Fragments Nov 19
Martin Fowler discusses the latest Thoughtworks Technology Radar, AI's impact on programming, and his recent tech talks in Europe.
Martin Fowler discusses the latest Thoughtworks Technology Radar, AI's impact on programming, and his recent tech talks in Europe.
Analysis of a major Cloudflare outage caused by a database permissions change and software panic, quoting CEO Matthew Prince.
New release of the llm-gemini plugin adds support for nested Pydantic schemas, YouTube URL attachments, and the latest Gemini 3 Pro model.
MacWhisper's new Automatic Speaker Recognition feature, powered by NVIDIA Parakeet, accurately identifies speakers in audio transcripts.
Google Antigravity is a new AI-powered IDE that integrates with Gemini models for agentic coding, featuring browser testing and automated documentation.
Ethan Mollick reflects on AI's rapid evolution from chatbots to digital coworkers, highlighting the changing role of human oversight.
A hands-on review of Google's new Gemini 3 Pro AI model, covering its features, benchmarks, pricing, and testing its multimodal capabilities.
A guide on using AG-UI and .NET Aspire to expose Agent Framework AI agents to the web, enabling multi-client, AI-powered applications.
Martin Fowler's foreword for 'Frictionless', a book on improving software developer productivity by focusing on feedback loops, flow state, and cognitive load.
A guide to building a connector-based RAG system that fetches live data from Confluence using its REST API and Java, avoiding stale embeddings.
How the Aspire team used GitHub Copilot's Planning mode to automate migrating hundreds of documentation articles from Microsoft Learn to a new Astro/Starlight site.
How to fix the 'This video format is not supported' error on YouTube TV by enabling the Widevine DRM setting in your browser.
Discusses the future of small open source libraries in the age of LLMs, questioning their relevance when AI can generate specific code.
Generating dynamic Open Graph images for poems using ColdFusion and Java, adapting text to landscape format for social media previews.
Argues that generic Tooltip components in design systems are flawed and proposes better, more accessible alternatives for web development.
An analysis of the tedious process of adding a VLAN in OPNsense, requiring 26 clicks and 6 screens, with suggestions for UI improvements.
Explores Andrej Karpathy's concept of Software 2.0, where AI writes programs through objectives and gradient descent, focusing on task verifiability.
Explains how hardware performance depends on software selection and tuning, using a three-stage rocket analogy for tech leaders.
Release of llm-anthropic plugin 0.22 with support for Claude's structured outputs and web search tool integration.
A guide to parakeet-mlx, a project porting NVIDIA's Parakeet ASR model to Apple's MLX framework for fast, local audio transcription.