Tasks - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

On The Importance of Getting The Foundations Right - Cybernetist

C++ safety, in context – Sutter’s Mill

A TUI Git client inspired by Magit

cohost! - "Rotation with three shears"

Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap – Terence Eden’s Blog

I'm a programmer and I'm stupid

Lemmings: Can You Dig It?

KDE Neon shows that the Plasma 6 Linux distro is something truly special | ZDNET

We’re told AI neural networks ‘learn’ the way humans do. A neuroscientist explains why that’s not the case

Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software

European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls | Ars Technica

French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of GPL – Copyleft Currents

Twenty Years Is Nothing – De Programmatica Ipsum

Google Testing Blog: Increase Test Fidelity By Avoiding Mocks

List of 2024 Leap Day Bugs

Progressive Web Apps in EU will work fine in iOS 17.4

The Bureaucratization of Agile. Why Bureaucratic Software Environments… | by Kevin Meadows | Feb, 2024 | Medium

Agile software promises efficiency. It requires a cultural shift to get right

HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD - Phoronix

How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum - The Pragmatic Engineer

MDN Curriculum

Unreasonably effective - How video games use LUTs and how you can too

Jevons Paradox doesn’t always apply to software

Home Screen Advantage - Infrequently Noted

Write Dumb Code — Matthew Rocklin

Bridging to Bluesky: The open social web, consent, and GDPR — UlrikeHahn

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds - Open RSS

Up to 10x faster strings for C, C++, Python, Rust, and Swift, leveraging SWAR and SIMD

Git Tips 3: Really Large Repositories

Blazingly 🔥 fast 🚀 memory vulnerabilities, written in 100% safe Rust. 🦀

Anatomy of a whistleblowing system

100 things you can do on your personal website | James' Coffee Blog

ActivityPub Server in a Single PHP File – Terence Eden’s Blog

Non-code contributions are the secret to open source success · GitHub

Not just NVIDIA: GPU programming that runs everywhere

Tracking Engineering Time - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

CUDA on AMD GPUs

Too dangerous for C++

Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability - IEEE Spectrum

Mastering Programming - by Kent Beck

Open-source data multitool | VisiData

VirtualBox KVM public release — Cyberus Technology

Rust Won't Save Us: An Analysis of 2023's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities – Horizon3.ai

When "letting it crash" is not enough

Postgres is Enough · GitHub

We've been waiting 20 years for this - The History of the Web

Browsers Are Weird Right Now – Tyler Sticka

Stract search engine

The European regulators listened to the Open Source communities! - Voices of Open Source

Microsoft is seeking a software architect to port Microsoft 365 to Rust | TechSpot

Announcing Interop 2024 – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality'

Disney Unveils the HoloTile Floor

This Web Page is Best Viewed in the EU

On “owning” software - avdi.codes

Fairly Trained launches certification for generative AI models that respect creators’ rights

Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users | Electronic Frontier Foundation

TDD Revisited - Ian Cooper - NDC Porto 2023 - YouTube

Journey to the Centre of the JVM — Daniel Spiewak

Trunk Based Development

The Open Source Sustainability Crisis

Handling external API errors: A resumable approach

Cancel your meetings if you can live with the outcome - Andy Grunwald

LeftoverLocals: Listening to LLM responses through leaked GPU local memory | Trail of Bits Blog

AI poisoning could turn open models into destructive “sleeper agents,” says Anthropic

Beware of misleading GPU vs CPU benchmarks

Using "will" and "should" in technical writing | James' Coffee Blog

Speedbump: TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latency

Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies – The Markup

OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare”

Where is all of the fediverse?

Meta ignores the users’ right to easily withdraw consent

Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service | Proton

Tidy First? | Henrik Warne's blog

Where have all the websites gone?

Python 3.13 gets a JIT

The browsers biggest TLS mistake

A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

SSH based comment system

My Diverse Hiring Playbook - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

This holographic camera turns any window into an invisible camera | Digital Camera World

Statically enforcing frozen data classes in Python | Redowan's Reflections

Speed up your code: don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64 · GitHub

SQLALchemy vs Django ORM | Alexey Evseev

Occupancy explained

Why large companies and fast-moving startups are banning merge commits

The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement - The Verge

How to (and how not to) fix color banding

Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content - The Verge

On chains and complex systems – Surfing Complexity

So You Want to Optimize Your Code?

SMTP Smuggling - Spoofing E-Mails Worldwide - SEC Consult

Google OAuth is broken (sort of) - Truffle Security

Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays • Buttondown

Managing Technical Debt - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real

Medusa: Simple Framework for Accelerating LLM Generation with Multiple Decoding Heads

Technical Debt is not real

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?

How many CPU cores can you actually use in parallel?

Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse - The Verge

A curiously recurring lifetime issue

The AI trust crisis

Spritely and Veilid: Exciting Projects Building the Peer-to-Peer Web

New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android

Kernel vs. User-Level Networking: Don't Throw Out the Stack with the Interrupts | Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems

Real-world match/case

Epic v. Google: everything we’re learning live in Fortnite court

Canon TDD - by Kent Beck - Software Design: Tidy First?

