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AI Meets WinDBG
Because manually squinting at hex dumps is so last century. Let me show you how AI-assisted debugging is leaving WinDBG's command line in the dust.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,747 posts.
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I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search
I sent my CV for a role at Kagi Search, the description of the role can be found here:
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Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode
This page contains entries for the year 2025 . Other years are available in the Devlog archive page .
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Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling
How I built MacThrottle, a menu bar app that tells me when my Mac is thermal throttling, and the journey to find the right macOS APIs.
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Unison 1.0
After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.
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Jank is C++
jank is Clojure. jank is C++. The combination is amazing.
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Diff Algorithms
How I overcame copying and modifying my own diff library from project to project by diving too deep into diff algorithms and coming out at the other end with new diff library in my hand.
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Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows
A blog post by Ryan Geyer
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How to use Claude Code subagents to parallelize development
Updated 2026-07-10 for the agent-teams era. Originally published September 2025. A subagent in Claude Code is a separate agent your session spawns to do a...
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Developer Philosophy
Amazing as it may seem after all these years, there are still junior developers in the world. A few weeks ago at work we had a talk where senior developers (including me) were invited to spend around five minutes each talking about our personal software development philosophies....
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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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Distributed systems programming has stalled
Over the last decade, we’ve seen great advancements in distributed systems, but the way we program them has seen few fundamental improvements. While we can sometimes abstract away distribution (Spark, Redis, etc.), developers still struggle with challenges like concurrency, fault tolerance, and versioning. There are…
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Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used
A developer's lament about Xcode's opaque errors, unreadable project files, and Apple's culture of pretending everything is fine.
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DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list
Why does Space Station 14 crash with ANGLE on ARM64? 6 hours later…
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Compiling Ruby to machine language
I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished.
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Why I Program in Lisp
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
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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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Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API
Previously I have covered a relatively obscure now-removed placeholder string in Android that doubles as an easter egg, the fictitious carrier by the name of El Telco Loco. But this time it is about methods and other parts of the publicly facing Android API that may generally be more humourous than they are useful…
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Emacs as your video-trimming tool
Marcin ‘mbork’ Borkowski has a nice post showing us how he trims video clips from our beloved editor. Trimming clips is something I do from time to ti...
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Running Qwen3 on your macbook, using MLX, to vibe code for free
Localforge blog post
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Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
Drawing separator lines between various sections of a webpage is a common design technique, which can help to structure the content and make it more readable, as well as more aesthetically pleasing. As we'll see in this article, there are techniques
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How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
Teams across Anthropic use Claude Code for everything from debugging production issues and navigating unfamiliar codebases to building custom automation tools. Here's how.
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Code like a surgeon
A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view!
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A masochist's guide to web development
I have recently worked on making a web application out of my latest Rubik’s cube optimal solver . This involved building a rather complex C code base (with multithreading, SIMD, callback functions and whatnot) to WebAssembly via Emscripten , and writing a minimal amount of JavaScript and HTML for the frontend.
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We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs
How quarterly fixit weeks help teams tackle small annoyances that never bubble up to the priority list.
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io_uring is faster than mmap
Sourcing data directly from disk IS faster than caching in memory. I brought receipts. Because hardware got wider but not faster, the old methods don't get you there. You need new tools to use what is scaling and avoid what isn't.
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You should know this before choosing Next.js
Picking the technology stack for a project is an important and consequential decision. In the enterprise space in particular, it often involves a multi-year commitment with long-lasting implication...
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Designing agentic loops
Coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI represent a genuine step change in how useful LLMs can be for producing working code. These agents can now directly …