360 feedback: why it fails (and what actually works)
Lots of good quotes in here relating to how negative the 360 review process is; and I find myself nodding along to a lot of it.
your ai slop bores me
Possibly the best AI chat bot we have right now.
Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
Simon Willison's take on the whole chardet issue.
No right to relicense this project | Hacker News
HackerNews weighing in on the chardet legal/ethical issue.
No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet
Well this is a whole furball of legal and AI issues. I think the thing that gets me here is the apparent motives of the current maint'. It doesn't matter how you cut it with the legal side of things, what they've done, for me, is a real ethical issue.
My vibe-coded startup was exploited. I lost $2500 in stripe fees. 175 customers were charged $500 each, before i was able to rotate API keys. I still don't blame Claude Code. I trusted it too much.… | Anton Karbanovich | 316 comments
LinkedIn post where someone posts a lesson from their own experience, but they don't seem to realise the real lesson they're posting and they don't seem to be learning from it.
What Is Code Review For?
Good post about the point of code reviews, and also about how they're probably more important than ever now.
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
Hard to ignore or argue with this one (not that I would want to argue with this one).
fun with static site generators
A pretty good review of lots of static site generators.
World Orogen — Procedural Planet Generator
Reminds me of a program I used to mess with back in the late 90s (I think it was). I forget the name, might have been Terragen or similar. This has a similar vibe.
The Last One
Scan of an article about The Last One from back in 1981.
Personal Computer World (1981-02)
Includes the article about The Last One.
Slidev
Slides. For presentations. For developers. You write Markdown and pretty things happen. I like this.
Obsidian CLI - Obsidian Help
Obsidian (now?) has a command line interface, that lets you script stuff outwth of the app. This could be super useful!
Best practices for using GitHub Copilot to work on tasks - GitHub Enterprise Cloud Docs
General documentation on getting the best out of GitHub Copilot, when it comes to directing it.
Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules
Today on "AI is going great"...
Linear walkthroughs - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Interesting idea: point an agent at a codebase and get it to write you a linear walkthrough of it.
Better presentations through storytelling and STAR moments
Some useful advice to consider when preparing (and giving) a presentation.
RFC 406i - The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS)
Gonna have to keep this to hand...
davep (Dave Pearson) - GitHub Analytics | GitRanks
It's a bit silly, but it's also kinda fun.
archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog
Well this is unfortunate. As someone on the outside, archive.* has often seemed like a useful service; it's sad to see that the person(s) behind it might not be quite the Internet hero some make out.
We ask Kojima Productions why they’ve stuck to Decima for nearly ten years.
Death Stranding and Death Stranding 2 look amazing. I don't think any other game has made my PS5 look as good as these two do. There seems to be a reason for it...
Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful...
A paper that asks the question: does AGENTS.md make any difference?
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
Having spent a few days finally taking an "agentic" approach to building a project, one thing I noticed was I didn't personally enjoy the process. I enjoyed the outcome, I enjoyed the result, but the actual process was a boring slog. I also felt that I was losing something too.
This covers this concern.
The Final Bottleneck
Having really dived into my first "agent-based" project, just to see how the process really feels, I can vibe with this article.
Common Lisp Screenshots
Screenshots of apps and stuff that are developed in some way using Common Lisp.
Subject access request Q and As for employers
Useful information regarding the right to access information held on you by your employer. While this is written as advice to the company, it's also informative about what you, as an employee, can ask.
AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder for Developers
A pretty reasonable view of what AI in software development could be, should be, but at the moment isn't being.
naver/lispe: An implementation of a full fledged Lisp interpreter with Data Structure, Pattern Programming and High level Functions with Lazy Evaluation à la Haskell.
Yet another Lisp. I'm all up for yet another Lisp.
Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly — Spritely Institute
Scheme in the browser. What's not to like?