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Sep 07

NOTE Engineering Speed And Abstractions Create Longer Failure Paths, An Unacknowledged Tradeoff

Software Engineering #software-engineering #system-understanding #faster-delivery
Sep 04

NOTE AI makes pull requests less central in open-source contribution

Software Engineering #software-engineering #pull-request #ai
Aug 18

NOTE Perform gradual frontend rollouts with a cookie and random number

Software Engineering #software-engineering #cookie-based-rollout #feature-flag-alternative
Aug 13

NOTE Visual Prototypes Offer Superior Product Specification Over Design Documents

Career Growth #software-engineering #ai-agents #career-growth
Aug 10

NOTE Preventing PostgreSQL database-wide recoveries using strict Linux overcommit

Systems Internals #software-engineering #crash-recovery #databases
Aug 04

NOTE Hidden Systemd Units In Base Images Can Crash Kubernetes Training Jobs

Systems Internals #software-engineering #ai-agents #aws-ecs-agent
Jul 24

NOTE Modern SaaS Value Shifts From Core Features To Essential Plumbing

Software Engineering #software-engineering #artificial-intelligence #integrations
Jul 20

NOTE Skipping Go Compiler Bounds Checks Improves Performance with Unsafe

Software Engineering #software-engineering #bounds-checking #go
Jul 15

NOTE Fragile staging and end-to-end tests hinder system scalability

Software Engineering #software-engineering #contract-testing #databases
Jul 11

NOTE Good DevOps Practices Are Essential for Reliable AI Agentic Workflows

Software Engineering #software-engineering #agentic-workflows #ai-agents
Jun 29

NOTE AI Makes Premature Optimization Effortless Leading to Over-Engineered Code

AI Systems #software-engineering #ai #caching
Jun 26

NOTE Hands-on experience with systems reveals their critical failure modes

Software Engineering #software-engineering #databases #failure-modes
Jun 22

NOTE Go's Error Handling Creates Excessive Nil And Error Checks

Software Engineering #software-engineering #defensive-programming #error-handling
Jun 13

NOTE MD5 hash collisions are easily constructed and not secure

Software Engineering #software-engineering #collision-resistance #cryptographic-hash
Jun 11

NOTE Learning One Language Deeply Gives Intuition AI Cannot Provide

Software Engineering #software-engineering #ai-code-generation #concurrency
Jun 04

NOTE Asymmetry in SYN Flood Attacks Makes SYN Cookies an Effective Countermeasure

Software Engineering #software-engineering #asymmetry #clock-synchronization
May 11

NOTE Artificial Intelligence Now Writes and Runs My API Tests

Career Growth #software-engineering #api-testing #career-growth
May 04

NOTE Adopt a Specific Order for Comprehensive Code Review

Software Engineering #software-engineering #clarity #code-duplication
Apr 30

NOTE Git Worktrees Empower Coding Agents to Run Tasks in Parallel

Software Engineering #software-engineering #ai-agents #code-isolation
Apr 20

NOTE Match Existing Codebase Conventions for Easier Collaboration

Software Engineering #software-engineering #codebase-conventions #coding-style
Apr 03

NOTE Programming Outcomes are Harder to Ignore with Agents

Software Engineering #software-engineering #agents #ai-agents
Apr 02

NOTE Premature Optimization Adds Complexity, Reduces Readability

Software Engineering #software-engineering #code-correctness #code-maintainability
Mar 13

NOTE Loop unrolling is one of those compiler tricks that feels

Systems Internals #software-engineering
Mar 05

NOTE Here's something very fundamental to how memory works in operating

Systems Internals #software-engineering
Mar 03

NOTE Software Engineering Becomes Project Management Without Innovation

Career Growth #career-growth #bureaucracy #innovation
Feb 11

NOTE Go 1.26 just dropped :) and there's some interesting stuff

Software Engineering #software-engineering
Feb 10

NOTE In C, you can define two interesting macros - likely() and unlikely

Software Engineering #software-engineering
Feb 06

NOTE Anthropic spun up 16 Opus 4

Systems Internals #software-engineering
Jan 20

NOTE I do not remember shell commands :) and I needed

Software Engineering #software-engineering
Jan 04

NOTE Software Knowledge Decay Requires Weekly Learning Investment

Career Growth #career-growth #half-life #knowledge-decay

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