Painting with Math: A Gentle Study of Raymarching - Maxime Heckel's Blog

The SQL Murder Mystery

W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development inflection with Godot Engine

The Importance of Career Laddering | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks

Toxic comments are associated with reduced activity of volunteer editors on Wikipedia | PNAS Nexus | Oxford Academic

Introducing Wikifunctions: first Wikimedia project to launch in a decade creates new forms of knowledge – Wikimedia Foundation

Introducing Gemini: Google’s most capable AI model yet

PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks - The Verge

Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack

First decide how to decide: “one weird trick” for easier decisions - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Mobilizon V4: the maturity stage – Framablog

"Smartifying" my Hi-Fi system

When static types make your code shorter

Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator | Ars Technica

Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data

Return to office is dead, Stanford economist says. Here’s why

You don't need JavaScript for that - HTMHell

Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates | Ars Technica

How to do annual planning and strategy for an engineering organization — Lena Reinhard

ChatGPT's One-year Anniversary: Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching up?

Seamless Communication - AI at Meta

You (probably) don't need DateTime · Scorpil

Code is run more than read

The Weirdest Bug I’ve Seen Yet

Using Polars in a Pandas world

An ode to the neo-grotesque web | Redowan's Reflections

Distribute and run LLMs with a single file

KDE's 6th Megarelease - Beta 1 - KDE Community

Modern C++ Programming Course (C++11/14/17/20)

New Outlook is good, both for yourself and 766 third parties

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 plans for Wayland and Xorg server

PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas! – Framablog

Neil Gaiman's Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet - Cal Newport

Ray Marching Fog With Blue Noise « The blog at the bottom of the sea

Where Is OpenCV 5? - OpenCV

UK school pupils ‘using AI to create indecent imagery of other children’

On harmful overuse of std::move - The Old New Thing

cohost! - "Paper: You Want My Password or a Dead Patient?"

Supporting Sustainability

Software Development and Postmortems

Retries – An interactive study of common retry methods – Encore Blog

An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid

How large pull requests slow down development

A close encounter with false sharing | More Stina Blog!

75% of Software Engineers Faced Retaliation Last Time They Reported Wrongdoing - Engprax

Making an E-Paper Picture Frame

Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox

How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]? – Daniel Lemire's blog

Cryptographers Solve Decades-Old Privacy Problem - Nautilus

It's Time For A Change: datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated - miguelgrinberg.com

Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years - IEEE Spectrum

Upgrade your Development Environments with Devbox | Alan Norbauer

No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon | Ars Technica

Why Rust in Production? | Corrode Rust Consulting

Blender 4.0

The Use Cases and Benefits of SVCB and HTTPS DNS Record Types

5 Skills the Best Engineers I Know Have in Common

RFC 9420 – A Messaging Layer Security Overview

Don’t Build AI Products The Way Everyone Else Is Doing It

67 Weird Debugging Tricks Your Browser Doesn't Want You to Know | Alan Norbauer

no hello

What Happens When You Enter a URL into a Browser

Introducing Steam Deck OLED

10 hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job

5 Inconvenient Truths about TypeScript

Critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence server is under “mass exploitation” | Ars Technica

Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components.

A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends

dotree: A small, interactive command runner

tailspin: 🌀 A log file highlighter

AI Entity Resolution: Bridging Records Across Human Languages - TerminusDB

Android Developers Blog: Increasing trust for embedded media

Facebook owner Meta faces EU ban on targeted advertising | Reuters

AI Godfather Warns Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis Want to Control AI

How to (and how not to) design REST APIs · stickfigure/blog Wiki · GitHub

Adobe is selling fake AI images of war in Israel-Palestine

Base64 Encoding, Explained

Transform Matrices are Great and You Should Understand Them

Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin - And a Dinosaur

Why you should probably be using SQLite | Epic Web Dev by Kent C. Dodds

Help Everyone Do Better Security

Internet Artifacts

The Cloud Computer / Oxide

The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop

Salt Labs | Oh-Auth - Abusing OAuth to take over millions of accounts

A Journey Into Shaders

From Twitter to X, Elon Musk’s transformation from free speech defender to champion of disinformation | RSF

Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework | jakelazaroff.com

Jina AI Launches World's First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding, Rivaling OpenAI

Advice to a novice programmer

My 2023 all-flash ZFS NAS build

Europe’s CSAM-scanning plan is a tipping point for democratic rights, experts warn | TechCrunch

Private Estimates, Public Progress - by Kent Beck

Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?

The Three Cs: 🤝 Concatenate, 🗜️ Compress, 🗳️ Cache – Harry Roberts – Web Performance Consultant

O3DE

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI | MIT Technology Review

A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database – Jon Udell

Stealing OAuth tokens of connected Microsoft accounts via open redirect in Harvest App | 0xcrypto

Refactoring has a price. Not refactoring has a cost. Either way, you pay.

Google Testing Blog: Improve Readability With Positive Booleans

Inside STL: The different types of shared pointer control blocks - The Old New Thing

Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics | EleutherAI Blog

Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine | Ars Technica

To Design or Not To Design? - by Kent Beck

Fluid Simulation

Encrypt. Now.

