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Should QA exist?
There are a lot of challenges in the way QA and engineering work together. Many eng leaders think you shouldn't have QA. I dig in.
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The Doom Justifies the Valuation
I’ve been in Berkeley for the last 2 weeks. I haven’t really been back here for a while, and it’s worse than you can believe. This is a cult of atheistic hedonists needing AI doom to be true to justify their life choices. Or acceleration. Or something. They need to make impact. I mean, narcissism of small differences…
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Good people refuse to do bad things
On the responsibility of engineers
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I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months
A business report from a 3D printing enthusiast
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Image of our satellite-choked night skies
To create this composite image, photographer Brendan Larsen captured almost 600 photographs over a two-hour period and then manually stitched them together. Thi
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Code is run more than read (2023)
Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.
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Five memorable books about programming (2008)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
Through five intense months of meetings, research, and outreach across the MIT community, the Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training sought to understand the role of generative AI in the life and educational mission of the Institute and recommend how to navigate its challenges and…
4539
Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: Can AI trace your failed login?
A lot of vendors pitch AI SRE. We tested 14 models across 11 programming languages; even the best ones struggle with instrumenting code with the leading open-source standard, OpenTelemetry.
4540
Saving Jet Fuel
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Why building a Rust LSP is hard
Rust LSP that doesn't eat memory for breakfast
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Chain of Thought for Humans
These past few weeks, I’ve been conducting interviews, and I often open with “make sure you articulate your thoughts out loud, so I can follow along with your thinking”. This is primarily because I…
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LLMs predict my coffee
Why not benchmark with physical experiments?
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Why Mathematica does not simplify sinh(arccosh(x))
When Mathematica seems to not to know how to simplify an expression, it may be doing the right thing, being more sophisticated than you expect.
4545
Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer
Tauformer is a topological transformer (see paper ) that replaces dot‑product attention with a Laplacian-derived scalar (taumode) per token/head, then attends using distances in that scalar space. Below is a post-style overview of the idea and the first training signals from a 30M-parameter run.
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21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)
Eight long held and common beliefs about the network have been shown, time after time, to be false. What are they, and what do they mean?
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Competition is not market validation
How to not fall into the fallacy of seeing competition as a proof of Product-Market Fit
4549
Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops
Formal verification gates for AI coding loops, in the language you're already shipping.
4550
Introducing: ShaderPad
Riley J. Shaw is a programmer and designer. Rooted in repair and craft, he creates transparent, remixable tools for a sustainable and accessible future.
4551
How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?
The U.S. munitions industrial base should be rebuilt and recast for modern wars of precision and attrition. What is a realistic timeline for this goal? By analyzing DOD budget documents and industry announcements, this analysis provides a clearer picture of the planned future.
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Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change
1 in 4 American workers stay in their jobs because of the healthcare. It suppresses wages and working conditions - and prevents innovators from heading out on their own.
4553
I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored
I made 20 GDPR data deletion requests in the past year. 2 complied immediately. 6 complied after I filed complaints with data protection offices. 12 still haven't. The regulation exists, the enforcement doesn't.
4554
The Agent SDK
The Agent SDK is the framework we use to build our own managed agents like Bugbot, Security Reviewer, and Rollouts. Define agents in code and deploy them with one command.
4555
They lied to you. Building software is hard
Every week there seems to be a new tool that promises to let anyone build applications 10x faster. The promise is always the same and so is the outcome.
4556
British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
This year, British Column has moved to year-round Pacific Time. How does that affect date data?
4557
The future of independence is interdependence
Every one of us depends on others; the only difference is how visible that dependence is.
4558
OpenAI Frontier
OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with shared context, onboarding, permissions, and governance.
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I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does
The origin and the evolution of the most confusing modifier key
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Just Put It on a Map
An underrated strategy for urbanist persuasion, powered by open source tools