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The Silent Critic

Package managers that package package managers

Fast is better than slow

Agent Trace RFC

Using AI to write better code more slowly

score by collisions, patch by panic

Hello All I am the author of this post. A couple of weeks ago, my previous piece ('The 90 day disclosure policy is dead') ended up here ( https://lobs…

Stop Using Pull Requests

Dependency cooldowns are unfair; we should use phased rollouts instead

Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding

I am not a Software Engineer

Holistic Configuration Management at Facebook

Programming as Theory Building (1985)

The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon

Git blame for code comprehension

Bun's problem may be developing in the open

Don't answer the first question

Reviewing so called Pull Requests at $dayjob

Ascetic Computing

The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born

Lua as a practical "soft-bedrock" language

Unison In Anger

Fighting Hyrum's Law in LLVM

Piping terminal output to the browser using systemfd

Flipping the bozo bit on flips the learning off

What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap

Programming Is Real Engineering, And AI Proves It

What I’m Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)

Protect Your Shed

Why I Don’t Vibe Code