#Software

From my experience, people like functions like "map" and "filter", but not "reduce".

The manifestation of my imposter syndrome, for me and today, is what does it mean to be a software engineer. There’s a lot more noise than signal on the Internet about agentic engineering, wh…

As AI coding assistants shift the developer's primary role from writing boilerplate to reviewing and maintaining systems, language choice becomes critical for long-term architectural integrity.…

The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...

Why AI can make software development faster without replacing the judgment and understanding needed to build consistently good software.

The tools themselves are new and their capabilities are in constant flux. If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it every time; that’s a hard tool to build trust in.…

In college, I took a religious studies class called The Letters of Paul. I took it for two very good reasons:

Not a weighty meandering 300 page Zen dialogue on Motorcycle Maintenance. Merely a meandering blog post in which one contemplates /Quality/ of software products.

GitHub isn't just falling short on performance and reliability. The whole collaboration paradigm is the wrong shape for how we build software now.

As I’m writing this, we’re in the middle of an AI-induced mass psychosis. People are literally token-maxxing themselves into hospital beds, scrambling to capture some of that market value before everything is automated away. I can’t blame them.…

A brief comment on Codeberg's new terms, and why a free-software host deciding which projects are welcome worries me more than the bans themselves.

Contribute to humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents development by creating an account on GitHub.

PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad.…

To build the future, we need new ways of supporting software teams. This book will give you a secret weapon: the psychology that creates resilience for developers, sustainable practices for software teams, and innovation for organizations.…

In the previous article, we explored the importance of standards: how the unspoken agreements governing electrical sockets, paper sizes and file formats form the foundations of a world in which choices remain open and power is not concentrated in the…

Connecting some LG monitors to a Windows PC may automatically install software that promotes McAfee subscriptions.

In good old times, StarLink was a board that turned an IBM PC into a multiuser system.