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The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes
From the Zed Blog: Working toward genuine, quality software in an era where code production is not the constraint anymore.
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Wrong ways to use the databases, when the pendulum swung too far
Disclaimer: This story took place when I was a junior developer for a previous employer ages ago. Some details might be fuzzy, and goes without saying this is entirely from my own POV so take everything here with humor and a grain of salt.
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Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT
For sure easier than solving it in SAT!
1024
Agentic Coding Recommendations
Current recommendations of agentic coding.
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Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git
Part 7 of my software journey, getting to know developer experience.
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GitHub CI/CD observability with OpenTelemetry step by step guide
Instrument your CI/CD pipelines with OpenTelemetry. A step-by-step guide to capturing GitHub Actions data via the Collector.
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Left-Pad (2024)
8 years have passed since the the left-pad incident happened. It's been good for me to avoid this subject for focusing on actual work. Also, silence is gold. On the other hand, left-pad is seen as a notable event mentioned in books, so I'll share more info and thoughts about what exactly happened.
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Fine-tuning LLMs is a waste of time
People think they can use Fine-Tune for Knowledge Injection. People are Wrong
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Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline
Originally published May 20, 2015.
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Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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The curious case of shell commands, or how "this bug is required by POSIX" (2021)
About the fatal perils and traps of many modern tools that handle "shell commands" as passed through `system(3)` or `sh -c`. Or, how by the end of 2020, we still haven't given up on shell's equivalent "SQL building", or how shell's equivalent "SQL injection" still thrives in our engineering world... Plus a `glibc`…
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Rust compiler performance
Perhaps the most often repeated complaint about Rust is its slow feedback loop and long compilation times. I hear about it all the time; in Rust podcasts, blog posts, surveys, conference talks or offline discussions. I also regularly complain about it, being a Rust user myself!
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Why agents are bad pair programmers
LLM agents make bad pairs because they code faster than humans think. I'll admit, I've had a lot of fun using GitHub Copilot's agent mode in VS Code this month.…
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Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc
Apple announced new technologies and enhancements to its developer tools to help developers create more beautiful, intelligent, and engaging apps.
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How I program with agents
This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to adapt my programming experience to a world with computers that talk. The first part, How I program with LLMs , covered ways LLMs can be adapted into our existing tools (basically, autocomplete) and how careful prompting can replace traditional web search…
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Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode
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Binfmtc – binfmt_misc C scripting interface
"I love C". "I enjoy writing in C". "I don't feel well when I have passed a day without coding a line of C". "My conversation with my wife simply doesn't flow without the C language". "I want to write everything in C, even the everyday scripting, but due to the steps required for writing make files and other things, I…
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Demystifying Debuggers
An introduction to a new post series covering debugger basics.
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Reverse engineering Claude Code
I’ve been curious about what happens inside Claude Code so I’ve spent a couple hours digging through prompts that it sends back to Anthropic.
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You need much less memory than time
Just as I was complaining that we haven't seen many surprising breakthroughs in complexity recently, we get an earthquake of a result to st...
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Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging It in 30 Minutes with Fray
Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging it in 30 Minutes with Fray I’ve been adding more integration tests for Fray recently. To ensure Fray can handle different scenarios, I wrote many creative test cases. Many of them passed as expected, while some failures led to epic fixes in Fray. Then something…
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Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude
Note: This post comes with a NotebookLM podcast (1linked at the bottom), and three generated audio recordings. You can read the conversation I had
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Why We're Moving on from Nix
Meet Railpack — the next iteration of the Railway builder, developed from the ground up on lessons from building over 14 million apps with Nixpacks.
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Low-Level Optimization with Zig
The power of Zig's comptime code execution
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Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation
There are a lot of assumptions one could make when designing data types and schemas for aviation data that turn out to be inaccurate. In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie’s classic piece on names, here are some false assumptions one might make about aviation.
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Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp
To assist with job interviews at the NRAO we recently wrote a small “contest” program. Without giving away the details, the crux of the problem is
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Highly efficient matrix transpose in Mojo
In this blogpost I will step by step show you how to implement a highly efficient transpose kernel for the Hopper architecture using Mojo. The best kernel a...
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Too Many Open Files
Recently I’ve been working on a pretty big rust project and to my surprise Icouldn’t get tests to work properly.
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An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting
Learn about rate limiting algorithms with interactive apps, including Token Bucket, Leaky Bucket, Fixed Window, and Sliding Window methods