Guide to configuring and using agentic coding tools like Codex and Claude in Xcode 26.3, including setup and integration tips.
A personal tribute to statistician John Fox, recalling his mentorship and impact on the R community through tools like Rcmdr and car.
A personal tribute to Fritz Leisch, creator of Sweave, reflecting on his impact on reproducible research and the R ecosystem.
A research paper analyzes LLM performance on SQL generation tasks using different structured data formats and large schemas, comparing frontier and open-source models.
Research paper analyzes LLM performance on large SQL schemas, comparing 11 models across 4 data formats for structured context engineering in agentic systems.
Martin Fowler reflects on the future of software development with AI, discussing cognitive debt, the role of LLMs, and how they might change programming.
A study finds AI tools increase cognitive load and work intensity, leading to potential burnout despite productivity gains.
A study finds AI tools increase cognitive load and work intensity, leading to potential burnout, despite feeling more productive.
Explores the concept of 'skills' in agentic AI, comparing them to 'magic numbers' in programming and discussing their inconsistent, opaque nature.
A compiler engineer shares practical tips for generating C code, focusing on static inline functions and avoiding implicit integer conversions.
Explores using lenses in Haskell to simplify test assertions for nested data structures, improving test readability and precision.
A developer walks through implementing a new JVM analysis feature for the JStall tool, using GitHub Copilot and sharing the development process.
A daily link roundup covering .NET, AI, web development, Windows tools, and software engineering news and tutorials.
Explores advanced mapping techniques in EF Core 10, focusing on JSON column support and modern entity-value type relationships.
Summary of January 2026 Microsoft Defender updates, focusing on new AI agents in Security Copilot and enhanced threat hunting capabilities.
A guide for R package maintainers on using a custom JavaScript tool to parse and organize lengthy CRAN reverse dependency check logs into manageable tabs.
Author Yihui Xie explains his decision to stop creating hex stickers for R packages, favoring minimal ASCII art instead to reduce visual clutter and package size.
Explores the future of programming languages designed for AI agents, discussing why new languages will emerge and what features they should prioritize.
Compares iterative vs. Binet's formula for computing large Fibonacci numbers in Python, analyzing performance and precision.
Explores space-time tradeoffs using Fibonacci numbers, comparing transmitting large numbers versus their indices and computational verification.