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs | jakelazaroff.com

On Importance of Naming in Programming | Wasp

Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com – WordPress.com News

WordPress.com blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms | TechCrunch

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible - Nieman Reports

HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: deconstructing the record-breaking attack

Postgres: the next generation. Investing in the next generation of committers. – James Governor's Monkchips

Coordinated Disclosure: 1-Click RCE on GNOME (CVE-2023-43641) - The GitHub Blog

VA hospital's IT snafu blamed on cat's keyboard surfing • The Register

API Best Practices: Foundations of Robust and Efficient APIs

BBC Gives Up On Threads (By Instagram), Sticks With Mastodon — Darnell (Seize The Day)

OCuLink as an eGPU and cheap PCIe connectivity solution for laptops and mobile devices

Cloud Costs Every Programmer Should Know

Seniority and self-management: you don't have to do this alone - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup

Python 3.12: what didn't make the headlines - Bite code!

Conventional Comments

Lessons From Debugging

Dependency Whac-A-Mole

Flexbox Froggy - A game for learning CSS flexbox

What Predicts Software Developers’ Productivity?

Python 3.12 Preview: Static Typing Improvements – Real Python

Was Javascript really made in 10 days? • Buttondown

3x Explore, Expand, Extract • Kent Beck • YOW! 2018 - YouTube

Smooth Database Changes in Blue-Green Deployments · Django Beats

GUIDs - How I messed up my RSS feed :: TheOrangeOne

Network health overview with mtr, ss, lsof and iperf3 | Medium

Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust

How Many Direct Reports Should a Manager Have? - The Engineering Manager

Ditch That Else

Recent advances in computer science since 2010? - Theoretical Computer Science Stack Exchange

Style with Stateful, Semantic Selectors | Ben Myers

What does a CTO actually do?

Supply Chain Issues in PyPI - by Stian Kristoffersen

Matrix.org - Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix

Long-term support for Linux kernel to be cut as maintainence remains under strain

Java 21 Is Available Today, And It's Quite The Update | Foojay.io Today

We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score | iFixit News

Your New Apple Watch Series 9 Won’t Be Carbon Neutral | WIRED

SQL join flavors

Should I Rust or should I go?

Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-up Call on the Importance of Open Source in Gaming – Ramatak Inc.

If a hammer was like AI…

Multi-page web apps

Death by a thousand microservices

Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age - Long Now

An Internet of PHP – Timo Tijhof

New EU Rules: Smartphones and Tablets will follow new ecodesign requirements by June 2025! - Right to Repair Europe

TDD Doesn't Force Good Design • Aaron Bruce | aaronbruce.com

The Top Programming Languages 2023 - IEEE Spectrum

How I joined the bug 323 community | Blog | Superflous Returnz | ptilouk.net studios

Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation

What I wish I knew when I became CTO

X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI training

USENET, the original social network, is under new management

How to pass a coding interview with me | Robert Heaton

Social Media Decline: Ending for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google - The Verge

WTF is the Lean Web, anyways? | Go Make Things

Elixir Saves Pinterest $2 Million a Year In Server Costs

C++ Papercuts :: The Coded Message

UX Design Patterns for Loading

Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee (Guest Blog Post) - Technology & Marketing Law Blog

We Call on FOSS Contributors to “Exit Zoom” - Software Freedom Conservancy

An energy-efficient analog chip for AI inference | IBM Research Blog

JLA - Compatibility Checker

complex simple good bad code

This Is What Happens When People Start Actually Reading Privacy Policies – The Markup

Debian Celebrates 30 years! - Bits from Debian

Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc | Ars Technica

Ansika: One-line Installer for Smoother Employee Onboarding

Making Illegal States Unrepresentable

Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Python cocktail: mix a context manager and an iterator in equal parts

Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For | Techdirt

Splitting the Web

When the wizards of the web met - The History of the Web

Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful

The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media - BBC R&D

Overloading arithmetic operators with dunder methods | Pydon't 🐍 | mathspp

From Napoléon to Macron: How France learned to love Big Brother – POLITICO

Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget

Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython

On levelling, learning and development - Robbie Clutton

Google vs. the Open Web

Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing - The Old New Thing

Intro | Putting the "You" in CPU

Introducing pg_embedding extension for vector search in Postgres and LangChain - Neon

WebGPU: the cross-platform graphics API of tomorrow - Chrome Developers

DocuSeal | Open Source Document Signing

Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh”

Create an advanced search engine with PostgreSQL

DisplayPort: A Better Video Interface | Hackaday

What is a Unit Test? (The Answer Might Surprise You)

Comparing Queuing Strategies in Distributed Systems

Software engineers hate code.

