"A little bit less than two years ago, building on work by Jim Hester and Kevin Ushey, Davis Vaughan completed a very impactful JavaScript file for the R community: an R grammar for the Tree-sitter parsing generator." by @rOpenSci

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/02/tree-sitter-overview/

#dataScience #rlang

Agile is dead. Let it rest in peace.

"Agile washed over our industry like a tsunami. But whenever it was questioned, a voice (perhaps emanating from a gap in the clouds?) would invariably tell us 'ah, but that is not True Agile - The Manifesto sayeth naught of Daily Standups, nor Agile Coaches'." by Lewis Campbell

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260414.html

#agile #agilemanifesto #fragile

"When I first wrote about microservice disasters, I thought we'd eventually "solve" them, with better tooling, frameworks, and operational maturity. We didn't. We just learned to live with the chaos. Distributed systems will always surprise you: timeouts, retries, and fallacies don't disappear; they just shift shape. Maybe that's the real lesson: software engineering isn't about eliminating uncertainty, but managing it gracefully." by @joaoqalves

https://world.hey.com/joaoqalves/disasters-i-ve-seen-in-a-microservices-world-part-ii-9e6826bf

#microservices

"Hegel is a universal property-based testing protocol and family of libraries, built on Hypothesis."

https://hegel.dev/

#rustlang #golang #propertyBasedTesting

"The short version is: every algorithm I learn becomes a tool I can reach for later, and over time those tools have accumulated into something like a vocabulary. I learned about textures, layering, about colors and positioning through experimentation and creating hundreds of sketches over the years, in P5.js and other media." by Veit Heller

https://blog.veitheller.de/Generative_art_over_the_years.html

#generativeArt #creativeCoding #processing #p5js

"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." by Ally Piechowski

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

#git #codeChurn #bugCluster

"WebAssembly adoption hinges on the Component Model. Luke Wagner discusses Preview 3 updates and how Wasm is evolving for edge and serverless environments."

https://thenewstack.io/webassembly-component-model-future/

#webassembly #wasm #container

Haha. Enshitification at its best. Or is that adification?

"After a team member summoned Copilot to correct a typo in a PR of mine, Copilot edited my PR description to include and ad for itself and Raycast."

https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/

#artificialintelligence #enshitification