Summarizes key insights from three engineering management books, focusing on psychological safety, effective vs. efficient work, and managing hypergrowth.
A developer's story about using git-bisect to diagnose a performance regression and the importance of proactive performance testing in software development.
An analysis of DuckLake, a new open table format and catalog specification for data engineering, comparing it to existing solutions like Iceberg and Delta Lake.
Explores best practices for modeling state in SwiftUI apps, emphasizing value types and avoiding common pitfalls like singletons.
Explains why iterating over a concrete List<T> in C# is faster than iterating over an IList<T> interface, covering boxing and virtual method overhead.
A developer's build log for PocketCal, an open-source web app for creating and sharing calendar date groups via URL, created with GitHub Copilot.
Explores the concept of software benchmarks as falsifiable hypotheses for predicting real-world system performance, not just speed tests.
A technical guide on building a conversational AI knowledge base using RAG pipelines and Cloudflare's AutoRAG to query years of curated cloud security content.
Introducing Demark, a Swift package for converting HTML to Markdown using JavaScript libraries within WKWebView, with two engines for speed or accuracy.
A technical guide on setting up a local Matrix server using Docker and SQLite for client development.
A developer shares his 'vibe coding' workflow, building a macOS menu bar app to monitor AI tool costs live with AI assistance.
A guide to best practices for building reliable, user-friendly, and maintainable tools using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
A tech founder shares his journey through burnout after selling his company and how rediscovering his passion for building led him back to software development, inspired by AI.
A developer details the journey of building the Puzzmo iOS app, discussing the choice between React Native and native Swift development for a game platform.
AI will widen educational gaps by default, making great students extraordinary and struggling students worse, unless systems are designed to close them.
A developer announces a shift in blog focus from covering Swift/SwiftUI news to sharing personal project learnings, failures, and authentic development experiences.
Introducing FlipKit, a new open-source SwiftUI library for creating animated flip views on Apple platforms.
Explains the concept of flattening a multidimensional array into a 1D array, with JavaScript examples and a real-world use case.
Explains React Server Components (RSC) by comparing them to the 'code as data' concept of quoting in LISP programming.
A tutorial on setting up a modern React frontend with Vite and a Flask backend, updated for 2025 development practices.