Test Against Reality

Snapshot Testing

The Most Powerful Law in Software

Toot toot! Mastodon-powered Blog Comments

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement - The Verge

The Advantages Of A Polyglot Programmer | by Jan Kammerath | Jul, 2023 | Medium

Four companies must stop using Google Analytics | IMY

The hottest new perk in tech is freedom

Quadratic C.I. Cost Growth - by Utsav Shah

Artificial Inteligence: why I'll not hashtag my art #HumanArt, #HumanMade or #NoAI - David Revoy

Programming Languages Going Above and Beyond

You should break the Law of Demeter

Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022 | Google Open Source Blog

A Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning

XML is the future - by Nobody has time for Python

Google doesn't want its employees using Bard code • The Register

About GitHub's use of your data - GitHub Docs

Twilight Of The Programmers

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

Criminalization of encryption : the 8 december case – La Quadrature du Net

std::shared_ptr is an anti-pattern | Dmitry Danilov

🧠 Cognitive Load Developer's Handbook

Style your RSS feed

We need more of Richard Stallman, not less

OpenLLM: An open platform for operating large language models (LLMs) in production

Squeezing a Little More Performance Out of Bytecode Interpreters · Stefan-Marr.de

The best Python feature you cannot use

Some tests are stronger than others • Buttondown

GitHub - imsnif/diskonaut: Terminal disk space navigator 🔭

Describing Descriptors | Pydon't 🐍 | Mathspp

Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots

60 terrible tips for a C++ developer

Removing uncertainty: the tip of the iceberg

‘No regrets,’ says Edward Snowden, after 10 years in exile | Edward Snowden | The Guardian

CLI tool to insert spacers in command output to provide visual markers of when things happened

Jim Highsmith, Co-creator of the Agile Manifesto, Storyteller, Adventurer - YouTube

How much memory is needed to run 1M Erlang processes? - Hauleth

LLMs are good at playing you

Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak

Debugging Outside Your Comfort Zone: Diving Beneath a Trusted Abstraction

ugrep - A faster, user-friendly and compatible grep replacement.

GitHub - bloomberg/pystack: 🔍 🐍 Like pstack but for Python!

ReactPy

On Software Dependency Engineering - HackMD

Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn't Apply To AI Training

How to discover all the data sources, low-fuss way

Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control

The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth - YouTube

5 Things Founders, Investors and Recruiters Should Know about the CTO role | by Marc van Neerven | CTO-as-a-Service | Medium

GitHub - Xfennec/progress: Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd, ... (formerly known as cv)

Security implications of HTTP response headers | Snyk

🤓 "Boring" is just one strategy 🥱

Read Every Single Error | Pulumi Blog

Introducing DevPod - Codespaces but Open Source

You should be reading academic computer science papers - Stack Overflow Blog

LLMs and plagiarism: a case study - lcamtuf’s thing

Properties | Pydon't 🐍 | Mathspp

Evaluating Managers: 5 heuristics to measure managerial impact – CodeKraft

What is Technical Debt? — Laura Tacho

Appreciating Your Way to XP - by Kent Beck

Is sequential IO dead in the era of the NVMe drive? — Jack Vanlightly

Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report

Key practice: Test Driven Development | by Jason Yip | May, 2023 | Medium

GitHub - ellie/atuin: 🐢 Magical shell history

Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? | The New Yorker

Culture & Methods Trends Report March 2023

Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations

cohost! - "I want to talk about WebGPU"

Goodbye to Flake8 and PyLint: faster linting with Ruff

Architecture decision record (ADR) examples

The web's most important decision - The History of the Web

Understanding SAL | Microsoft Learn

Key practice: Aligned, autonomous cross-disciplinary teams. | by Jason Yip | Apr, 2023 | Medium

NitroKey disappoints me

Best practices for writing code comments - Stack Overflow Blog

Red Alert: ICANN and Verisign Proposal Would Allow Any Government In The World To Seize Domain Names – FreeSpeech.com

[2304.09655] How Secure is Code Generated by ChatGPT?

Researchers Taught Parrots to Video Call Other Parrots

What complex systems can teach us about building software

The weird world of Windows file paths | Fileside

GitHub Copilot Emits GPL. Codeium Does Not. | Codeium

Announcing Babylon.js 6.0. Our mission is to build one of the most… | by Babylon.js | Apr, 2023 | Medium

Defining interfaces in C++: concepts versus inheritance – Daniel Lemire's blog

Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data | WIRED

Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand — the simple way | Daniel P. Gross

nvtop: GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA

Extracting the Essential Simplicity of the Internet | February 2023 | Communications of the ACM

SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ And Replaced It With A Postgres Queue

The time to figure out how to use generative AI and large language models in your code is now

Two types of software engineers - by Thorsten Ball

How does database sharding work?

Numbers To Know For Managing (Software Teams) | Stay SaaSy

Writing a Fast C# Code-Search Tool in Rust — John Austin

Polars for initial data analysis, Polars for production

Pipes-and-Filters - ModernesCpp.com

Chrome ships WebGPU - Chrome Developers

If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Statesman

An On-Ramp to Flow

Datapane - Build data products in 100% Python

Safari releases are development hell - Ashley's blog

Is your Postgres ready for production?

Slint 1.0: The Next-Generation Native GUI Toolkit Matures — Slint Blog

C++17 creates a practical use of the backward array index operator - The Old New Thing

Own Your Work | Jose M.

