I've been saying this since 2024. I'm waiting for a major, catastrophic vulnerability to shake the world due to this.

My feelings exactly huronbikes.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-no...

I have had problems with my MacBook more or less non-stop since I got it. I've had so many people tell me that it was just a matter of habit. Seeing @jakearchibald.com , struggle with the same issues made me feel less dumb and lonely. Thank you.

This is what I expect to happen to most developers in a couple of years youtu.be/lgXkty83jPM?...

Most AI images fall in the uncanny valley for me. And there's more and more in the streets and public spaces by the day. This is a new kind of nightmare I didn't see coming.

A bit over two years after starting to work on it... Go is officially FIPS 140-3 certified 💥 csrc.nist.gov/projects/cry... I am pretty confident Go is now one of the most—if not the most—seamless and complete FIPS 140-3 compliance solutions... with a single env var, out of the box.

Journal: Summary punishment How to improve Google’s search results and the World Wide Web in one fell swoop. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22540

It's cringe to ask "what would Trump be doing differently if he were a Kremlin asset?" And yet we must.

@empijei.bsky.social’s favorite thing! pmbanugo.me/blog/why-asy...

Periodic reminder that modern computers are fast enough to do substantially anything without having to make the human wait, in any language. If your CLI is slow you don't need to change language (e.g. py->rs), but you should rethink how you design your code.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Is this what we call the Art of the Deal?

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that renewables aren't just better for the environment.

LLMs are gaining our trust while working at a loss... I really can't imagine what the future holds! (It's ads)

There we go

I'm officially looking around, if anybody needs a Go software engineer with a very strong background in web security lmk. I also know a fair share of frontend dev and was a SWE/SE for Google and Microsoft. I'm looking for security-sensitive dev projects and security reviews.

MacOS: I see you've set Finder to appear on 'all desktops' me: yes MacOS: So when you cmd-tab to Finder, which desktop should I switch to? me: well you shouldn't because… MacOS: So I can switch to a random desktop? YAY!

MacOS: When I restart, would you like me to re-open all these apps? me: no MacOS: hmm well that's a shame because I am going to do that. me: ok MacOS: Should I open them all maximised on the same desktop? me: no MacOS: hmm well…

Will LLMs become a fundamental tool in our box? Sure. Will they replace us? No. Linters may become very powerful Reviews may become more precise Autocomplete may be more useful Testing may become more thorough and widespread But only if we collectively take our heads out of our a###s soon

I wonder how much of this applies to software engineering.

One more ooopsie and github is going to lose their last nine. I wonder what is the cause behind this 🤔

After about 12y of Vim and 1.5y of vscode I tried @zed.dev. I have to say, the speed is impressive, there still are some minimal graphic quirks, but I don't care about those. It feels amazing to use it, but I can't switch to it yet 🧵

I am using a MacBook lately. It was a gift, so I took the chance to finally try it. I have to say: it's the best hardware AND the worst software I've ever had on a laptop. The operating system is barely usable and shaves the bar for "functional" VERY closely. But the machine is a beast. 🤔

The AI harness engineering hype is basically just people finding out that with leaner design, good encapsulation, simpler code, improved tools, working CI/CD and precise documentation one can be more effective at writing correct code.

devdocs.io is an amazing os-agnostic app that allows you to download and browse docs offline and blazingly fast. Since it's a PWA it takes a second to install, and works exactly the same everywhere. I strongly advise to give it a look.

Holy smokes @zed.dev is Dizzyingly fast. I have no doubt that with some minor improvements that they're already working on it's going to eat up a big chunk of the other editors' user base.

There's an AI-induced anti-pattern that I don't see people discussing enough about, so here is my take. 🧵

Week one of sourdough, results are staggeringly similar to those of the bread maker I own. I accidentally started this experiment as a game for my daughter but it's already surpassed my expectations.

I've started to hear about engineers using AI-written code as an excuse for broken products. Please let's not go towards a future where writing code by hand becomes a liability. Please.

I just published kotama, an experimental GOOS=tamago compiler branch that allows execution of a rich example in barely 6MB of RAM, running on an rv64imfc CPU (yes, no d or a extension). This paves the way for supporting aifoundry.org Minion cores! github.com/usbarmory/ko...

I don't see this point being discussed nearly enough. youtu.be/SKTsNV41DYg?...

The value of the code isn't just the code itself, but it's also the mental model the developers build while working on it. Taking that away with AI creates maintainers that can't maintain the code, one little change at a time.

Vibes youtu.be/BlnVP2_dIb4?...

Constantly relying on "good enough for now" as a design principle eventually turns your codebase against you. The real danger isn't the mess itself: it's the fact that you’ll never see the breaking point coming until it's too late.

Very few people know that the Go standard library has an internal DSL used to make sure that no new intra-stdlib dependencies are added when a change happens: github.com/golang/go/bl...

This is all going to be such a mess to clean up...

The first word that my eldest daughter read in her life is "Go", from one of my @golab.io t-shirts 😂. I guess having a language with a simple name has its nice quirks.

It is dismaying to see how often people are willing to sacrifice the very principle a rule was created to protect, just to ensure the rule they understood is enforced.

I just found the best use for AI: you can give it a recipe that uses units of measurement that come from the middle ages or the US and ask it to translate it to contemporary units.

Today I achieved greatness: I managed to make a thin omelette on a stainless steel pan; none stuck and it was cooked to perfection. It's not much, but it's extremely satisfying.

Does widespread browser implementation of the Sec-Fetch-Site HTTP header mean we can protect against CSRF attacks without needing those hidden form tokens? It looks like the answer may be a cautious "yes"! simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/15/...

Nice writeup :) anto.pt/articles/go-...

Go on bare metal and no os-specific code, would love for this to be accepted. github.com/golang/go/is...

I think I found an excellent use for vibe coding. If you're writing complex code with many branches, nuances or that processes untrusted inputs, you should really invest time fuzzing it. The problem with fuzzing is that it yields the best results when you can write strong assertions on the results

And it's in Go! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

I reckon we will soon see a growing demand for software engineers that can (and do) work without LLM assistance.

My talk on accepting complex inputs with simple code is out 😊 Thanks @golab.io for the amazing conference! youtu.be/Z11suX8ubGo?...

I'd love to see this implemented: github.com/golang/go/is...

After 6 years, last night I resumed writing about concurrency. Here is how to implement a chan with unlimited buffer in Go: blogtitle.github.io/go-advanced-...