I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code
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Prahlad Yeri - Freelance Programmer and Writer
I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code
Today morning, I came across this reddit post titled Completely losing interest in the career due to AI and AI-pilled people. They describe how in a span of just two months, their corporate job went from
Reverse Engineering iWork (So You Don't Have To)
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Reverse Engineering iWork
So you don't have to.
Why Most Apps Should Start as Monoliths
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Why Most Apps Should Start as Monoliths – Randy Shoup Explains
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#SystemDesign #StartupTech #DevTalks
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#Microservices #SoftwareEngineering #TechLeadership
#SystemDesign #StartupTech #DevTalks
Boost your coding skills by joining Scrimba: https://scrimba.com?via=DevToolsMadeSimple
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How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview'
https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost-got-hacked-by-a-job-interview
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David Dodda
How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview'
I was 30 seconds away from running malware, Here's how a sophisticated scam operation almost got me, and why every developer needs to read this.
More code ≠ better code: Claude Haiku 4.5 wrote 62% more code but scored 16% lower (WebSocket refactoring analysis)
https://codelens.ai/blog/claude-haiku-vs-sonnet-overengineering
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Claude Haiku 4.5 Wrote 62% More Code But Scored 16% Lower Than Sonnet 4.5
More code ≠ Better code. Testing reveals the over-engineering problem.
Bypassing Amazon's Kindle Web DRM Because Their App Sucked
https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/
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Cats with power tools
How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked
As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
API design principle: Don't tempt people to divide by zero
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251013-00/?p=111677
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API design principle: Don’t tempt people to divide by zero
Remove it from the equation.
How Casey Muratori conducts programming interviews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ2V5VtwrCw&t=1732s
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What Big Tech Still Gets WRONG about Great Programmers | Casey Muratori
🎉 Big Announcement: Linear is now the presenting sponsor of A Life Engineered!
We're thrilled to partner with Linear for the entire next year. Linear is the purpose-built tool for planning and building products - trusted by companies like OpenAI, Cursor…
We're thrilled to partner with Linear for the entire next year. Linear is the purpose-built tool for planning and building products - trusted by companies like OpenAI, Cursor…
This is a detailed breakdown of a FinTech project from my consulting career.
https://lukasniessen.medium.com/this-is-a-detailed-breakdown-of-a-fintech-project-from-my-consulting-career-9ec61603709c
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Event Sourcing, CQRS and Micro Services: Real FinTech Example from my Consulting Career
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What Bill Gates’ first commercial code (Altair BASIC) looks like under the hood
https://maizure.org/projects/decoded-altair-basic/index.html
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From the programming community on Reddit: What Bill Gates’ first commercial code (Altair BASIC) looks like under the hood
Posted by Outsourcing_Problems - 108 votes and 7 comments
Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper in abstraction
https://daymare.net/blogs/everbody-so-creative/
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From the programming community on Reddit: Why every Rust crate feels like a research paper in abstraction
Explore this post and more from the programming community
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse
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The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour Nintendo 64 ROM reverse-engineering project reached 100% decompilation
https://github.com/Gillou68310/DukeNukemZeroHour
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GitHub
GitHub - Gillou68310/DukeNukemZeroHour: A decompilation of Duke Nukem Zero Hour
A decompilation of Duke Nukem Zero Hour. Contribute to Gillou68310/DukeNukemZeroHour development by creating an account on GitHub.
Bug in Rust coreutils rewrite breaks automatic updates in Ubuntu 25.10
https://lwn.net/Articles/1043103/
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Date bug affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates
The Ubuntu Project has announced that a bug in the Rust-based uutils version of the date comman [...]
Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
https://evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wrote-that-i-use-all-the-time/
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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
I've written a number of little scripts over the years, many of which I use every day. Here's a little collection.
Developers Spend Just 1% of Coding Time Using VS Code's Debugger (11,805 Sessions Analyzed)
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Developers Spend Just 1% of Coding Time Using VS Code's Debugger
Analysis of 11,805 coding sessions from 68 developers over 3 months: only 1.4% of time spent using VS Code's debugger.
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree
https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
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F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When co...
Programming With Less Than Nothing
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Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" compiler backdoor - Now with the actual source code (2023)
https://micahkepe.com/blog/thompson-trojan-horse/
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Micah's Secret Blog
That Time Ken Thompson Wrote a Backdoor into the C Compiler
When Ken Thompson won the Turing Award jointly with Dennis Ritchie for their
work in UNIX, he was expected like other Turing winners to write a paper that
would be published in the ACM Computer Journal. What he ended up submitting was
a paper about "the cutest…
work in UNIX, he was expected like other Turing winners to write a paper that
would be published in the ACM Computer Journal. What he ended up submitting was
a paper about "the cutest…