Posts tagged: dev

💭 Package Managers Need to Cool Down

2026-03-31T20:40:50Z

Today's LiteLLM supply chain attack inspired me to revisit the idea of dependency cooldowns, the practice of only installing updated dependencies once they've been out in the wild for a …

Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net

2026, finding the balance between fixed bugs and zero days. There is very unlikely ever a reason you need to be running bleeding edge packages in prod most package managers now support cool downs.

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💭 jack cuts block in half

2026-02-27T11:29:10Z

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X (formerly Twitter) · x.com

One of the well worded shitty messages I’ve seen, good severance, help, timeline to cut off coms.

we’re not making this decision because we’re in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we’re already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that’s accelerating rapidly.

Much better than the get rid of people cause AI can do the work. Honestly I feel this though. I was just talking with some colleages how do we divvy work in the age of agents without just constantly walking on each other. If each of us is now an architect who is managing teams of junior agents under us it feels MUCH different than before.

I’m far from working in a large software org like this and I’m feeling it. I only imagine that it gets worse the more people that have to orchestrate around each other.

Appreciate the honesty and transparance, but man this sucks for those impacted and the job market right now.

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💭 FancyGist

2026-02-25T08:07:40Z

FancyGist

fancygist.com

I saw this in @cassido’s newsletter this week and had to give it a run. I despise that there is no dark mode and it insists on burning my retinas 😤. But really this is an absolute beate of a web based markdown editor, I love the command mode to press slash and it just pops out in this whimsical animation ready for me to pick what I want.

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💭 Smaller and dumber - daverupert.com

2026-02-23T08:36:05Z

Smaller and dumber

If I can make it smaller, I should.

daverupert.com · daverupert.com

Important things to remember in the age of cheap code. More code, not always more better. More code mean, more risk, more maintenance, harder to change.

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Is Ai Faster Yet

2026-02-20T14:37:36Z

Is AI making us more productive yet, more faster yet?

Non-code #

probably not

I’ve seen this question hitting all over the Internet lately, and often points to people not writing code. Copilot turns prompts into emails, emails back into summaries that look a lot like prompts. I think there’s a place for this, making rambled thoughts sound more coherent, summarizing notes and meeting minutes. All good stuff but does it make us more productive, probably not by an amount that you can put $ $ behind, unless you are reducing headcount. thats not what we are doing right???

Coding #

with chat, probably not

When we talk about chatbots like gippity I think there’s a benefit to having someone with jr skills in everything to talk to, someone who can read all of the docs in an instant to get you some code snippet that might have taken all day to research and get right, but more productive, probably not.

Agentic Coding #

maybe

I’ve hit a stride with coding agents this year unlike I’ve hit before. Its able to bang out huge swaths of code in a prompt, with a good enough spec/plan. It absolutely churns out code. The bottleneck quickly becomes UAT.

I definitely feel like I’m doing a lot. There’s a lot that’s getting done that there’s no way I could do alone, it would take a full team with heavy coordination.

Am I more productive #

I’m definitely doing more, there are more lines of code, more ideas flowing, more docs written, more notes taken, more bugs squashed, more features out.

In the sense of generating more $ $ for the stakeholder. I really don’t know that I’m there yet, everything feels so new and different that there’s a bit of a learning curve to understand it all. There’s a pace and cadence to everything that may not be quite caught up yet.

It definitely feels like more is happening at a different pace that is hard to explain.

I’m sure there is a wide spectrum of folks out there from some generating millions of additional revenue in new greenfield industries, to those burning tokens and getting nothing in return.

With this SUPER AUTO COMPLETE engine it’s easy to say we found a bug affecting a user, but rather than squashing that one and getting a release out quickly squash ALL related bugs that a user might find in this category, it only takes a few more keystrokes right??

Right now it feels like a lot is happening but its hard to sus out the real productivity from the noise.

FIN #

As with anything AI It took me a few weeks to wrap this up and everything is already different. But I had some recent experiences of feeling slower than just doing it, and its all around context. I have built out a lot of the systems that I maintain by hand, I really know them well and I can solve a lot of problems within the hour by hand with coffee break. But now that I’m trying to lean on agents, I know they can do a more thorough job than I can faster, but I don’t have all of the data harnessed up. Just today I spent all day trying to solve CI problems. I can see the issue, I know the solution, but I want agents to solve this for me in the future so I spent the say working on a CLI to pull data from ci pipeline runs, manage the tokens get the logs, status, all of the data. Because I know this will be the way of the future, they will outpace me, I just need to have methods of getting context ready for them, and agents that know how to do it set up.

