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The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but handles them sensibly. Let’s see how, by returning to our line-counter project.

The dirty secret tech leaders won’t admit: No-code isn’t coming for your job — it’s handing you the keys to the kingdom

One more proof that it needs independent community events.

An arduously long blog post

If you're not a "UNIX person", the idea of writing a command line application can be scary and off-putting. The command line is so intimidating to…

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We tried building a game using only AI—no debugging, no coding, no Googling. It wasn't that bad of an experience.

Backoff and jitter smooth short bursts but can’t manage continuous load increases.

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Or things that are not mathematically precise will cause you pain down the line.

You can now use Claude to search the internet to provide more up-to-date and relevant responses. With web search, Claude has access to the latest events and information, boosting its accuracy on ta…

First, the tl;dr: I am working on a financial ledger implementation implemented entirely in PostgreSQL called pgledger.

Crontab (short for "cron table") is a powerful utility in Unix-like operating systems that allows users to schedule and automate the execution of tasks at specified times. The utility is based on the cron daemon, which continuously runs in the backgr...

If you’ve been in this trade for a while, you have probably seen dozens of debates on the merits and problems of SQL as a relational database query language. As an ORM maintainer, I have a few gripes with SQL, but overall it is workable, and anyway, it has so much inertia that there’s no point fantasizing about a replacement.

"The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade." - Benjamin Franklin

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Last week, X exploded when a “vibe coder” announced his SaaS was under attack. His business, built entirely with AI assistance and “zero hand-written code,” was experiencing bypassed subscriptions, maxed-out API keys, and database corruption. His follow-up admission made this notable: “as you know, I’m not technical so this is taking me longer than usual to figure out.” As someone deeply immersed in the AI code generation space, I’ve been watching this unfold with a mix of sympathy and frustration. Let me be clear — I’m not against AI-assisted development. My own tool aims to improve code generation quality. But there’s a growing and dangerous fantasy that technical knowledge is optional in the new AI-powered world. After observing many similar (though less public) security disasters, I’ve come to a controversial conclusion: vibe coding isn’t just inefficient — it’s potentially catastrophic.

Write faster code by understanding how it flows through your CPU

My lessons learned, dos and donts from breaking down monoliths. I gathered my experience on what to do before even starting. I explained hy defining real business metrics is critical and why you should assume that many Monoliths parts will stay. Of course I mentioned the Strangler Fig pattern, but went further than that!

Even the best policies fail if they aren’t adopted by the teams they’re intended to serve. Can we persistently change our company’s behaviors with a one-time announcement? No, probably not. I refer to the art of making policies work as “operations” or “strategy operations.” The good news is that effectively operating a policy is two-thirds avoiding common practices that simply don’t work. The other one-third takes some practice, but can be practiced in any engineering role: there’s no need to wait until you’re an executive to start building mastery.

Posted on Wednesday 19 Mar 2025. 519 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

They work in the beta version.

It turns out that the history of the snap fastener is actually surprisingly relevant to the political moment that we’re currently in.

The Things You Don't Know Will Definitely Hurt You

Three months ago I published my annual predictions, and while I rarely revisit them in the middle of the year, I do want to note an interesting development related to prediction #3, which states: &…

Hello, friends! I’ve been thinking back on my career recently, which I’ve had plenty of time to do, considering that I am exploring creative outlets like blogging, and that I’m cu…

Next month will mark the one year anniversary of when I emerged back into the real world, staggering into the light from an 18 year stay in the developer mines at Google.

I'm done talking about microservices: the term is confusing, discussions are abstract, and without organisational change, microservices are pointless

I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...

It feels quite uncomfortable that cloudflare is somewhat openly admitting to analysing login credentials that are going through the reverse proxy, and providing...