Today
- It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. I’ve heard the term “Ozempic face” for awhile. People have opinions about that one, but I tend to feel like we should be comfortable with bodies changing. There’s also “Ozempic butt” and...
- I’ve watched a billion hours of YouTube and I’ve noticed a common trend: Whether that’s a drawing, a video game, a song, a cake, or a whole-ass off-grid house; I’ve learned that it’s fun to watch people make something. Since the beginning of humanity, the act of slapping two...
- AI Assisted/Agentic programming are pretty common place at this point. The growing sentiment seems to be that if you can't find some sort of benefit in your workflow, it's more of a skill issue than a problem with the tools. Whether you believe this to...
- Two years ago I published “Apple, please fix the Safari Reading List” which suggests some improvements and highlights one critical bug that Apple should fix to make Safari Reading List usable. Having a robust system to keep things for later is crucial for my workflow....
- I’ve been reading (slowly) David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years, and really enjoying it. I’ve previously read quite a few books about Apple’s history, but Pogue has put together something really special with this one. This morning I came across this sidebar about the...
- You may be seeing posts claiming METR’s widely-cited 2025 study has been followed up with new research showing an 18% productivity boost. That’s not what the article says. METR: We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design In 2025, METR found experienced...
Yesterday
- Creating a subset of Go that translates to C was never my end goal. I liked writing C code with Go, but without the standard library it felt pretty limited. So, the next logical step was to port Go's stdlib to C.Of course, this isn't something I could do all at once. I started...
- Feed diversity overhaul, domain and topic affinity, inline reactions, and exact keyword matching....
- Availability has dropped to one nine (~90% – !!), partly due to not being able to handle increased traffic from AI coding agents. There’s also no CEO and an apparent lack of direction....
- The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …
- Back in 1985, computer scientist Peter Naur wrote “Programming as Theory Building”. According to Naur - and I agree with him - the core output of software engineers is not the program itself, but the theory of how the program works. In other words, the knowledge inside the...
- I have no connection to the authors of the Superpowers plugin for Claude Code, but I have been raving about it to everyone I talk to. Using Claude Code with Superpowers is so much more productive and the features it builds are so much more correct than with stock Claude Code. I...
- I was a guest on Lenny Rachitsky’s podcast, in a new episode titled An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation …
This week
- Marcin Wichary brings attention to this lovely dialog in ClarisWorks from 1997: He quips: this breaks the rule of button copy being fully comprehensible without having to read the surrounding strings first, perhaps most well-known as the “avoid «click here»” rule. Never...
- Yesterday we talked about how cheap code is fueling an era of idiosyncratic tooling, and previously we’ve talked about the rise of spec driven development. In that second piece, we ran through some of the initial examples of spec driven development with agents: By far, the...
- As we see LLMs churn out scads of code, folks have increasingly turned to Cognitive Debt as a metaphor for capturing how a team can lose understanding of what a system does. Margaret-Anne Storey thinks a good way of thinking about these problems is to consider three layers of...
- Last month Birgitta Böckeler wrote some initial thoughts about the recently developed notion of Harness Engineering. She's been researching and thinking more about this in the weeks since and has now written a thoughtful mental model for understanding harness engineering that we...
- Dependencies are a huge supply chain security risk; the more of them you have, and the more often you update, the bigger the attack surface....
- This is the third chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon. Thank you! In the previous chapter you learned how to execute a variety of queries on the products...
- CircleCI’s 2026 State of Software Delivery report has two findings that are already travelling: AI is meaningfully boosting software delivery, but only 1 in 20 teams are capturing that benefit. Both claims are more uncertain than the report suggests, for different reasons. What...
- Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy an overpriced toy instead of a “real computer”? Here’s how I switched to the Mac, and haven’t looked back… despite some recent reservations. My family’s first real computer was a...
- AI coding assistants respond to whoever is prompting, and the quality of what they produce depends on how well the prompter articulates team standards. Rahul Garg proposes treating the instructions that govern AI interactions (generation, refactoring, security, review) as...
- So I got an email earlier, which you’ll find out about in my next post, which made me think “hey, the reply to this would make a great blog post”, and then I thought “…and it would be even better if people could add their own comments to it”, and so I plugged in the rather...
- One of the folks who joined my presenter workshop last week (which was awesome, by the way!) emailed me this morning with a follow-up question: I first saw you speak at DDD South-West in Bristol (it was the “There’s No Such Thing as Plain Text” talk), and what stuck with me was...
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