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All of us - software engineers - use <code class="inline">git</code> every day, however most people only ever touch the most basic of commands, such as...

In a world of closed platforms, browser extensions are the rare exception that let users modify the apps that we use.

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The software industry is learning once again that complexity kills

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Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700 votes) were a little surprising to me:

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Technical excellence is more satisfying for developers than delivering customer value? This is where value streaming comes into play.

Introducing Bebop v3 - the fastest data serialization runtime in the world, and your new favorite replacement for Protocol Buffers 🚀

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Tool for helping developers keep their code bases clean and decoupled. It allows visualising a code base complexity using a 3d force-directed graph of files and the dependencies between them. - gab...

Discover the critical mistakes and lessons learned from using soft deletes in production systems. This blog post explores the complexities, data integrity issues, and alternative solutions to managing deleted data effectively.

Scope. To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. I chair the ISO C++ s…

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Six years ago, I wrote a blog post “Name a fruit that isn’t orange…” pointing out that the best AI and chatbots available at the time got this simple question wrong. Though there was some debate on r/programming about whether this was just “a problem with…

Salt Labs researchers identified vulnerabilities in the ChatGPT ecosystem that could have granted access to accounts of users and sensitive data.

I decided to make a time zone converter. It had seemed like an easy project, but I was horribly mistaken