Mastodawn

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

Han, Not Solo

Nelson da Costa 3d ago

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/

The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code

Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.

Nelson da Costa 5d ago

Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀6d ago

Nelson da Costa Apr 9

https://www.subbu.org/articles/2026/two-mountains/

Two Mountains

I know a software developer, call her A. B is the manager of another team, handling a critical project with plenty of tasks to be done, and dealing with escalations from other teams. A offered to …

Writing is clarifying

Nelson da Costa Apr 9

https://jessitron.com/2026/04/06/adding-correctness-conditions-to-code-changes/

Adding Correctness Conditions to Code Changes

Today I looked at the first PR on our new project repo. It added a new run script, but the README didn’t mention it. The proposed change was incomplete, because the documentation was out of sync. D…

Jessitron

Nelson da Costa Apr 8

Get in the box: Illustrated permissions guide to make Claude chill: https://testdouble.com/insights/get-in-the-box-illustrated-permissions-guide-to-make-claude-chill

Good principles that can be applied to other agents too, just ask one to read it and suggest config updates to your env.

Get in the box: Illustrated permissions guide to make Claude chill

Stop spamming the permission button. Learn how to set up Claude Code’s sandbox so your AI agent works freely and securely without constant interruptions.

Nelson da Costa Mar 30

https://medium.com/@tpierrain/your-feature-is-gaining-traction-i-hope-youve-put-a-speed-limiter-on-it-b1cb0e396982

Your feature is gaining traction? I hope you’ve put a speed limiter on it…

In a previous article, I proposed replacing the technical debt metaphor with a road network analogy: our code is a network of roads that we…

Medium

Nelson da Costa Mar 29

Lady Laura

Mar 29

#Meme #Humour

Nelson da Costa Mar 23

Bon Pote Mar 23

Les élections municipales sont finies, les médias peuvent donc enfin parler de :

- réchauffement climatique
- effondrement de la biodiversité
- qualité de l'air
- services publics
- sortir du tout bagnole en France
- sortir des énergies fossiles et arrêter de dépendre de Trump, Poutine etc.

les VRAIES priorités du pays.

Nelson da Costa Mar 23

Red-Green-Refactor your context: https://testdouble.com/insights/red-green-refactor-your-context

Red-Green-Refactor your context

AI coding sessions generate knowledge that disappears when the session ends. A TDD-inspired loop captures what you learned and routes it where your team will find it.