Compiler goes to programmer. "Programmer, I am in rough shape. Mutable references abound and the tiniest changes break API compatibility." Programmer replies, "The treatment is simple! Rewrite in Haskell and GHC will sort you right out." Compiler bursts into tears: "But I am GHC!"

The person who aces a whiteboard interview and the person who is best at agentic coding are increasingly different people, and the increasingly different is going to produce a hiring crisis.

Coal storage infrastructure

anyone developing a competitor to github actions should not be pushing yaml for their configuration

build system yuri published: media.ccc.de/v/lixcon-202...

ah, eto... bleh!

we must build the nurture nexus

new release from my team at work: build code with #buck2, distribute it with #nix and docker fast, user friendly, and reliable project builds with the full breadth and power of nixpkgs for dependencies and releases github.com/mercurytechn...

"Humans won't work unless they're forced to" is a myth for stupid people. If you're paying attention, humanity loves to do the job... they just don't like to be exploited and abused just to survive, the 2 tools people THINK you need to inflict upon humans to make them work.

🦀🔐☠️ Tired of deadlocks? Me too! Here's a post about a library that I've been working on to help wrangle the problem in Rust notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Surelock

Sat down with Claude and banged out ... not a bad prototype of the "Helm but fuck string formatting YAML; make it starlark" I've been thinking about for a while gist.github.com/arrdem/5c229...

Probably one of these idk

SLS, NASA's Moon rocket 🌙🚀

We have Create trains on our Minecraft server and I jokingly said "imagine if we could use our Suicas at the gates" CC:Tweaked w/ Advanced Peripherals, websockets server in Python, and I forked an app that reads raw data from ICs No AI code whatsoever because fuck your Claude, I can do it myself

I don't know how to say it emphatically enough, but _so many_ of the obstacles people face are exacerbated by them backing away from what they perceive their opponents (bosses, political adversaries, etc.) to be, instead of accurately assessing what really lies in front of them.

oh my god. buck2 added support today for playing various games while your builds are running. incredible. magnificent

boss to a human employee when they make a mistake: you're fired boss to a computer when it makes a mistake: you are a delicate flower capable of love

feature backports are a bargain with the devil. maybe you need em but you will regret em.

a very thoughtful piece about Kevin Roche’s wild Union Carbide campus www.irisyaun.com/writing/for-...

woke 1 is renaming master to main. woke 2 is switching to jj

good, remove improvements from it to make it a land value tax next

i love that this list treats llm code review assistants, generating test cases with claude, vibe coding, having an ai generated profile picture, opt-in ai integrations in shipped software (not the code), and “gitignoring CLAUDE dot md” are all treated as morally equivalent

thanks everyone for helping build out a culture of fear and moral purity and contamination paranoia in software engineering, it will definitely help us have honest and levelheaded conversations about the utility of ai codeberg.org/small-hack/o...

from now until the end of april, I'm running a 50% discount on my book "building git", just enter voucher code BGAPR2026 shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

holy cursed github.com/IBM/fp-go

everyone who claims that ai tools are bad “because of copyright theft” thinks it’s awesome that robert kurvitz cannot legally create the disco elysium sequel he dreamed of www.tumblr.com/txttletale/7...

"Too often, safety engineers are busy doing safety analyses, while the system engineers are in parallel making critical decisions about system design and concepts of operation that are not based on that hazard analysis." (Engineering a Safer World) this whole thing smacks of Heming on separate QA!

Your intellectual fly is open bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/y...

i have been reading Deming and i think the entire software industry's management philosophy might be totally cooked: management by objectives (OKRs) is broken, quality is traded off, etc here's a starting point and you assuredly won't get *less* mad by reading the books apenwarr.ca/log/20161226

Shen Yun: America before gamergate

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ICYMI my latest newsletter has: early themes from interviewing folks about using my Learning-Opportunities Claude Skill, the power of self-regulated learning, and interview with @mcmullarkey.bsky.social and... www.fightforthehuman.com/cognitive-he...

Thanks to the power of iPhone, Microsoft Teams is now available in the toilet. #digitalTransformation #productivity #innovation

took some discipline to not post this on linkedin

THEY HAVE RESURRECTED MY SON

need to take more good tooling photos

tool design lesson: make your tools print embarrassing log lines to everyone if some step is taking unreasonably long. then they don't have to do anything to profile for trivial problems. buck2 does this to build actions: it shows them in red if they take more than 5s.

"localized power issue" (bombs and fire) condolences to the aws employees fixing this for the us government ruining their weeks (actually, *huh*. causing repeat downtime with weapons might have global effects on ability to get anything done at aws.) health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Monorepo means that they can have one version of every dependency. Linters fail non-standard tech at build time. Uniform agent skills. When you standardize, agents do better, verification is easier, then reviewing & planning is easier, which makes the standardization process faster.

um dia com texto novo do @apenwarr.ca é um bom dia! apenwarr.ca/log/20260316

panama could do the funniest thing rn

As someone who gets paid a lot of money to provide contract engineers for scientific industry who use a whole lot of AI, I can't disagree more. The best way to understand LLMs is that if you're about to run headfirst into a brick wall, they take you there faster.

I like using chain link fences to frame subjects in my photos — it’s much nicer than cursing the fences in my way. This is the MBTA Red Line coach yard in Boston Massachusetts. April 1, 2025

the reaction to every "we built X with LLMs" story needs to be "how have you verified it". it's way too easy to spin hype out of simulacra of working software that turns out to be garbage. they're running the newspaper correction playbook

I'm generally on the pro-AI side, but every now and then I hit an executive function block and try to have them write prose for me and it never works. Blog posts and papers should not be written by LLMs, the result isn't very good and it's disrespectful to the humans asked to read them.

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

[new blog post] TLA+ as a Design Accelerator: Lessons from the Industry muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/03/tla-...

enormously hot take: the reason a bunch of midwit software dev people are in their feels about agentic tooling is that it proves that good requirements specification and technical project management were the hard problem it's important for a human to be able to solve all along, not Coding™