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antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo)

A few words on DS4

I didn’t expect DwarfStar 4 to become so popular so fast. It is clear that there was a need for single-model integration focused local AI experience, and that a few things happened together: the relea

Martin Fowler

Fragments: May 14

Last week I spent a day at a retreat that brought together several people working in software development to talk about the profession’s future with the rise of agentic programming. The event was help

Martin Fowler

Bliki: Interrogatory LLM

When we need an LLM to perform a complex task, we often need to feed it a lot of context. Coming up with a design for a new feature requires descriptions of how we want the feature to appear to th

Alex Kladov (matklad)

Catch Flakes On Main

Catch Flakes On Main May 14, 2026 A small Mechanical Habit today: When using not rocket science rule / merge queue, continue to redundantly run the full test suite on main. Maintain an easily accessi