.Net devs argue with Copilot in a PR...
Folk on the .Net team having an argument with Copilot is the most funny thing to me at the moment.
Paged Out!
I miss good geeky programming magazines. This looks like just the thing. Also it's free online, has RSS, has PDFs, etc; and you can buy a printed copy if you wish. Nice!
AI will write your next compiler!
The blog post that explains the background of the horrific Ocaml AI-written PR. Honestly... this feels like some post hoc rationalisation cope rather than a coming clean of an honest attempt to test something out.
I'm not convinced at all.
AI World Clocks
Pretty funny site that gives an indication at how good various LLMs are at understanding a request to write some code.
A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System
I've owned a copy of Lions' for a long time; perhaps 25 years at the time of writing. I'm pretty sure it was one of the firts books I ordered from this wee book-selling website called Amazon, back in 1999.
Here's an online version.
Everything I know about good API design
Interesting article to consider when thinking about what is and isn't a good API design.
Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews | Hacker News
Interesting article relating to ideas on how to conduct a good code review. I've chosen to link to the Hacker News thread where I first found it, rather than the blog post itself, because this is one of those HN threads where the comments are a worthwhile read too.
Conventional Commits
I've seen this style of commit on and off for a while now. I'm not a huge fan, but I get the idea. What I hadn't realised is that there was a "standard" behind this and even some documentation for it.
Electrobun | Electrobun
A framework for building desktop applications in TypeScript, it seems. I don't think I've quite been grabbed by TypeScript yet, but this could push me over the edge into trying to properly get to grips with it as I can think of some desktop applications that I'd like to build.
TIL: Python's splitlines does a lot more than just newlines
str.splitlines is obvious in what it does, so I don't think I've ever looked at what it actually does. It doesn't do quite what I originally thought it did.
SLip - a Lisp system in JavaScript, for browsers
A Lisp for the browser that is starting to look a lot like a Common Lisp; and on top of which an Emacs is being built, FOR THE BROWSER!
Open Source Insights
Handy site, backed by Google, that lets you dive into packages from different ecosystems and see what they depend on and what depends on them, etc.
Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses
Good article covering all the exceptions to the "an address is simple" rule.
I just started out as a product manager, do I need programming knowledge? : r/ProductManagement
I've recently been thinking more and more about what sort of technical awareness a product manager should have; r/ProductManagemtn seemed like a good place to go read up...
The Koka Programming Language
Interesting-looking functional programming language.
stelvio.dev: AWS for Python devs - made simple
A Python library that also builds out your deployment too.
The whole IAC thing bothers me because people say "code" but it's almost never actually code. This looks like it might end up actually putting the code in IAC.
theoldreader/api: The Old Reader API
The API for TheOldReader.
Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved feature - Tyler Cipriani
You can add notes to commits in git. It's almost never spoken about.
Red & blue functions are actually a good thing
A rebuttal of sorts for the red/blue language post.
What Color is Your Function? – journal.stuffwithstuff.com
An amusing take on async/await being sprinkled all over a language. While this is aimed more at the JavaScript crowd, I think the Python folk can relate too.
There are some good points here, and some good descriptions of the sort of frustration that can be felt. At the same time there are also some not-quite-sensible aspects to it as well.
Still a fun read.
the Fennel programming language
Because I need another Lisp in my life, of course...
Every UUID
Like it says on the tin.... every UUID.
Why I'm declining your AI generated MR - Stuart Spence Blog
I've been thinking recently about AI/LLM-created PRs on GitHub. I've only received a couple, and they've not been great. This has got me wondering if I should entertain them at all from both a software development point of view, and also an ethical point of view.
This blog post is an interesting read for someone else's take on things.
Using Common Lisp from inside the Browser
Details about a method of running Common Lisp code in the browser.
GNU Artanis - A fast web application framework for Scheme
Just what it says in the title: a web framework in Scheme.
Email is Easy
For decades now I've been annoyed by systems that validate email addresses, badly. This is useful to help illustrate how people often get the idea of a "valid" email address wrong.
Repomix
While the tool is aimed at repos, more generally a tool for taking a ton of different files and turning them into a single source that can be thrown at some sort of learning system so you can ask questions of it.
Why I prefer human-readable file formats
In praise of human-readable (and hopefully writable too) file formats.
Cucumber lets you write automated tests in plain language | Hacker News
Hacker news does Cucumber. Hot takes.
React Still Feels Insane And No One Is Talking About It
React has never felt quite right to me, but I've never been able to put my finger on why. This article does a good job of gettinng a similar feel to what I feel.