Essay: Performance Reviews in Big Tech: Why “Fair” Systems Still Fail
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Why Big Tech Performance Reviews Aren’t Meritocratic
How to gaslight employees at scale
Announcing winapp, the Windows App Development CLI
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Announcing winapp, the Windows App Development CLI
We are excited to announce the public preview of the Windows App Development CLI (winapp), a new open-source c
Underground Resistance Aims To Sabotage AI With Poisoned Data
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Underground Resistance Aims To Sabotage AI With Poisoned Data
The Poison Fountain project is trying to start a techno-uprising with its manifesto and sabotage playbook.
Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
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Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
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From the programming community on Reddit: Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
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Why I’m ignoring the "Death of the Programmer" hype
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The AI Revolution in Coding: Why I’m Ignoring the Prophets of Doom – Coding Is My Craft
The AI Revolution in Coding: Why I’m Ignoring the Prophets of Doom Every day, we are bombarded with headlines about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is "disrupting" every industry in its path. Software development is at the epicenter of this hype. With the…
I let the community vote on what code gets merged. Someone snuck in self-boosting code. 218 voted for it. When I tried to reject it, they said I couldn't.
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Week 3: The Trojan Horse
A PR hid vote manipulation in plain sight. Democracy overruled the maintainer. So the maintainer wrote a constitution.
cURL Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program Over AI Slop Overrun
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cURL Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program Over AI Slop Overrun
Daniel Stenberg says the inflow of AI slop has become unsustainable for the curl security team to handle.
Why Developing For Microsoft SharePoint is a Horrible, Terrible, and Painful Experience
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Why Developing For Microsoft SharePoint is a Horrible, Terrible, and Painful Experience
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How we created more tech debt in 6 months than in a 10-year-old system
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Anthropic: AI assisted coding doesn't show efficiency gains and impairs developers abilities.
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How AI Impacts Skill Formation
AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to...
The dev who asks too many questions is the one you need in your team
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The teammate who asks too many questions is the one you need
How to stop treating questions as interruptions and start seeing them as gifts
Thoughts? Software companies that went extreme into AI coding are not enjoying what they are getting - show reports from 2024-2025
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Your AI diagram looks great and nobody will read it
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Your AI diagram looks great and nobody will read it
Why markdown diagrams beat generated slop every time
How Replacing Developers With AI is Going Horribly Wrong
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You can code only 4 hours per day. Here’s why.
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You can code only 4 hours per day. Here’s why.
Most of us have felt it: after a few solid hours of coding, your brain starts shutting down.
In Praise of –dry-run
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In Praise of –dry-run
For the last few months, I have been developing a new reporting application. Early on, I decided to add a –dry-run option to the run command. This turned out to be quite useful – I have…