Explores how autonomous AI agents (autoresearch) can optimize small language models by running hundreds of experiments overnight, improving performance without human intervention.
Introducing Knuckledragger, a Python tool for refinement modeling and verification of RISC-V assembly code using symbolic execution.
A developer reflects on how AI coding assistants like Claude have replaced deep 'flow state' programming with fragmented, high-throughput 'air traffic control' work.
A guide to creating shell aliases for quickly checking outdated packages on Arch Linux, Debian/Ubuntu, and macOS.
A designer critiques the commercialization of AI and its ethical risks, especially regarding military applications.
A daily tech reading list covering SQL's resurgence, AI agent productivity, CI/CD at scale, Go for backend, and more industry insights.
A guide for engineering leaders on preparing their teams and organizations for the challenges and opportunities of AI adoption in software development.
A 30-day plan for Azure administrators to clean up, reset, and improve governance in a messy Azure environment using native tools.
Learn how to test fatalError and preconditionFailure in Swift using Swift Testing's exit tests, which run code in a child process.
Explains a trigonometric composition table and provides Python code to verify the identities.
Critique of the 'three pillars' observability model, arguing it destroys data context and relationships, making AI and engineering insights harder.
A review of the iPhone 17e, focusing on its 'speed bump' hardware updates and the significant addition of MagSafe compared to its predecessor.
Explains why context and relationships in observability data are crucial, arguing the three pillars model destroys data value.
A technical case study on diagnosing and troubleshooting a persistent RDP connection issue to an Azure VM, exploring both platform and guest OS causes.
Introducing Botello, an open-source .NET library that captures MSBuild logs as OpenTelemetry traces for AI analysis and observability.
A developer shares lessons learned from building a custom, high-performance static site generator, covering parsing, performance, and features.
New PostgreSQL 18 and SQLite features allow developers to copy database statistics to replicate production query plans in dev environments.
New PostgreSQL 18 and SQLite features allow developers to copy database statistics to test production query plans without moving large datasets.
Guide to configuring antivirus exclusions for optimal BizTalk Server performance, based on Microsoft best practices.
A daily roundup of tech links covering TypeScript 6.0 RC, VS Code extensions, .NET patterns, AI coding tools, WebGPU, and Windows Insider builds.
