GitHub is part of a $3T company and has been inserting itself into every part of a developer's workflow for a decade now. I fully expect them to handle that.

28 years ago, I built MicroLinux - the first Croatian Linux distro: senko.net/microlinux/

Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/

Ako da - pridružite nam se na ZGBit meetupu u Maksimirskoj 51 sutra (16.4.) u 17 h. Prijavite se na sljedećem linku jer je broj mjesta ograničen. Vidimo se! www.meetup.com/zg-bit-zagre...

I am amazed that to this day people blame Spotify for artists getting paid peanuts. Spotify pays a huge sum (70% of their revenue) to record labels, who keep the lion's share and pass on crumbs to the artists. How the labels convinced the world that Spotify was the bad guy here is beyond belief.

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

About (not using) MCP

See, the Earth is flat. Also, fragile.

Ovaj smo mjesec na gradskoj skupštinu imali izvješće o radu u 2025. pa sam kao i prošle godine pripremio sažetak napravljenog u gradskom IT-u u protekloj godini kao novi newsletter.

Exploring how a clock untethered to our civilisation norms - but still useful in everyday life - could work: senko.net/clock/ (inspired by a recent HN discussion)

I wrote up my experience with using mutation testing for catching bad, smelly, LLM-written tests: blog.senko.net/improving-ai... Turns out, it's really useful and easy to do.

Turns out mutation testing is effective for making sure LLM-written tests actually do something useful.

This is a fun and useful tool! 1) drives home the fact that once you publish something, it's there, there's no going back, no matter what legions of GDPR legalists tell you 2) interesting to see how the writing is perceived from a neutral party, might highlight some aspects one is not aware of

I spoke about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit last month, in a fireside chat hosted by Eric Lui - here's the half hour video plus highlight quotes and extra notes from our conversation simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/14/...

On AI hype, flame wars, and dealing with the resulting hype fatigue: blog.senko.net/flame-wars-a...

Code reviews don't scale when you have thousands of lines of code built daily. We need to rethink them in the age of AI. I posted some of my thoughts about it here: senkorasic.com/articles/ret...

did captain picard lead the x-men

Ever wondered what that helpful "curl | bash" installer actually does? Paste it into curl-bash-explain.dev and find out!

Lansirali smo novi web gradskih vrtića s objedinjenim pregledom javnih nabava i natječaja za zapošljavanje. Uz to su modernizirane i ujednačene stranice pojedinih vrtića s lako dostupnim informacijama o upisima, jelovnicima itd.

Github is down. If only we had a DISTRIBUTED version control system...

A few months ago I gave a talk about responsible AI-assisted software engineering: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Dk... Since then I see more teams shifting towards the "vibe-code" (light review) end of AI usage spectrum - I'll have to make an update soon :)

Here's how I use bubblewrap to (mostly) safely use Claude in yolo mode in Linux: blog.senko.net/sandboxing-a...

Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day. On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

Word of the day: clauding → coding using an AI agent. "Vibe coding" has negative connotations and "AI-assisted software software development" is unwieldy. What if you use Codex? Well, if you can google using Bing, you can claude using Codex.

This is slightly depressing: Claude Code just churned 4K lines of code (addition to existing project), I just had to add two lines of config. Of course it didn't work. Spent half an hour debugging. I incorrectly copy-pasted those two lines.

AI labs scraping your sites steal your content and increase your hosting costs to boot. Agree or disagree? Here's my humble suggestion on how to solve the AI scraping problem: senkorasic.com/articles/ai-...

LLMs and other tools are great, use them wisely 🧙 fastapi.tiangolo.com/contributing...

New blog post: Don't fall into the anti-AI hype. antirez.com/news/158

StackOverflow was already in free-fall. LLMs just removed the (air) friction.

leroy jenkins maneuver

How and why I'm learning Zig: blog.senko.net/learning-zig

Straight from the Mire of the Goat, the sharpest cut of this talk I wrote 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrK...

Why you should self-host: blog.senko.net/developer-co...

I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...

A 2025 vibe-coding wrap-up featuring 9 frontier models implementing Minesweeper, a silly test I used to quickly evaluate their coding: github.com/senko/vibesw... Most had no problems, so I'm retiring it as a test. Next year I'm going to be using something a bit more challenging...

We might be in an "AI bubble" thinkpiece bubble...

It's been a while since I had any trouble connecting my Linux laptop to an external display for meetings or presentations. No trouble whatsoever with printing & scanning. Even Bluetooth headphones work flawlessly. The Year of Linux on Desktop has quietly but truly arrived!

From a squirrel: "We interview devs by giving them a task to climb a tree. What is surprising: 14/15 rabbits failed this screening."

Zet CLI aplikacija. Mislim da samo mene veseli, ali neka. :)

OpenStreetMap Crash Course Održat će se u Srijedu 05.11. u 19h na: www.twitch.tv/turing_compl... Sadržaj: - uvod u OSM, kratka prezentacija s primjerima - primjer rješavanja konkretnih zadataka Trajanje cca 1h. Svi su dobrodošli naučiti malo o mapiranju. bezdomni.net/osm-crash-co...

Evo ako je itko zainteresiran malo poslušati o otvorenim kartama, pripremit ću kratko predavanje i demo cca 1h, idući tjedan jednu večer. Napravio sam poll pa se upišite kad možete. Svi dobrodošli, ne morate nužno išta raditi kasnije. :) strawpoll.com/3RnYXaxBmye

"It's hard to get someone to fix a bug when their bottom line benefits from the bug not being fixed.", to paraphrase a popular quip.

Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/

Succintly put: "AI is writing 90% of the code [...] At the same time, AI doesn't own the code, [I] carry the responsibility for how it runs in production." As an aside, happy to see I'm not the only maniac using AI to write raw SQL where I used to use ORM: github.com/senko/cijene...

The AlchemyConf version of my "Tell me a Story" talk is finally out 🎉 content.subvisual.com/talk-roundta...

Neka pati koga smeta, svaka bi ih majka za ZETa! (za kontekst, natječe se 25 država)

Next, people are going to call buying used books "stealing" because the authors get no money at all from the secondary sales. I better sell a few of mine that I don't like enough to keep forever, before it gets outlawed as "piracy".

Wer stoppt Siemens?