Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while the parts about the desecration of the joys of programming, and fundamental human understanding of programming-are likely to become

The world's smallest VR headset: ultra-light form factor weighing just 107 grams with an unbelievable 116° field of view and eyetracking.

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Because yes, I used to write code that “just worked”… until it didn’t.

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine and Raft for consensus. Ten years ago, I tagged the first release of rqlite—a project I started to explore distributed consensus, to learn Go, and to build something useful. I had no roadmap, no plans for scale, and certainly no…

If we asked you to think of a device that converts a chemical reaction into electricity, you’d probably say we were thinking of a battery. That’s true, but there is another device that …

Protect Systems from the Foundation Up—Before Velocity Outpaces Safety

What’s a smartphone in today’s world ? It’s the object in everyone’s pocket that gets thrown away in 2.7 years lifespan. It’s a little bit more for an iPhone but that’s the industry average. And as everyone already strolls around with it glued to their hands, increasing the number of sales for this product, could mean … Continue reading "The real smartphone (and environment) killer? The Operating System."

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others.

Traditional tests don’t guarantee a bug-free system; a passing test only confirms that the tested scenario behaves as expected.

In the early days of the World Wide Web – with the Year 2000 and the threat of a global collapse of society were still years away – the crafting of a website on the WWW was both special…

Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.

BULLSHIT! That’s what I found myself yelling at a recent board meeting, unimpeded by my usual filters of propriety or self-restraint. But I couldn’t help myself. The board was debating …

A personal mind dump on operating systems

Earlier this month we covered the brewing controversy over libogc, the community-developed C library that functions as the backbone for GameCube and Wii homebrew software. Questions about how much …

On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the continuing saga of the libogc debacle. [Tom] has been interviewing some of the principals involved, so he’s got some first-hand perspective on it …

Designing from cradle to grave is no longer good enough. We need to postpone that grave as long as possible. This is how to design for a right to repair.

It is time we take a closer look about how we code with AI and the ramifications on our industry.

I’ve been reading this week about how humans learn, and effective ways of transferring knowledge. In addition, I’ve also had AI in the back of my mind, and...

The best Stratechery content from the week of May 12, 2025, including Airbnb and the limits of Founder Mode, Inside the NBA lottery in Chicago, and femtoseconds.

Flavors of genies

There was a time when version control was an exotic idea. Today, things like Git and a handful of other tools allow developers to easily rewind the clock or work on different versions of the same t…

A nice mini pc build using a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and a 5-inch display from Arnov Sharma on Hackster.io. This is a update to the Pi Box from earlier this year: This is Pi Box, an all-in-one Raspb…

Back in the 1960’s and early 70’s Bell Labs made some very sophisticated educational kits available to high schools and colleges. Designed for classroom use, they included wonderful man…

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.