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Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.

I recommend turning Dependabot off and replacing it with a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies.

Why speed matters and why it's more than just timing.

Enjoy it while it lasts! No, really!

There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

System package managers and language package managers are solving different problems that happen to overlap in the middle.

Production data, like real life, is messy. Your database — or at least the projection of the world as expressed by your database — will become riddled with e...

You’ve probably heard of “clean code” (and the “clean coder”, and “clean architecture”, and other things Bob Martin has added the word “clean” …

A couple of people have asked, in relation to my 2-day Software Design Principles training course, whether maintainability matters anymore. Perhaps they’ve read some of the wrong-headed posts…

In my post about The Gorman Paradox, I compare the lack of any evidence of “AI”-assisted productivity gains to be found out here in the Real WorldTM with the famous Fermi Paradox that a…

Last month I wrote about porting JustHTML from Python to JavaScript using Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in a few hours while also buying a Christmas tree and watching Knives Out …

Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting

High agency is the habit of seeing it, owning it, and moving it forward. In the long run initiative beats intellect. This essay explains what agency is, why ...

AI did not kill code review. It made the burden of proof explicit. Ship changes with evidence like manual verification and automated tests, then use review f...

A practical guide to sandboxing for AI agents and RL environments: containers vs gVisor vs microVMs vs Wasm/isolates, what each boundary actually buys you, and where they fail.

Claude API Documentation

How consumer protection in payments works, why it was designed that way, and why it’s being contested today.

The next edit suggestions feature is now enabled in all JetBrains IDEs for JetBrains AI Pro, AI Ultimate, and AI Enterprise subscribers. Yes, you read that right! JetBrains-native diff suggestions