Programming Language Theory (PLT) is one of my favourite areas of computer science yet I feel it's one of the most misunderstood by outsiders.

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The safest and most reliable way to deal with feature flags is to hardcode them

I have previously blogged about the relatively new trend of AI slop in vulnerability reports submitted to curl and how it hurts and exhausts us. This trend does not seem to slow down. On the contrary, it seems that we have recently not only received more…

It started with a simple thought: four bytes in a hash table bucket look just like an integer. Luckily, this one idea led to a deep dive into bit-twiddling and a 2x performance boost.

New research shows developers think AI makes them 20% faster but are actually 19% slower. Vibe coding is creating unemployable pseudo-developers who can't debug or maintain code.

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A new study raises serious questions about how perceptions of AI assisted productivity translate into results.

Casey Muratori's talk at BSC 2025.

Casey's links:
- https://ComputerEnhance.com/
- https://x.com/cmuratori/

BSC links:
- https://BetterSoftwareConference.com/
- https://x.com/BetterSoftwareC

Chapters:
0:00:00 Talk
1:50:11 Q&A

Go 1.24's Swiss Tables cut our map memory usage by up to 70% in high-traffic workloads. Here's how we profiled the savings and improved performance.

“Humanity has prevailed (for now!),” writes winner after 10-hour coding marathon against OpenAI.

The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution

I've built 12+ AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here's why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in production.

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I don’t want to talk about LLMs anymore.

Corporate America just issued its latest ultimatum: use AI or update your LinkedIn

Working harder DOES get you there faster — at a cost.

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Select Topic Area Product Feedback Body Hi everyone, I’d like to start a conversation about GitHub’s recent treatment of the Command Palette. As many of you know, it’s one of GitHub’s best features...