Today
- One of the most optimized algorithms in any standard library is sorting. It is used everywhere so it must be fast. Thousands upon thousands of developer hours have been sunk into inventing new algorithms and making sort implementations faster. Pystd has a different design...
- David Poll points out the flawed premise of the argument that code review is a bottleneck To be fair, finding defects has always been listed as a goal of code review – Wikipedia will tell you as much. And sure, reviewers do catch bugs. But I think that framing dramatically...
- This post is the third in a series comparing the same sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy: - Eleventy version: Source code and Demo - Origami version: Source code and Demo This post looks at another advantage of code over configuration: the degree to...
- 19 Mar, 2026 I was recently asked on a podcast what my biggest game-changer was, whether it be a habit, way of thinking, purchase, or change of context. I didn't need to fish around for an answer, since I already know my biggest game-changer: becoming a day person. By this I...
Yesterday
- Mastra Studio has evolved. It's no longer just a local development tool. You can deploy it to your own infrastructure and share the URL with your team. However,......
- AI agents that write code, open pull requests, and fix bugs aren't replacing developers — they're extending the same patterns of transparency, code review, and collaboration that have made open source successful for decades....
- Music To Build Agents By I don't have this problem, because I don't use a mouse. Press play, then start reading: Want to learn how to think about agent policy? Start with Goethe’s Der Zauberlehrling. So come along, you old broomstick! Dress yourself in rotten rags! You’ve long...
- This post is the second in a series comparing the same sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy: - Eleventy version: Source code and Demo - Origami version: Source code and Demo Today let's look at how both projects define the overall structure of the site...
- A user searches for red shoes they click on some products Now you have a set of relevant products Great......
This week
- March 17, 2026 This post series is for people who want to build or rebuild a site. You may have heard of Eleventy, a popular static site generator, and maybe heard it’s simple to use. To evaluate that simplicity, I’ll compare a sample blog in Eleventy to the same blog in Web...
- OpenAI today: Introducing GPT‑5.4 mini and nano. These models join GPT-5.4 which was released two weeks ago. OpenAI’s self-reported benchmarks show the new 5.4-nano out-performing their previous GPT-5 mini model …
- Imagine I’m the design leader at your org and I present the following guidelines I want us to adopt as a team for doing design work: Typography: Use expressive, purposeful fonts and avoid default stacks (Inter, Roboto, Arial, system). Motion: Use a few meaningful animations...
- Conversations with AI are ephemeral, decisions made early lose attention as the conversation continues, and disappear entirely with a new session. Rahul Garg explains how Context Anchoring externalizes the decision context into a living document. more…...
- Learn how to use the Gemini Interactions API to build a personalized Japan travel brochure with Nano Banana 2....
- Look at this math and grasp at its majesty: P(R) = P(R | BM25) * P(R | Emb) # Prob(Relevance) = lexical * embedding OK what’s so special about that? That’s an AND. A probabilistic way of combining scores so that when BOTH “things happen”, the final result becomes true. Here when...
- Annie Vella did some research into how 158 professional software engineers used AI, her first question was: Are AI tools shifting where engineers actually spend their time and effort? Because if they are, they’re implicitly shifting what skills we practice and, ultimately, the...
- The shell sits in front of a lot of my work, but I mostly use it for the outcome: running unix commands and scripts, creating branches and making commits. Unlike when I'm writing code, I'm rarely thinking about how the shell itself works under the hood.So, to dig a bit deeper...
- Greg Knauss has my attention with a food analogy in his article “Lose Myself”: A Ding Dong from a factory is not the same thing as a gâteau au chocolat et crème chantilly from a baker which is not the same thing as cramming chunks of chocolate and scoops of whipped cream...
- I managed billing for 200+ price points and 14 engineers. Here's the 6-question framework I wish someone gave me to decide whether to extend or replace a billing stack at scale. The post Extend or replace – how to evaluate your billing stack at AI scale appeared first on Arnon...
- Semantic search alone wasn't good enough. Here's how I improved search on kentcdodds.com through three rounds of iteration with Cursor and GPT-5.4, each time learning something that the previous design missed....
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. March 15, 2026 Just leaving this here in case someone runs into the same difficulty I did … or maybe I’m leaving it here for an LLM to...
- Comprehension debt is the hidden cost to human intelligence and memory resulting from excessive reliance on AI and automation. For engineers, it applies most to agentic engineering.
- I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic parody and then slowly becoming sincere, and never published it, 1) because I don't know if I ever really nailed it / have a complete picture, 2) I was somewhat worried if I published...
- I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about agentic engineering hosted by Eric Lui from Statsig. …
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