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Two Claude Code Features I Built Before Anthropic/images/blog/claude-code-features-before-anthropic/header-combined.webp/images/blog/claude-code-features-before-anthropic/header-combined.webp I'm not the type who brags, but I have to brag about this. I guess it's not really bragging. It's more lik...
Through my 4 (!) podcasts I obviously have built up a lot of opinions on podcasting over the years. Here's some of them. The two outlier podcasts of our time are Dwarkesh and TBPN, and I will explain my mental ...
This is a short and sweet way to get feedback on your work in a specific, helpful way!
Any future perfectly known, said Alan Watts, is already the past. But life is not in the past. Life is now, life is here, life is this moment. The only...
What is the food and drink that represents you?
Nick Nisi joins us to dig into the latest trends from this year and how they're impacting his day-to-day coding and Vision Pro wearing. Anthropic's acquisition of Bun, the evolving JavaScript and AI landscape, GitHub's challenges and the Amp/Sourcegraph split. ...
Our very brains, our human nature, our desire for comfort, our habits, our social structures, all of it, pushes us into being fish bowl swimmers. Tiny people moving in tiny...
An old feature request on a repo has me in my feelings!
Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, stops by to help us explore his tech predictions for 2026 and beyond. Will companionship be redefined by consumer robots? Will quantum-safe become the only safe worth talking about? Is this the dawn of the renaissance ...
The CSS clamp() function is a clean way to make your apps and sites responsive. Here's how!
A TUI and CLI for exploring the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).
For most of my career, I've been confusing building products with building businesses—and that confusion kept me from pursuing a lot of ideas. Two weeks off helped me realize that not everything needs to be a startup, and some of ...
A lot of people building software today never took the traditional CS path. They arrived through curiosity, a job that needed automating, or a late-night itch to make something work. This week, David Kopec joins me to talk about rebuilding ...
There are, I believe, very few technologies that are like CRDTs, Conflict-free Replicated Data Types: very easy to use, very powerful and yet not much known, so we don't see
Codemods, or code modification tools, are automated scripts to help transform code to match newer, updated systems. They're handy!
“On November 29th, Lachlan Davidson reported a security vulnerability in React that allows unauthenticated remote code execution [...] This vulnerability was disclosed as CVE-2025-55182 and is rated CVSS 10.0.”
Dr. Jonathan Slotkin, a neurosurgeon and co-founder of Scrub Capital, published an excellent piece in the NYThttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html today about autonomous car safety. DANIEL: Opening commentary here The human cost When that much energy enters a skull, n...
iCloud Drive Fix - Clearing the FileProvider database cache/images/fix-slow-icloud-diagram.png/images/fix-slow-icloud-diagram.png I was recently going insane trying to figure out why everything on my Mac was DeathGod slow. - Apps were taking forever to open - Finder was unresponsive - The whole ...
Sometimes you might need to change when a commit happened. Here's how!
Matheus Lima on what makes senior developers actually senior, Tega Brain created a browser extension for avoiding AI slop, Andrew Kelley moves Zig from GitHub to Codeberg, Matias Heikkilä says there's no free lunch for vibe coding, and your SSD ...
Sometimes things get old and unmaintained. Don't we all? But we can fix that in your projects!
Topics covered in this episode: Advent of Code starts today Django 6 is coming Advanced, Overlooked Python Typing codespell Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/460
A wrap up of all the things that happened in Terminal Trove in November 2025.
In this episode, I’m talking with Vincent Warmerdam about treating LLMs as just another API in your Python app, with clear boundaries, small focused endpoints, and good monitoring. We’ll dig into patterns for wrapping these calls, caching and inspecting responses, ...
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Our old friend Lars Wikman returns to the show to discuss Linux distro hopping, Elixir, Nerves, embedded systems, home automation with Home Assistant, karate, and more.
After years of complaints, AWS Compute Optimizer can identify idle NAT Gateways. At $35/month each plus data processing fees, finding unused gateways just got dramatically easier. The post AWS Finally Lets You Find Your Idle NAT Gateways appeared first on ...
Let's hear how Wikipedia actually works from long-time Wikipedian, Bill Beutler! Bill has been heavily involved with this "8th wonder of the modern world" for two decades and even built a career on it, founding Beutler Ink –a digital agency ...
“By default, you get the dreaded hydration pattern—do all the computing on the server in JavaScript (yay!), serve up HTML straight away (yay! yay!) …and then serve up all the same JavaScript that’s on the server anyway (ya—wait, what?).”
As the release of Kubernetes v1.35 approaches, the Kubernetes project continues to evolve. Features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced to improve the project's overall health. This blog post outlines planned changes for the v1.35 release that the release team ...
A simple & powerful eBPF-based network issue, analysis and tracing tool.
A collection of red flags in software engineers' test assignments
The Same Vulnerability Pattern/images/is-prompt-injection-vulnerability-header.png I want to respond to my buddy Joseph Thacker's blog posthttps://josephthacker.com/ai/2025/11/24/prompt-injection-isnt-a-vulnerability.html about whether Prompt Injection is a vulnerability. I'm in the "Yes" camp. ...
With Thanksgiving upon us I’m reminded that 2025 is quickly coming to a close. As you look ahead to 2026 I hope you consider Big W Engineering Solutions to help you scale up, expand your capabilities, or overcome tough challenges. ...
It's now a common pass time for bloggers, content publishers and website administrators to share their best tips and trick on how to best block scraping bots. I've also spent
I've cracked the code on breaking the eternal cycle - features win, tech debt piles up, codebase becomes 'legacy', and an eventual rewrite. Using coding agents at GitHub, I now merge multiple tech debt PRs weekly while still delivering features. ...
Configuration is one of those things in Kubernetes that seems small until it's not. Configuration is at the heart of every Kubernetes workload. A missing quote, a wrong API version or a misplaced YAML indent can ruin your entire deploy. ...
The BenQ coding monitor does come with one major downside, but it (surprisingly) became my primary monitor as soon as I unboxed it.
Prompt Injection OPSEChttps://danielmiessler.com/images/prompt-injection-opsec-header.png I want to respond to this blog posthttps://disesdi.substack.com/p/ai-red-teaming-has-an-opsec-problem that's arguing that prompt injection strings are essentially zero-days that we should not share with attack...
Cedric Chin says comparisons of our current AI *maybe-bubble* to the dot-com bubble and the 2008 GFC are limiting, Matthew Prince does a post-mortem on last week's Cloudflare outage, "hl" is a fast / powerful log viewer for humans, Enthusiast ...
