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You can make your software developer life suck a bit less by using task runners to run common coding tasks consistently across multiple repositories

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...

Writers that write badly instead of plan extremely well are… better writers?

Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?...

Why the productivity gains from AI are still small.

Field notes on shipping fast, privacy-first, evergreen web products.

Compromise is neither good nor bad, it’s something we do every day. It’s decision making. Prioritizing. It’s finding the right balance between two competing ...

In this essay, Carson Gross thinks about the best way for the university to prepare students in the AI era.

Eight months ago I was producing roughly 90% human written code and 10% AI written code. This has switched surprisingly rapidly and now my code is probably 90%...

From guarding our professional expertise to rethinking processes, some advice for using LLMs effectively and responsibly.

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

What I once thought about programming productivity was wrong

The cloud made software convenient, then quietly took your speed and your privacy with it. Here's why the best apps are moving back onto your machine.

Calibrate your enthusiasm

Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.

AI has dramatically accelerated the path to a first working version. It has not shortened the distance between a first working version and something...

The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They're not the same. Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem; a perfect solution exists once the...

And why does the brain use creatine anyway?

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.