Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex: Advancing Agentic Coding

GPT-5.3-Codex expands capabilities across professional computer tasks, enhancing coding performance, reasoning, and speed, enabling complex task execution and interactive collaboration.

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ALL tests are green today. ALL. the day's off to a good start :) #software #dev #softwaredev

i convinced my friend to add rss to his new blog just so i could share it with you nerds lol

https://lrosdobutko1.github.io/dont-PANIC/2026/01/29/initial-commit.html

#SoftwareDev #GameDev #blog #FreshMeat

A new developer blog?

It’s more likely than you think … My name is Lawrence. I’m a recent college graduate with a fancy diploma, and allegedly a specialization in software development. It was either that, or hog tie myself with an ethernet cable and hide in a closet, because after several courses involving networking, I still don’t understand what an SSL socket is. My intention, going forward, is to catalog my journey of learning to be a better software developer, and to document the many painful mistakes I will make as I go. Hopefully you, the reader, will fi[…]

Don’t PANIC

In Ruby all methods are called on objects, including "special" ones like "puts".

This: puts "Hello, world!"
Is equivalent to: self.puts("Hello, world!")

#ruby #dev #softwareEngineering #softwareDev

One of the dangers with software development is it attracts people that are a bit focused/obsessive into an environment where their every bit of work is on view, reviewed and increasingly, performance metrics applied . This can really stick a crowbar into slightest crack of self doubt or anxiety and crack it open over time, even if they are good productive developers. We are often our own worst enemy.

#coding #softwaredev

I'm a software developer with 40 years' professional experience, lucky enough to be considering early retirement. I love writing code and don't want to stop. I'm keen to give something back and contribute to one or more open source projects.

The questions are, to what shall I contribute, and how do I get started?

My skills are mainly C++, having spent much of the past decade programmatically dismantling and reassembling Microsoft Office files. I'm quite happy to learn Rust or Go, but don't really like webby front-endy ux stuff.

Any suggestions for a worthy project to which I could contribute? Please boost if you can.

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareDev #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Had my exit interview with the new (started 4 days ago) CTO yesterday. Things that stood out:

1. He was surprised to learn that lines of test code should outnumber lines of actual code.
2. He suggested that if he defines a spec and gives that to a code generator, then it would be useless to have the same code generator generate all these unit tests.
3. He couldn’t understand why the number of tests would explode if he intended to thoroughly test the application at the highest level only, ie the output of his code generator.
4. Concepts he looked up during our chat: Testing Pyramid, DDD, Clean Architecture.
5. He studiously avoided saying AI, talking only about a mythical code generator that would unerringly translate his presumably complete spec to code.

Anyway, is it time yet to start a consultancy to help companies fix the problems caused by the parrot?

#AI #softwaredev

Làm thế nào ta tích lũy nợ kỹ thuật nhanh hơn trong 6 tháng so với hệ thống 10 năm? Bài viết phân tích thực trạng và bài học từ /u/Annual-Ad-731, cảnh báo về nguy cơ tích lũy công nợ kỹ thuật trong phát triển phần mềm. #technicaldebt #nợkỹthuật #pháttriểnphần mềm #softwaredev

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qqhcic/how_we_created_more_tech_debt_in_6_months_than_in/

Visual Studio Code CMake Tools 1.22: Target bookmarks and better CTest output - C++ Team Blog

We’re excited to announce the latest 1.22 release of the CMake Tools extension for Visual Studio Code. This update brings a host of new additions, including project outline updates for filtering and bookmarking CMake targets in large CMake projects and expanded CTest support to customize this output. To view the full list of updates with […]

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