Drew DeVault draws a provocative parallel between Test-Driven Development cults and GenAI adoption, arguing both exploit developers' psychological need to feel competent while potentially undermining actual code quality.
When and how CSS custom properties are calculated might not be what you expect, and it has a big impact on your styles. The default Take this HTML: <div></div><div class="second-item"> <p>…</p></di
What do you wanna bet someone's gonna get promoted for deleting this workaround from the code?
There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the GenAI giants “watermarking” their output, which to say hiding some data in it so you can tell that it’s been generated by ChatGPT or Gemini or C
I was listening to Ezra Klein’s interview with Helen Toner about the recent OpenAI hack of Hugging Face and the subsequent discovery that there were swarms of agents inside OpenAI doing unsanctioned a
Sean Goedecke wrote a post arguing that you should never be angry at work — a post with which I strongly agree. Anger can be a useful signal, but being angry at work rarely improves the situation. M
I wrote a tiny language implementation: Calcium. It’s meant as a demonstration of how languages like Python are implemented. It has a tokenizer, a parser, an AST, a compiler, bytecodes, and an executi
This is part 8 in a series of posts on writing concurrent network servers. In this part, we'll switch to Go and see how it tackles the challenges described earlier in the series. All posts in the seri
One of the memes on Twitter is that “programming is solved now.” I’m not sure to what degree it is, but one thing is pretty clear: the act of familiarizing yourself with a language no longer matters