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In this article, we will discuss the various autonomous agents that are utilised in our new platform, and how they come together to provide a seamless integration experience.

Godspeed is a todo manager built for speed. 100% keyboard driven, every interaction in 50ms.

Automating information retrieval with AI-powered chatbots stops your engineers from serving as “human search engines” for colleagues.

The emergence of a conflict between Qualcomm and Arm over desktop chip dominance feels like a revival of one of the PC industry’s most important conflicts.

How the Brannock Device, a measuring tool you’ve definitely seen but don’t know the name of, made it a lot easier to figure out our shoe size.

There’s a key piece of magic in the engineering of the Internet which you rely on every single day. It happens in the TCP protocol, one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet. TCP…

“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.

Product-minded engineers are developers with lots of interest in the product itself. They want to understand why decisions are made, how people use the product, and love to be involved in making product decisions. They're someone who would likely make a good product manager if they ever decide to give

Computers can be understood • Choose Boring Technology • The Wrong Abstraction • Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names • The Hiring Post • The Product-Minded Engineer • Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend • The Law of Leaky Abstractions • Reflections on software performance • Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods • End-to-End Arguments in System Design • Inventing on Principle

Balancing speed, simplicity, and future-proofing in feature development is a subtle art. Let's take a look at some ways to approach this!

Pretend you have a really great programming day.   You only have to attend a few meetings, have only a few off-topic conversations, don'...

I thought I'd share one of the most maniacal piles of JavaScript that I have ever written. It is monstrously awful, and does something useful and beautiful. It is a love-hate relationship without the love. I speak of course of the DNA Lounge Sign Generator. This is the page that we use at the club for printing signs in our signature style: drink special signs, reserved table signs, window pie

The advice I left for my team on my last day as an engineer at HashiCorp

Showing sources is not enough; design encounters. Some thoughts. And the latest notions from the news, a paper on AI and democracy, and more.

Recently I received an AI-written email from a friend. I'm trying to understand why I had the reaction to it that I did.

Designer, game maker, and writer in Portland, OR. One of the good ones.

The RCA Selectavision was a catastrophic revolution in home entertainment.

Daryl Baxter writing for iMore: iPadOS 18 Looks Great, but It Still Doesn't Fix the iPad's Biggest Problem I want to be clear — the features that Calculator brings to the iPad, as well as the Math Notes that you can use with Apple Pencil and Notes are fantastic. Users who

Are we entering a new phase in AI with Apple Intelligence, capitalizing on embodied intelligence? And other news on human-AI partnering and robotic performances ao.

Apple Intelligence makes a lot of sense when you get out of the AI bubble. Plus, the cool technical details Apple shared about their language models "thinking different."

Posted on Tuesday 11 Jun 2024. 1,874 words, 19 links. By Matt Webb.

Simple Mobile Tools was purchased and now does everything it used to refuse to. Fossify is a privacy-respecting fork.

Princeton is famous for its university, but the town is also known for its amazing ice cream shops. There are…

How should you structure your engineering organization? What are the boundaries of a team? In this blog post, we discuss organization design in the context of software development teams and explain how your business context should play into those decisions.

Posted on Friday 7 Jun 2024. 745 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.