Tim van der Lippe steps down as Mockito maintainer
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Stepping down as maintainer after 10 years · Issue #3777 · mockito/mockito
In March 2026, I will be Mockito maintainer for 10 years (nearly a third of my whole life). Looking ahead, I decided that a decade milestone is a good moment to pass on maintainership to other folk...
What does the software engineering job market look like heading into 2026?
https://www.finalroundai.com/blog/software-engineering-job-market-2026
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Software Engineering Job Market Outlook for 2026
Here is our future outlook for the software engineering job market in 2026 and what developers can expect next.
The rise and fall of robots.txt
https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders
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The rise and fall of robots.txt
As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
Rich Hickey: Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
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Simple Made Easy
Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.
PSA: Be aware when opening "take home challenges" from untrusted recruiters
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From the programming community on Reddit: PSA: Be aware when opening "take home challenges" from untrusted recruiters
Posted by Phantom569 - 529 votes and 29 comments
no strcpy either
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/
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no strcpy either
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite…
Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
https://herbsutter.com/2025/12/30/software-taketh-away-faster-than-hardware-giveth-why-c-programmers-keep-growing-fast-despite-competition-safety-and-ai/
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Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
2025 was another great year for C++. It shows in the numbers Before we dive into the data below, let’s put the most important question up front: Why have C++ and Rust been the fastest-growing major…
I used an old-school security trick to catch prompt injection on AI agents
https://github.com/mariocandela/beelzebub
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GitHub - mariocandela/beelzebub: A secure low code honeypot framework, leveraging AI for System Virtualization.
A secure low code honeypot framework, leveraging AI for System Virtualization. - mariocandela/beelzebub
Article: Why Big Tech Turns Everything Into a Knife Fight
https://medium.com/@dmitrytrifonov/why-big-tech-turns-everything-into-a-knife-fight-42e221944ec8
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Why Big Tech Turns Everything Into a Knife Fight
On ambition, pressure, and survival inside large organizations
We’re not concerned enough about the death of the junior-level software engineer
https://medium.com/@austin-starks/the-death-of-the-code-monkey-why-i-fear-for-the-class-of-2026-13dbf531a76f
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We’re not concerned enough about the future of junior-level software engineering
Why I fear for the class of 2026
Why users cannot create Issues directly
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Why users cannot create Issues directly · Issue #3558 · ghostty-org/ghostty
Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first. Unlike some other projects, Ghostty does not use the issue tracker for discussion or ...
Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google.
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Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google.
Kenneth Lane Thompson, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses development of the Go programming language at Google in the early 2000s, its relationship the company’s cloud computing platform, and its eventual success…
Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google.
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Thompson tells how he developed the Go language at Google.
Kenneth Lane Thompson, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses development of the Go programming language at Google in the early 2000s, its relationship the company’s cloud computing platform, and its eventual success…
We’re not concerned enough about the death of the junior-level software engineer
https://medium.com/@austin-starks/the-death-of-the-code-monkey-why-i-fear-for-the-class-of-2026-13dbf531a76f
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We’re not concerned enough about the future of junior-level software engineering
Why I fear for the class of 2026
Why users cannot create Issues directly
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558
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Why users cannot create Issues directly · Issue #3558 · ghostty-org/ghostty
Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first. Unlike some other projects, Ghostty does not use the issue tracker for discussion or ...
LLMs will never be alive or intelligent, and "agents" will never know and cater to our every need
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LLMs will never be alive or intelligent
And "agents" will never know and cater to our every need
Stackoverflow: Questions asked per month over time.
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
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From the programming community on Reddit: Stackoverflow: Questions asked per month over time.
Posted by lelanthran - 160 votes and 67 comments