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The death of engineering has been greatly exaggerated. You still need to know what you're doing.

How I achieved to ship code to production in the last two months without writing a single line of code by hand, with zero production incidents, zero rollbacks, and zero downtime.

I am once again thinking about programming in natural language. For most programming languages, you can parse them according to strict grammars that eliminate their ambiguity. These can get ugly,…

How Devlead.Console and a slim template fix template drift while keeping the same opinionated console bootstrap

How I run a solo AI consulting business from Slack: a fleet of single-purpose agents with the Claude tag as the meta-agent above them — reaching every surface, opening PRs, and maintaining the other…

AI gets you to a working draft fast. The trouble is what the missing fifth contains, the edge cases and operational reality that used to teach engineers their judgment, and who builds that muscle now.

The second wave of making my studio's work citable: AI installations and tools as research outputs, and the Zenodo metadata that keeps each record honest.

I make a lot of webpages. I also use Lockdown Mode on iOS and MacOS for a bit of extra security. Sometimes I realize that I forgot to test on Safari and it looks like crap, or I test and don’t…

My Vue MAD 2026 talk, written up. What an agent actually is, and the three things every Vue project needs to get more out of AI: context, feedback loops, and discoverability. The twist is that none…

A reference on conversation compaction in VS Code Copilot's agent (now in microsoft/vscode under extensions/copilot): when it triggers, the budget math, what survives, the 8-section summary format,…

How I prove a from-scratch SwiftUI engine is correct by holding it against real SwiftUI in 125 differential tests, with the actual code, the harness, the firewall, and the floating-point floor that…

Think you know your way around a test suite? These React testing interview questions cover act(), debounced inputs, mocking pitfalls, IntersectionObserver, and more. They can be harder than they look.

The brief version: The explained version:

I have been building a small step-through demo so I can watch the system read text: the sensor moves, Layer 1 settles, Layer 2 reacts, and I can replay what happened. That demo exposed a timing issue…

An early draft of my future HTML guide

An Interface Refactoring Catalog (IRC) complementing “Patterns for API Design” is available online. This post takes you through the IRC website and features selected catalog entries. Interface…

Acorn 8.6 is out! The big new things are: A new brushing engine that has been rewritten using Metal shaders. It includes an option for “velocity thinning”, where the faster you draw your brush…

BackgroundPlaytesting is one of the most important processes in game development. It helps with finding bugs, evaluating the game's UX, balancing the game, and, most importantly, assessing how…

A fast car isn’t built by continuously bolting on new parts. Every so often, it dives into the pit lane, where an entire team tears through a carefully orchestrated routine: worn tires come…

Notes on the most useful ways I am using Codex in my current workflow.

During wildfire season here in Colorado the air quality can swing fast. This lets me know when it changes.

I decided to add this to my online notepad because I use it a lot. When ripping CDs or buying mp3s, the tracks often come out with the artist name and album title in every single filename, which I…

I submitted talk proposals about Pystd, the from-scratch written standard library for C++ (custom design, not a implementation of the ISO specification) to a bunch of conferences. Unfortunately all…

Today's post took a bit of a pivot. I decided to work on a demo idea I had created way back in March. As I worked on it, I ran into multiple roadblocks, and while that original idea for a demo may…

Siendo N un número natural y X * Y = N, decimos que X e Y son divisores de N. Por ejemplo, si N = 15, X = 3 e Y = 5, podemos decir que 3 y 5 son divisores de 15. Como la multiplicación es…

I made another short film, this time a little bit inside the sausage factory that makes Current, my rss reader. I won’t be able to hold up this cadence of two videos in a week, but this one was…

Part I traveled further than I expected. The line that caught was the thirty-eight minutes: Fable 5 took an empty directory to a booting, NT-shaped kernel in Rust in thirty-eight minutes of active…

Part one laid out two models for least-privilege MCP tool calls: carry a narrow token, or decide each call at the resource. Both leave the same gaps on plain OAuth. AuthZEN standardizes the policy…

A detailed review into union types, closed class heirarchies and the result pattern in C#.

The Blob is a class or function that has absorbed too many responsibilities over time until nobody fully knows what it does anymore. It shows up in codebases everywhere, even the best ones, and it…

Hello and welcome back to another exciting tutorial! In part 1 we built a symmetrical mandala with smoothing, speed-based thickness, and Tweakpane.Today we're leveling up that same foundation…

Ben Nadel demonstrates how he turns flat hierarchical data into a tree structures in ColdFusion using a two pass, O(n) algorithm....

Markdown QuickLook (macOS) ( github ) A tiny macOS Quick Look extension. Select a .md file in Finder, press space, and read it rendered the way it was meant to look — headings, code, tables and task…

My learning journey deploying an Astro site with millions of pages

Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working…

In this part of the series we look at how Atari St and Amiga handles ASCII text and we create a hard-coded dungeon in C. The post ASCII Dungeon Tiles on Amiga and Atari ST (C Programming) appeared…

(jump right to the tool here if you want to try it out right away) I’ve been seriously into Japanese literature now for roughly two decades, and I remember being overjoyed to discover Aozora Bunko, a…

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In 2024 I started making a star system generator that uses the Traveller5 (T5) rules. I originally wanted to make a Star Frontiers (SF) inspired setting using the Star Without Numbers RPG (SWN). I…

For the first time since the pandemic, I have resumed active, public development of Plerd , the software that freshly publishes this blog every time I update a certain directory of Markdown source…

A couple of months ago I moved to a new team at work. The team had been running for a while before I joined, and there was a lot of context I didn't have — issues, discussions, strategy docs, repos…

It’s audit season. And if you’re a SaaS startup, you know exactly what that means.The dreaded “Change Management” evidence request. Some auditor sends you a list of 15 random commit SHAs…

A system-level language with Go syntax and a familiar standard library.

I ran /context in Claude Code and found my memory files eating 49.5k tokens before I’d typed a single word. I’d assumed those files loaded only when relevant. They were loading in full,…

A peculiar bug Today I fixed a very interesting bug. The code reads //Segment lineage entries are sorted in chronological order by lineageEntries . entrySet () . stream () . sorted ( Map . Entry .…

Generate 100GbE line-rate traffic (142 Mpps) with TRex 3.06 on a Mellanox ConnectX-5: hardware, the frame-size math, config, streams, and tuning. Continue reading →

How to avoid a "templated letters" rejection for your Global Talent Visa application.

How structured logs helped Codex fix a year-old bug, and why logs are the key to unlocking autonomous workflows.

Dostalo se mi možnosti přednášet na OSSConf v Žilině . Tak se tam do toho pustím hned dvěma přednáškami.