Making Python 100x faster with less than 100 lines of Rust

Cerebras-GPT: A Family of Open, Compute-efficient, Large Language Models - Cerebras

The Definition of Senior: A Look at the expectations for Software Engineers

What is the origin of model-view-controller? - Quora

Why Engineers Need To Write - by Ryan Peterman

Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow - The Verge

Refactoring and Design Patterns

Why Construction Projects Always Go Over Budget — Practical Engineering

Envio is a command-line tool that simplifies the management of environment variables

Introducing Ares - The Fastest Way to Decode Anything

TinyVG

Modern Font Stacks

Hallucinations Could Blunt ChatGPT’s Success - IEEE Spectrum

The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models | Quanta Magazine

GPT-4’s successes, and GPT-4’s failures - by Gary Marcus

No heroes needed

Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams

GitHub - huytd/comby-search: A code search tool based on Comby

Choose boring tools – Eduards Sizovs

Jade Rubick - Advice for new directors

Debugging Architects - The Architect Elevator

Git Worktree: Enhance your Git Workflow

Who reads your email?

Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely | TechTarget

What a good debugger can do

A discussion between Casey Muratori and Robert C. Martin about Clean Code

The Lost Art of Lacing Cable - The Broadcast Bridge - Connecting IT to Broadcast

Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content meant for other roles

You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

Why You Should Send a Weekly Summary Email | by Jens-Fabian Goetzmann | Feb, 2023 | Medium

An Alternative to Dependency Injection Frameworks – Software the Hard way

The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era | The Spicy Web

OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit

Godot 4.0 sets sail: All aboard for new horizons

Stop saying “technical debt” - Stack Overflow Blog

Keep your AI claims in check | Federal Trade Commission

6 qualities that make a great engineer | Inside Intercom

Clever Code Considered Harmful

Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone | Nokia | The Guardian

Let It Fail

Battle Of The Backends: Rust vs. Go vs. C# vs. Kotlin - inovex GmbH

I love building a startup in Rust. I wouldn't pick it again. | PropelAuth Blog

AI Image Generators Keep Messing Up Hands. Here's Why.

We need to talk about your Github addiction

Postgres Full Text Search vs the rest

AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency - IEEE Spectrum

The age of cargo cult Agile must end. | by Jason Yip

Large language models will change programming… a little | by Amy J. Ko

Scaling Extreme Programming: Dependencies - by Kent Beck

Self hosting in 2023 - Grifel

Can We Trust Search Engines with Generative AI? A Closer Look at Bing’s Accuracy for News Queries | by Nick Diakopoulos | Feb, 2023 | Medium

Project Valhalla: A look inside Java’s epic refactor | InfoWorld

AMD Grabs Over 30% CPU Market Share As Intel Continues To Decline

Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT—Stephen Wolfram Writings

Handbook - KDE Eco

Reduce the environmental footprint of your mobile apps with SonarQube

A "Notion-style" block-based extensible text editor built on top of Prosemirror and Tiptap

How C++23 changes the way we write code - Timur Doumler - Meeting C++ 2022 - YouTube

Simple Physics-based Flight Simulation with C++ | Jakob Maier

ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare. If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned

The Heisenbug lurking in your async code - Textual

Why I'm not the biggest fan of Single Page Applications

Fixing “Too much WIP” | by Jason Yip | Jan, 2023 | Medium

dns0.eu — The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer

ChatGPT Should Not Exist. Its Real Product Is Despair. | by David Golumbia

Stable Attribution

GitHub - hubblo-org/scaphandre: ⚡ Energy consumption metrology agent. Let "scaph" dive and bring back the metrics that will help you make your systems and applications more sustainable !

Data for Decisions - Max Countryman

I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer

Undefined behavior, and the Sledgehammer Principle | The Pasture

The AI Crowd is Mad

My critique of “the Spotify Model”: Part 1 | by Jason Yip | Jan, 2023 | Medium

Testcontainers

Summer Afternoon

Everything You Need to Know About std::variant from C++17 - C++ Stories

U.S. No Fly List Left on Unprotected Airline Server

OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour: Exclusive | Time

AI's Jurassic Park moment - by Gary Marcus

We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened

Use.GPU Goes Trad — Acko.net

From Story Points to Slam Dunks — Planning for Success

The CARL framework of reflection | The University of Edinburgh

The Elusive Frame Timing | by Alen Ladavac | Medium

Makefiles for Web Work – Ross Zurowski

Epochalypse

Study Finds That Buttons in Cars Are Safer and Quicker to Use Than Touchscreens

Shopify: Say no to meetings | UNLEASH

Sign-up Versus Assignment - by Kent Beck - Geek Incentives

Test Desiderata

Fast Path to a Great UX – Increased Exposure Hours — UX Articles by UIE

The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith

Bring back personal blogging - The Verge

Golang is evil on shitty networks

AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off

Escaping the Algorithms | Commonweal Magazine

The Cargo Cult of Good Code

Photographer Fools the Internet With AI-Generated Cameras That Don't Exist | PetaPixel

