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Every time we've made it easier to write software, we've ended up writing exponentially more of it. History suggests we won't do less work - we'll discover w...

How to be exceptional at anythingBeing exceptional is less about rare talent and more about the choices you make every day. It’s a set of habits that quietly...

We have to be very careful about what we ask AI to help us with

Lukewarm takes from an amateur pizzaiolo and software engineer.

Construire son environnement de travail avec des logiciels libres

I've been a computer programmer all-told for 43 years. That's more than half the entire history of electronic programmable computers. In that time, I've seen a...

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A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

I recently attended a presentation by people from Anthropic at work about their large language models. One undercurrent in the presentation was that thinking is...

Privacy is when they promise to protect your data. Anonymity is when they never had your data to begin with.

Salut à toi, lectrice, lecteur ! Je m’appelle Marine, et j’ai un problème : j’ai bien du mal à répartir mon temps entre toutes les activités qui m’intéressent....

The other day I made an advice thread based on Jacobian’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in.  •   …

A measured-yet-opinionated plea to try HTMX. Skip the React complexity, skip the raw HTML limitations. There's a third option.