The Value of Things
One of the reasons I write is to help me organize my own mind. I have a compulsive need to figure things out and I’ll lay awake at night shuffling sentences around in my head until it hangs together.
Drew DeVault draws a provocative parallel between Test-Driven Development cults and GenAI adoption, arguing both exploit developers' psychological need to feel competent while potentially undermining actual code quality.
One of the reasons I write is to help me organize my own mind. I have a compulsive need to figure things out and I’ll lay awake at night shuffling sentences around in my head until it hangs together.
Considering Strictly Monotonic Time Jan 23, 2026 Monotonic time is a frequently used, load bearing abstraction. Monotonicity is often enforced using the following code: fn now(clock: *Clock) Instant
My colleagues here at Thoughtworks have announced AI/works™, a platform for our work using AI-enabled software development. The platform is in its early days, and is currently intended to support Thou
LLMs help developers explore the "what/how" loop of software abstraction more fluidly, complementing TDD in managing cognitive load and building adaptable systems.
Rust's async combinators enable elegant, functional concurrent programming while maintaining safety and declarative code style.
mGBA requires a GBA BIOS file to connect to Dolphin emulator via link cable emulation, which isn't documented clearly.
Pass@k is Mostly Bunk Exponentially better results? I'll take three! Measuring the success of AI agents isn’t easy. It’s very sensitive to what success means, it can require a lot of samples, its hi
Unable to summarize - no content provided in the blog post about AI coding agents' electricity usage.
There’ve been a few bugfixes and optimizations since 1.5, but the headline is: now knows regular expressions. This is roughly the fourth anniversary of the first check-in and the third o
Unable to summarize - no content provided. Article likely discusses challenges of administering university exams when students have access to AI chatbots.
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A PowerShell function that recreates Linux's "touch" command, making it easier to work across different terminals without context switching.
Developer used Claude AI to help automate deploying TigerBeetle's distributed database across cloud machines for performance testing.
urllib3 has a new lead maintainer in 2025, Illia Volochii, who now blogs about the project. Follow his blog for urllib3 updates.