An Ode to Unit Tests: In Defense of the Testing Pyramid

Taming Names in Software Development - Simple Thread

Charge - Blender Open Movie - Blender Video

The problem with overestimating AI — pnw.ai

How to rebuild social media on top of RSS

Faster hardware is a bad first solution to slow software

mold: A Modern Linker 🦠

Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness

What I learned from pairing by default

GitHub - datafold/data-diff: Efficiently diff data in or across relational databases

ChatGPT and the viability of replacing humans with circus tricks

I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language - by Dylan Black

The architecture of Mastodon

Blockbench

Twitter Thrills Far-Right Trolls by Silencing Left-Wing Voices

WebAssembly: Go vs Rust vs AssemblyScript :: Ecostack — a developer blog

Massively increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive documentation and automated tests

Cache invalidation really is one of the hardest problems in computer science – Surfing Complexity

Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale | by Matt Welsh | Nov, 2022 | Medium

Why writing by hand is still the best way to retain information - Stack Overflow Blog

Ignore RuboCop changes in Git Blame

ooh.directory

An Interactive Guide to Flexbox in CSS

Digital environmental impact evaluation accross organizations

D2 Tour | D2 Documentation

Inhumanity of Root Cause Analysis – Verica

The Fediverse Could Be Awesome (if we don’t screw it up)

Why do we call it "boilerplate code?" • Buttondown

How fast is ASP.NET Core?

"When We All Have Pocket Telephones": A 1920s Comic Accurately Predicts Our Cellphone-Dominated Lives | Open Culture

Home invasion - Mastodon's Eternal September begins

The hidden cost of complexity

Immutable Collections should be Your Default

hishtory: Your shell history: synced, queryable, and in context

FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition

Stop requiring only one assertion per unit test: Multiple assertions are fine - Stack Overflow Blog

What is a developer experience team?

Good old-fashioned code optimization never goes out of style

The type system is a programmer's best friend

How to communicate effectively as a developer

Early speed optimizations aren’t premature

Information for decision-makers considering the SAFe framework - Google Docs

Stranger Strings: An exploitable flaw in SQLite | Trail of Bits Blog

What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames? - Leiden Medievalists Blog

Programming Portals

Blending Modes | Dan Hollick 🇿🇦

A Flexible Framework for Effective Pair Programming — Culture (2022)

RAII: Compile-Time Memory Management in C++ and Rust :: The Coded Message

Why we're leaving the cloud

GitHub Copilot investigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick

How Trying New Programming Languages Helped Me Grow as a Software Engineer

Feather – Simply beautiful open source icons

Stable Diffusion is a really big deal

Seven Sins of Numerical Linear Algebra – Nick Higham

Mike Acton’s Expectations of Professional Software Engineers - Adam Johnson

How a deepfake Mark Ruffalo scammed half a million dollars from a lonely heart • Graham Cluley

Moving files in ZSH - The wonderful world of zmv · filipe.kiss.ink

cppq: Simple, reliable & efficient distributed task queue for C++17. Backed by Redis.

A curated collection of diagramming tools used by software engineering teams

First make the change easy, then make the easy change

A multi-language bindings generator for rust

CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.

The 4 minute bug | Alejandro AR (kinduff)

Making python fast for free - adventures with mypyc – MeadSteve's Dev Blog

Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six

Guiding principle: Think Big, Work Small | by Jason Yip | Sep, 2022 | Medium

Be critical or be corrupted

Why Rust is actually good for your car. | by Johannes Foufas | Volvo Cars Engineering | Sep, 2022 | Medium

Press release: Use of Google Analytics for web analytics

Entitlement in Open Source | Mike McQuaid

Wasmtime Reaches 1.0: Fast, Safe and Production Ready!

World of Open Source: Europe Spotlight 2022

A personal experimental C++ Syntax 2 -> Syntax 1 compiler

Rendergraphs and how to implement one

5 Figma Alternatives for UI & UX Designers - Stack Diary

Privacy vs “I have nothing to hide” - Kev Quirk

QR codes | Dan Hollick 🇿🇦

Bikes, Not Self Driving Cars, Are The Technological Gateway To Urban Progress

9 Practices that Haunt Developers Working with Scrum | by Willem-Jan Ageling | Serious Scrum | Sep, 2022 | Medium

The self-fulfilling prophecy of React - Josh Collinsworth blog

You Can Build Portable Binaries of Python Applications

CO2.js: An Open Library for Digital Carbon Reporting

What Distinguishes Great Software Engineers? - by Abi Noda

Rockstar Developers Are THE WORST Developers - YouTube

Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture

Exploring 12 Million of the 2.3 Billion Images Used to Train Stable Diffusion's Image Generator - Waxy.org

OCaml at First Glance

The False Trade-off between Quality and Speed

Devbox: Instant, easy, predictable shells and containers.

