1. F Fragments: October 21 Gergely Orosz is frustrated at those that entered his explicitly “No AI” essay competition and used AI. He goes on to say: When I start to suspect some part is AI about someone I d 10/21 18:51 ♡
2. W When Software Meets Hardware When software meets hardware, engineering principles remain largely the same, but the sensible defaults often change. Kuldeep Singh describes our experience modernizing a large IoT 10/15 21:25 ♡
3. B Build your slide template Building a slide template starts with three foundational choices — colours, fonts and layouts. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe covers the basics of color theory and how to build a reu 10/14 22:20 ♡
4. T The Craft of Practitioner Voice A couple of months ago Jim Highsmith explained how practitioners writing for each other forms a distinct style of writing. He now adds a section to the article with more detail on 10/13 22:06 ♡
5. A Are Harnesses Worth the Cost? Naresh Jain compares coding agents building the same API service with and without a behavioral harness. A frontier model, GPT-6 Sol, passed every external evaluation either way. Bu 10/13 21:35 ♡
6. F Fragments: October 4 In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” 10/05 12:28 ♡
7. P Principles for effective slides Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe se 09/30 22:14 ♡
8. B Bliki: Sensible Default A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software development such sensible defaults might 09/29 21:43 ♡
9. F Fragments: September 29 Simon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but un 09/29 20:41 ♡
10. F Fragments: September 24 Rob Bowley is “flipping tables in his head” with anger at the current media coverage of the danger of AI killing us all The risk I’m worried about isn’t a future machine deciding t 09/24 23:35 ♡