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July 2025

17-07-2025
Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories | drew's dev blog

Artisanal Handcrafted Git Repositories | drew's dev blog

Source: drew.silcock.dev

How to lovingly handcraft your own git repositories

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Linked is a madman’s tour of git’s persistent data structures. Yes, crazy, but pretty amazing. They use not-simple shall commands to create all the bits by hand. If you follow along you will know more than any of your friends how git work#!

Tags: git learn data-structure internals
16-07-2025
What can agents actually do?

What can agents actually do?

Source: lethain.com

There’s a lot of excitement about what AI (specifically the latest wave of LLM-anchored AI) can do, and how AI-first companies are different from the prior generations of companies. There are a lot of important and real opportunities at hand, but I find that many of these conversations occur at such an abstract altitude that they border on meaningless. Sort of like saying that your company could be much better if you merely adopted more software. That’s certainly true, but it’s not a particularly helpful claim.

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Linked is a really good explanation of LLM agents, what they do, how they work more or less, and what they COULD do.

Tags: ai llm generative-ai agents ai-agents
14-07-2025
Building a Dumber Team

Building a Dumber Team

Source: dandreamsofcoding.com

Having kids is weird. Here are these human beings, with their own interests, likes and dislikes, and absolutely no knowledge. I mean yes, over time they build up experiences, but they start out wit…

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One more in the series of articles that either support or challenge the idea that ai will make junior programmers obsolete, will kill computer science as a discipline, will unleash amazing productivity. Or not.

Tags: ai chatgpt coding learning vibe-coding claude-code
10-07-2025
BREAKING NEWS: AI coding may not be helping as much as you think

BREAKING NEWS: AI coding may not be helping as much as you think

Source: open.substack.com

Coding has been the strongest use case. But a new study from METR just dropped.

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Linked is just one interesting data point about coding with ai. It’s interesting because it is counterintuitive to what everyone thinks. But of course this has to be replicated. I have to say that it is not inconsistent with my own personal experience.

Tags: coding programming code AI coding
09-07-2025
CTOs Reveal How AI Changed Software Developer Hiring in 2025

CTOs Reveal How AI Changed Software Developer Hiring in 2025

Source: finalroundai.com

We asked 12 CTOs and CEOs what skill they now prioritize when hiring developers because of AI. Their answers validate what experienced developers suspected all along.

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Linked is an article that is kind of fluffy but it contains opinions that I agree with, about the impact of ai on developers.

Tags: developer ai software-engineering
07-07-2025
Async Queue – One of My Favorite Programming Interviews (Can AI Break It?)

Async Queue – One of My Favorite Programming Interviews (Can AI Break It?)

Source: davidgomes.com

For the past 7+ years, I've been conducting a programming interview that has been a true personal favorite of mine. It was passed down to me from good friends (Jeremy Kaplan and Carl Sverre, and it was the latter whom I believe invented it). This interview has probably been given

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Linked is an article with more of what’s been fascinating me lately, how and when ai can accelerate coding.

Tags: programming coding software-engineering interview ai artificial-intelligence
05-07-2025
How I use Claude Code | Christian B. B. Houmann

How I use Claude Code | Christian B. B. Houmann

Source: bagerbach.com

I run multiple Claude Code instances daily for everything from throwaway scripts to production systems. This guide covers the patterns, commands, and workflow optimizations I've developed - including how to use CC effectively with existing codebases, manage parallel agents, and avoid common pitfalls.

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Linked is a good article about using Claude code in sophisticated ways. I am a big big fan of Claude code.

Tags: software-engineering programming claude-code how-to
04-07-2025
Midnight Commander

Midnight Commander

Source: midnight-commander.org

Midnight Commander Development Center

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I always loved Norton Commander back in the old days before guis! I have to try this on my Ubuntu system, or other character based environments.

Tags: code tool programming cli shell
03-07-2025
Introducing the first alpha of Turso: The next evolution of SQLite

Introducing the first alpha of Turso: The next evolution of SQLite

Source: turso.tech

We’re launching the first alpha of Turso. A Rust-based, cloud-native rewrite of SQLite with modern concurrency, async APIs, and unmatched reliability powered by advanced testing and open-source collaboration.

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Linked is a new database - they come every day now don’t they? This ones claim to fame is that it’s an open source rewrite of SQLite allowing asynchronous API calls and concurrent access. It seems to follow the SQLite API exactly. It is a white box rewrite by a different team.

Tags: rust developer-tools sqlite database Concurrency Open-Source

June 2025

28-06-2025
Here are the best electric bikes you can buy at every price level in June 2025

Here are the best electric bikes you can buy at every price level in June 2025

Source: electrek.co

The best electric bikes at any price level? We've tested them all, and here are the best e-bikes for any budget and every type of rider.

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Linked is one more rundown of e-bikes. I have become a big fan of mine, which is a Velotric. They are super lightweight (for an ebike) and are mentioned positively in this article!

Tags: ebike shopping reviews guide
28-06-2025
Arduino/ROS2 Self-Driving Robot 120mm Build Pack

Arduino/ROS2 Self-Driving Robot 120mm Build Pack

Source: makerspet.com

Learn professional robotics basics hands-on by building a little Arduino and ROS2 -compatible robot. Maker's Pet Mini robot consists of a 120mm round base, two N20 motors (differential drive), a 360° scanning 2D LiDAR distance sensor, a motor driver board and an ESP32 development board. The Mini robot comes with step-by-step "from-scratch" assembly, setup, bring-up, operation instruction videos

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Linked is a very nice beginner ROS2 robot. Amazingly inexpensive. 1/4 the price of a turtlebot. I am ordering one to see how it is!

Tags: robotics ros ros2 robot

April 2025

28-04-2025
Cool Tools Omnilist

Cool Tools Omnilist

Source: cooltools.pages.dev

Best stuff as recommended by cool tools mailing lists

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Linked is just a handy list of fun unique doodads.

Tags: tools cool-tools recommendations list
28-04-2025
Refactoring Gone Wild: Avoiding code smells and cleaning up the mess - iO tech_hub

Refactoring Gone Wild: Avoiding code smells and cleaning up the mess - iO tech_hub

Source: techhub.iodigital.com

Identifying and avoiding bad coding practices, and refactoring them into clean, elegant, self-explanatory code

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Linked is one of the best refactoring “recipe” books I’ve seen. I recognize single one of the patterns that are described! I’ve seen them and I’ve done them. It should be a checklist for beginning devs.

Tags: clean-code programming refactoring how-to better-programming software-engineering