The New Normal: The Coming Tsunami of Fakery

Rust: A hard decision pays off | Pinecone

Preparing for the wave of open source funding

Stable Diffusion Public Release — Stability.Ai

A new jailbreak for John Deere tractors rides the right-to-repair wave

Coping with Copilot | SIGARCH

Developers, please nurture your coding experience

Code Smells Catalog

A Python-compatible statically typed language

KPIs, Velocity, and Other Destructive Metrics

Redis Explained

Don’t call it a comeback: Why Java is still champ · GitHub

Working with Multiple Databases in Spring

'The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it,' says JSON creator Douglas Crockford • DEVCLASS

pdf-diff: A tool for visualizing differences between two pdf files.

The Slotted Counter Pattern

How Tor is fighting—and beating—Russian censorship | Ars Technica

How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code | Freaking Rectangle

Gum: A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀

Diagram as Code - by Alex Xu - ByteByteGo Newsletter

CosmicStrand: the discovery of a sophisticated UEFI firmware rootkit | Securelist

finally. #embed

Typing your way into safety

Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

Is your smartphone ruining your memory? A special report on the rise of ‘digital amnesia’

A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia

Planning for Project Deadlines So You Can Sleep at Night - Build the Stage

DNS Esoterica - Why you can't dig Switzerland

Giving a Shit as a Service

Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals | Uber | The Guardian

Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders - Robb Owen

Generate RSS feeds from websites

An experiment to test GitHub Copilot's legality

Write Better Commits, Build Better Projects | The GitHub Blog

Things You Should Know About Databases

What's new in Python 3.11? - DeepSource

Introduction to OpenRewrite - OpenRewrite

GitLab CEO: 'Remote work is just work' | Fortune

Prioritization is a Political Problem as Much as an Analytical Problem

What would a Chromium-only Web look like?

“Sharing Interesting Stuff”: A simple yet powerful management tool | by Florian Fesseler | Shipup blog | Jun, 2022 | Medium

DORA Metrics: the Right Answer to measuring engineering team performance - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

⚡️ The computers are fast, but you don't know it

Don't be that open-source user, don't be me

Symbiote, a nearly-impossible-to-detect Linux malwareSecurity Affairs

The collapse of complex software | Read the Tea Leaves

#NoEstimates (Allen Holub) - YouTube

A New Definition of HTTP

Fallacies of Distributed Systems

How fast are Linux pipes anyway?

Expert Talk: Managing Complexity in Software • Hadi Hariri & Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2022 - YouTube

What the f*ck Python? 😱

Mob programming deep dive with Woody Zuill (The Changelog #488) |> Changelog

Programming in the Apocalypse

Asynchronous Communication is the Great Leveler in Engineering — Culture (2022)

The balance has shifted away from SPAs | Read the Tea Leaves

CrateDepression | Rust Supply-Chain Attack Infects Cloud CI Pipelines with Go Malware

Wireless is a trap | benkuhn.net

Complexity is the mind killer

I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite · Fly

Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang

Blockchain is Dangerous Nonsense | Eisfunke

GNOME patent troll stripped of patent rights

Why Your CSS is Always Messy and Chaotic – Understanding CSS Complexity

Magic-trace collects and displays high-resolution traces of what a process is doing

How to Freaking Hire Great Developers

The smallest Docker image to serve static websites

Improving Python S3 Client Performance with Rust | by Joshua Robinson | Mar, 2022 | Medium

The Squeaky Blog | Why we don’t use a staging environment

Lightboard is a glass chalkboard pumped full of light

Life off social media, six months in - Silvia Maggi

The principles and habits of healthy software

NeRF Research Turns 2D Photos Into 3D Scenes | NVIDIA Blog

6 Universal Readable Code Tricks To Improve Your Coding Skills • Python Land Blog

How to design better APIs

Things I hate about Rust, redux

Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall

Barcode Detection API - Web APIs | MDN

WebGPU — All of the cores, none of the canvas — surma.dev

Laurent Bossavit : “Les démarches agiles impliquent une forme de rébellion” | Tribunes | Acteurs Publics

Interop 2022: browsers working together to improve the web for developers

How to make MPAs that are as fast as SPAs | Go Make Things

5 things you don't need Javascript for

Solid.js feels like what I always wanted React to be | TypeOfNaN

GitHub - hoppscotch/hoppscotch: 👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

Building for the 99% Developers

The European Parliament paves the way for removable and replaceable batteries - Right to Repair Europe

Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel

Thank you, Valve

On finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow

Settings are not a design failure

Kate Editor Set to Become KDE's Answer to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - It's FOSS News

How Prime Video updates its app for more than 8,000 device types - Amazon Science

Block Protocol - an open standard for data-driven blocks

Improving end to end tests reliability / frantic.im

Five Easy to Miss PostgreSQL Query Performance Bottlenecks

Don't Wrap Instance Methods with 'functools.lru_cache' Decorator in Python · Redowan's Reflections

API development with type-safety across the entire stack

GitHub - khuedoan/homelab: My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated from empty disk to operating services.

