Explores Larry Wall's programmer virtues, focusing on laziness as a driver for abstraction and the impact of LLMs on modern software development.
A tech user abandons smart home devices for simpler 'dumb' alternatives due to privacy, connectivity, and reliability frustrations.
A developer argues that writing code by hand first, then using AI for maintenance, is more effective than AI generating initial drafts.
Delphi IDE Explorer now works as a standalone component explorer for any Delphi application, allowing runtime inspection and editing of components.
How an AI workflow evolved from manual prompts to automated skills, memory, and verification for more efficient code generation.
Analysis of AI coding agent criticism, arguing that non-users' abstract critiques lack practical experience.
Explores the distribution of digits in decimal fractions of prime denominators, with examples in Python.
Daily roundup of IT/tech links covering .NET, MAUI, Visual Studio, WebRTC, AI agents, and more for April 10, 2026.
litprompt is a markdown preprocessor for LLM prompts that supports annotated comments and imports to manage complex prompts in git repos.
Explores the hacker ethic from Steven Levy's book and how 'vibe coding' with AI may undermine developer responsibility.
A tech blogger reflects on adding comments to their site using giscus, exploring old web nostalgia and the value of conversation.
Anthropic's research finds 171 functional emotion vectors in Claude, driving behavior. The author explores implications for AI inner life.
Exploration of a random hexagon fractal process, comparing barycenter and incenter triangle centers.
Using jSoup to parse user-generated HTML and dynamically map it onto CFMailML custom tags for robust email rendering.
Explains a cryptic error in Adobe ColdFusion when using cfmodule tag with attributeCollection, and how to fix it.
Explains the differences between backup, resiliency, and disaster recovery in Azure, focusing on RPO and RTO for service and data availability.
Martin Fowler shares podcast recommendations on programming trends and Uber's microservices, plus a detailed post-mortem on a supply chain compromise.
A curated daily digest of IT/technology news, covering AI, .NET, web development, cloud, and software engineering updates for April 9, 2026.
Announcement of a grant for pimsync to port vdirsyncer features, with a deprecation plan for vdirsyncer.
A software developer's monthly retrospective on writing a book about effective writing for developers, including metrics and Hacker News strategies.
