I waste a lot of time sweating small details of code. Stuff that has absolutely zero impact on anything quantifiable. It took me a long time to stop feeling bad about this. I’m not talking about tu…
The irrational effectiveness of the Pi harness
A month of coding with Pi, its small agent loop, and the skills and extensions I've added to it.
esoteric.codes
esolangs, esoplatforms, esosystems, and all that break from the norms of computing
Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve - Trisha Gee
This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve. "Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. ... Read more
What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This
The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.
What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This
The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.
If coding is solved, what now?: Measuring the sloppiness of code | EARENDIL
Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.
A quote from Andrew Quinn
One could say in the first quarter-century of my life, that while I was always fascinated by programming, I could never overcome the guilt of not really knowing whether the …
Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file
512,000 lines of code that competitors and hobbyists will be studying for weeks.
The Irrational Decision
How the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality—and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment
In defense of not reading the code | Ben Shoemaker
Last week, I wrote an article whose purpose was to discuss where I saw AI-assisted coding going. That's not what generated 200 comments worth of passionate...
Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.
“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.
Tinkered Thinking
Daily, snackable writings to spur changes in thinking.Building a blueprint for a better brain by tinkering with the code.
Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
A sufficiently detailed spec is code begins with this lovely comic: