Hello, Engineers! We're excited to share that development of Dyson Sphere Program has been progressing steadily over the past few months. Every line of code and every new idea reflects our team's hard work and dedication. We hope this brings even more surprises…

Code is read more than it is written, but it is skimmed more than it is read, so we should write code that is clear at a glance.

Tests communicate a lot of information, to readers, other developers, and even our future selves. Well-written tests focus on a single unit of behaviour that can be described in a brief sentence, and we can use that sentence as the name of the test.

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LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment.

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MSPaintComputer is the start of building functional computer executed natively within Microsoft Paint. - RRTogunov/MSPaintComputer

In the two years since I've posted I want off Mr Golang's Wild Ride, it's made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every time, it elicits the ...

Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long tim…

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So my journey with these earbuds started after I saw them on this Mrwhosetheboss video about pointless tech. This device seems to be also popular on TikTok. My suspicions were confirmed, this runs android. So of course i went ahead and bought them.

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GitHub Archive logs every public commit, even the ones developers try to delete. Force pushes often cover up mistakes like leaked credentials by rewriting Git history. GitHub keeps these dangling commits, from what we can tell, forever. In the archive, they…

The supply chain bug that couldn’t be ignored — so I torched it.

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has dismissed our fraud claim against Oracle. We disagree with this decision.

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