Bookmarks tagged “tech”
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Matt’s Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped The Web
The high schooler who developed everyone’s forums and guestbooks in 1996 didn’t really think about security. But Matt’s Script Archive was more than exploits.
You can't unit test for taste
I’m building In the Long Run where runners do virtual runs on famous routes around the world. The app tallies up your Strava mileage and plots your total distance as progress against country- or continent-spanning routes. The intention is to provide long-term inspiration and moti
Why I Stopped Arguing With People
I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables. If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know exactly why. I collected counterarguments the
Fixing a kubelet Memory Leak in Kubernetes 1.36 | Blog | HeyOnCall
How I tracked down a tiny Go lifecycle bug in Kubernetes kubelet which leaked a context on every startPodSync.
I discovered a large-scale malware distribution on GitHub
This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to f
I hate compilers
You'd think that given the same bytes of input you'd get the same bytes of output. lol. lmao. No, you don't. It's complicated.
Loop Engineering
You don't really need to be good at prompting anymore. The thing to get good at is the loop that does the prompting for you. It's five building blocks plus s...
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
I Didn't Become a Developer to Review AI Slop
AI makes PRs cheap, but trust is still expensive. Why developers are stuck reviewing endless AI slop and how automated code review can fix the bottleneck.
Agentic Code Review
Coding agents are extraordinarily good now, and getting better fast. The interesting consequence is that the hard part of engineering moved from writing code...
Interviews aren’t about you (sorry) - Stack Overflow
You shipped it fast. But did you ship it right? - Stack Overflow
AI Outperforms Law Professors in Stanford Law Study | Stanford Law School
A groundbreaking study led by Stanford Law School Professor Julian Nyarko reveals that law professors overwhelmingly prefer AI-generated answers to st
If Data Centers Are So Great, Why Are They Being Built in Secret?
We Have A Transparency Problem When It Comes To Data Center Construction
Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI
As companies adopt AI tools, a lot of time is spent on thinking about AI policies from a security, compliance, or even cost-focused angle…
Using AI to write better code more slowly
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But t…
The Cognitive Shortcut Paradox
This article is part of a series on the Sens-AI Framework—practical habits for learning and coding with AI.AI gives novice developers the ability to skip
The Eternal Sloptember
I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed
