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Reflections on Software Engineering in the Age of AI
AI has turned software development from a creative flow-state craft into bot supervision, eroding skills and eliminating the junior developers who become tomorrow's seniors.
Testing Webhooks: The Pattern I Keep Reaching For
Replace ngrok tunnels and sleep() calls with the inbox pattern — a deterministic webhook testing approach that separates reception from processing and runs cleanly in CI.
Learn to Code Without Memorizing a Single Line - Build Your First Python AI Agent
Developers don't memorize code — and this guide proves it by walking beginners through building a real Python AI agent from scratch.
What I Look For in a Laravel Project Before Writing a Single Line of Code
A 90-minute Laravel codebase triage covering migrations, N+1 queries, leaked credentials, authorization gaps, and test coverage before writing a line of code.
Fontdue: The fastest font renderer in the world, written in pure rust
Fontdue is a pure Rust, no_std font rasterizer claiming the lowest end-to-end latency for TrueType and OpenType rendering.
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A Guide to AI Cold Starts on Cloud Run
Cloud Run AI cold starts don't have to cost 20 seconds — here's a four-phase breakdown with production-proven fixes to slash latency.
Akrites: The Latest Attempt to Protect Open-Source from AI Attacks Has Arrived
Akrites unifies tech giants to coordinate open-source vulnerability fixes as AI slashes exploit timelines to under zero days.
Bringing Swift to the Apple II
A developer built a Swift-flavored bytecode interpreter and REPL for the 1977 Apple II, cramming it into just 40,704 bytes of usable RAM.
All you need is PostgreSQL
Most engineering teams over-complicate systems with unnecessary infrastructure when PostgreSQL alone can handle complex business rules, auditing, and analytics — even at bank scale. The boring choice is often the brilliant one.
Some learnings from temporal.io building SDKs for 8 languages
How Temporal built one Rust core shared across seven language SDKs, cutting development time in half and slashing bugs with a clean bridge-layer architecture.
Extract structured JSON from messy text with Telnyx AI Inference
Extract structured JSON from support tickets and emails using Telnyx AI Inference and a lightweight Flask API.
Deploying a Containerized Backend to a VPS with Docker Compose + GitHub Actions (A Beginner's Runbook)
A copy-pasteable, language-agnostic guide to shipping backend apps with Docker Compose and GitHub Actions, including real deployment errors and fixes.
TanStack Start RSC vs. Next.js RSC: Performance, DX, and production readiness
TanStack Start vs Next.js RSC: same app, same features, real benchmark results — smaller bundles but a less mature production story.
Your AI Agent Keeps Missing The Real Bottleneck. JetBrains Rider Can Fix It Now.
Rider's AI Assistant can now read dotTrace snapshots directly, turning unreliable performance guesses into evidence-backed root-cause diagnoses.
Programming Languages, Targets, and Platforms: What You Need to Know
Modern languages now target multiple platforms — JVM, native, Wasm, JS — but AI-assisted rewrites may soon challenge the whole multi-target strategy.
The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming
LLMs could finally make Aspect Oriented Programming practical by replacing brittle join-point matching with semantic, document-driven code generation.
FastPlay, a fast minimal Windows video player built in Rust
FastPlay is a lean, Rust-built Windows video player that prioritizes fast local file playback over broad features like streaming or playlists.
The 5 Mandatory Soft Skills Engineers Must Have in the Age of AI
AI handles the mechanical work, but trust, empathy, judgment, and collaboration are still exclusively human skills that drive tech careers.
Codex is now the recommended agent in JetBrains IDEs
JetBrains now defaults to Codex as its recommended AI coding agent, chosen via real-world benchmarks and A/B testing across Java, C#, and Python tasks.
How to Write an Effective Software Design Document
A design doc is a planning tool used by companies like Google and Microsoft to think through technical decisions before writing code. Document only high-stakes decisions—ones that would require a complete rewrite to undo.
Refactoring Without Breaking Production: A Practical Guide for Modern Software Teams
Use small incremental changes, automated tests, feature flags, and monitoring to refactor safely — reducing technical debt without breaking live systems.
Claude Code Refactoring: A Practical Workflow
Refactoring with Claude Code requires a structured three-phase workflow—dependency analysis, reviewed planning, then incremental execution with git commits and tests—because its autonomous file-editing capabilities make...
Gifhub, bug hunter that shows instead of tells
Gifhub autonomously finds and fixes bugs in web apps, documenting each fix with before-and-after GIFs. It then opens pull requests, making issues easy for non-technical reviewers to understand without reading code.