Mastodawn

Dual-loop BDD is the new Red-green TDD https://justin.searls.co/posts/dual-loop-bdd-is-the-new-red-green-tdd/

Dual-loop BDD is the new Red-green TDD

This one goes out to all the testing neophytes who only recently realized that it's useful to have an automated means of verifying their code does what it…

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Roman Busygin Feb 24

Laurent Sansonetti Feb 23

Great post on Anthropic's C compiler by an actual compiler expert https://www.modular.com/blog/the-claude-c-compiler-what-it-reveals-about-the-future-of-software

Modular: The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software

Compilers occupy a special place in computer science. They're a canonical course in computer science education. Building one is a rite of passage. It forces you to confront how software actually works, by examining languages, abstractions, hardware, and the boundary between human intent and machine execution.

Roman Busygin Feb 22

Oskar Feb 22

Highly recommend this post. It perfectly captures the internal conflicts and mindset shift I’ve gone through over the last 2 years of coding with AI.

https://matduggan.com/i-sold-out-for-200-a-month-and-all-i-got-was-this-perfectly-generated-terraform/

Roman Busygin Feb 22

Andrew Nesbitt Feb 21

What happens when a large open source project dies?

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/21/whale-fall.html

Whale Fall

What happens when a large open source project dies.

Andrew Nesbitt

Roman Busygin Feb 8

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattiem/116029474568281627

Thanks for sharing this, @mattiem! It sparked a great discussion on AI and its real-world applications. Worth reading the whole thread.

Roman Busygin Feb 6

Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺Feb 6

PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

Roman Busygin Feb 5

Chee Aun 🤔Feb 5

Almost freaked out when I saw this, thought it could be a new VSCode feature.

Turns out, it's a special ligature feature of the Maple Mono font https://font.subf.dev/

Roman Busygin Feb 4

Finn Voorhees Feb 4

Apple engineers get IDEChatInternalAllowUntrustedAgentsWithoutUserInteraction, while us peasants need to click "allow" 100 times a day

Roman Busygin Jan 29

Oli Jan 29

"A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will somehow be able to express themselves lucidly and clearly in comments."
– @kevlin

"... or prompts." I would like to add.

Roman Busygin Jan 11

Christine Hall Jan 11

Pretty much agree with most of this: If users notice your software, you’re already a loser https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/10/if-users-notice-your-software-youre-already-a-loser/

If users notice your software, you’re already a loser

Nobody wants a computer. They want what it does. Not the annoying machine. Including phones. I just got a new phone, a Fairphone 5. It’s a nice phone! And Fairphone will even sell you it with the G…

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