Pass-by-value, reference, and assignment | Pydon't 🐍 | Mathspp

Stop paying tech debts, start maintaining code

How vectorization speeds up your Python code

The Intel Split – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet

Python bytecode explained

The 7 Code Review Manners. Not the code review we need but the code review we deserve | by Reut Sharabani | Jan, 2022 | Medium | Medium

Who wrote this shit? | Philip Heltweg

Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network | The Changelog

Chatbots: Still Dumb After All These Years | Mind Matters

A.I. Is Solving the Wrong Problem | by Marianne Bellotti | OneZero

A Whole Website in a Single HTML File

Planning for Momentum - Increment

Google’s Manifest V3 Still Hurts Privacy, Security, and Innovation

The metaverse has a groping problem already

Introducing fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps

HTTP/3 is Fast | HTTP/3 is here, and it’s a big deal for web performance. See just how much faster it makes websites! | Request Metrics

Pico.css • Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML

The internet is tricking our brains

The Matrix is Unreal – fxguide

Background Work

Rust takes a major step forward as Linux's second official language | ZDNet

Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing - The Correspondent

Simple Raspberry Pi powered SMS Gateway

Why mastering Python is impossible, and why that's ok | Pydon't 🐍

Firefox is the Only Alternative - (think)

'Small Data' Are Also Crucial for Machine Learning - Scientific American

It takes a lot of energy for machines to learn – here's why AI is so power-hungry

The unbearable fussiness of the smart home - Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis

Overengineering can kill your product - Mind the Product

Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional

Git email flow vs Github flow

String formatting comparison | Pydon't 🐍

Writing great software isn’t all about the software you write – Letters To A New Developer

Complexity is killing software developers | InfoWorld

CookLang: recipe markup language

Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25 - Internet Archive Blogs

Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community

Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3 — sethmlarson.dev

Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of speed | InfoWorld

Hexagonal Architecture in Java Simplified

How to win at CORS - JakeArchibald.com

On KDE's 25th Anniversary

3 TypeScript Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript

WSLg Architecture

20 Things I've Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer

How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha

Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.

New study reveals iPhones aren't as private as you think | Tom's Guide

The code worked differently when the moon was full

The difference between Go and Rust – dominikbraun.io

How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum - by Gergely Orosz - The Pragmatic Engineer

Doing Software Estimation within constraints of Hofstadter’s law and Parkinson’s law – Shekhar Gulati

Moiré no more | Revue

A New Battery-Free System Gives Devices an 'Infinite Lifetime'

Motion One: The Web Animations API for everyone

No Longer Just Theory: Black Lotus Labs Uncovers Linux Executables Deployed as Stealth Windows Loaders - Lumen

Agile is Dead, McKinsey Just Killed It - Terem Technologies

Profiling and improving the runtime of a large pytest test suite | Niklas Meinzer

Modifying The Linux Kernel – New Syscalls – Coding Kaiser

A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 17 - Advanced Web Machinery

Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

The Time Travel Debugger for Web Development

10 Cool SQL Optimisations That do not Depend on the Cost Model – Java, SQL and jOOQ.

Run GUI applications and desktops in docker. Focus on security.

Like jq, but for HTML.

Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates

A curated list of awesome actions to use on GitHub

Why type systems matter

Boost your productivity with the REPL | Pydon't

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster - Adam Drake

Adactio: Journal—Foundations

Working Around a Case Where the Postgres Planner Is "Not Very Smart" - Heap

CSS Transforms tutorial

When Do We Actually Need to Meet in Person?

The performance effects of too much lazy-loading

Python developers are being targeted with malicious packages on PyPI

The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones - by Matt Ruby - The Rubesletter by Matt Ruby (of Vooza) | Sent every Tuesday

Empty npm package '-' has over 700,000 downloads — here's why

New in Git: switch and restore

Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t

Cory Doctorow: Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results

38% of remote workers work from bed

From Stolen Laptop to Inside the Company Network — Dolos Group

Introducing Triton: Open-Source GPU Programming for Neural Networks

Postgres Full-Text Search: A Search Engine in a Database

Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion - Simple Thread

How to model application flows in React with finite state machines and XState

Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems.

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot · GitHub

The Tyranny of Spreadsheets | Tim Harford

Framework | Framework Laptop pre-orders are now open

Smart Pointers in Rust: What, why and how?

The epistemology of software quality – Increment: Teams

Detached window memory leaks

83% of Developers Suffer From Burnout, Haystack Analytics Study Finds

Annotell: Code Custodian - how to clean your code

Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies | VentureBeat

Does elegance matter? | Pydon't | Mathspp

Why do conspiracy theories flourish? Because the truth is too hard to handle | Edward Snowden | The Guardian

Fair✦TEC

Smocker

gProfiler is a system-wide profiler, combining multiple sampling profilers

Why Computing Students Should Contribute to Open Source Software Projects | July 2021 | Communications of the ACM

Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity

When To Rewrite

FarmBot | Open-Source CNC Farming

Benchmarking JavaScript Memory Usage - WebPageTest Blog

How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10? – NTDEV

Identify anything

A collection of modern alternatives to common unix commands

Book summary: A Philosophy of Software Design

Disasters I've seen in a microservices world

So you messed up. Now what? - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Abstract Syntax Tree for Patching Code and Assessing Code Quality | Soroco Engineering

Conditional HTTP GET: The fastest requests need no response body | Ilija Eftimov ⚡️

The art of the SWAG - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

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