💭 trash on X: "loving the state of development right now https:/...

2026-02-19T17:07:34Z

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X (formerly Twitter) · x.com

There are so many config files right now, glad to see some standards coming in around Agents.md, but so much is still specialized to a whole host of tools that have not been standardized on yet.

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💭 dax on X: "finally got around to setting up an always on openc...

2026-02-03T08:18:39Z

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X (formerly Twitter) · x.com

I tried this flow [of running an opencode server on tailscale] on day one of getting opencode, I wanted to prompt from my phone while were were running lights at the theater. It kinda worked, but the ui was really bad on phone, hard to use and the experience overall–it felt buggy. Happy to see they are making improvements and it might now be ready for some real use.

https://dropper.wayl.one/file/9065fcb2-5e40-479c-967e-498bc9bb6a4f.mp4

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What Your Coding Tool Says About You

2026-01-21T16:25:41Z

open code - libre free as in beer and speech
Copilot - corporate 9-5er
Cursor - You sip on Philz coffee with your macbook
Claude Code - Agentic Workflows or Bust
Jetbrains - I didn’t know you wrote java
Vim/neovim - definite neck beard
VsCode - What else is there?

light mode screen recording

2026-01-01T10:14:17Z

I saw this tip from Cassidoo and had to try it out for myself. I kicked on a screen recording right from where my terminal was, converted it, and it actually looks pretty good.

ffmpeg \
   -i screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49.mp4 \
   -vf "negate,hue=h=180,eq=contrast=1.2:saturation=1.1" \
   screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49-light.mp4

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Light Mode

There are a few unsettling things about it, but overall I feel like it was a success.

💭 Using stderr/stdout correctly - YouTube

2025-12-22T15:35:30Z

Yeah there’s some basics, you know things you might expect like using standard error and standard out correctly. One thing I’ll say on that because I think this is commonly misunderstood, standard error is not for errors, it’s for any information that isn’t part of the normal output. So you know often times that’s warnings and errors, but it might just be progress information. You know anytime that you just need to have something go to the user that’s what it’s there for." (6:15 - 6:42)

I’ve definitely done this sin in my own tooling before, and it does make things harder to use. I think I still take err/out at face value. I really like the translation Jeff gave here, one is for normal output, i.e. what the user asked for and the other is extra information. So if I wanted to list something and pipe it into something else, stdout only captures the list, thats it. if you have a bunch of information about config warnings, showing environment, are you sure questions, none of that is captured.

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💭 The Github Tax (I can't believe they actually did this...) - Y...

2025-12-17T15:04:09Z

It really feels like M$ is coming down hard on GH lately to make some unfavorable decisions for users. Maybe there is good reason for all of these changes from a business perspective, I can’t judge that. But right now there are some really great alternatives out there. I’m so grateful for what forgejo and gittea offer, and at the same time seeing the community get split up from GH is sad.

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💭 2025-11-27 Notes

2025-12-01T17:28:13Z

2025-11-27 Notes | Nic Payne

yesterday: [[2025-11-26-notes]] Big Changes Got my workspaces script in working order It's not quite configurable yet This will allow an easy way to setup

pype.dev

Nic is also building out a similar workspaces script. This feels like such a great thing to have ai work on fully customized tools for your personal workflow. Also Nice shout out!

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💭 Running Software on Software You’ve Never Run

2025-09-29T18:54:45Z

Running Software on Software You’ve Never Run

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Running software applications in production today is crazy. One point release opens up for supply chain attacks. What’s crazier is not running your production applications without a lock file, potentially running dependencies you’ve never ran before for the first time in prod.

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💭 a new chapter

2025-09-16T01:30:36Z

A New Chapter

In a recent turn of events, I find myself at a bit of a crossroads with an exciting new job on the horizon! In this post, I introduce myself and discuss my vision for the new blog.

Jesse Leite · jesseleite.com

Sub to this man. I met Jesse long ago as we both spoke at the same remote vim conf. He is into vim, weird keyboards, and medroid what more could you ask for. Now react and exlixer. I only know https://statamic.com/ through Jesse, they have the sickest branding ever. Now I will need to see what this savvycal is about.

https://jesseleite.com/feed

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💭 Vibe code is legacy code | Val Town Blog

2025-09-03T02:14:45Z

Vibe code is legacy code

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

blog.val.town

Brilliantly said. Vibe coding is legacy code. It’s code that we forget exists. Code that no one touches, you replace it. If you touch it you are more likely to break it.

The worst possible situation is to have a non-programmer vibe code a large project that they intend to maintain. This would be the equivalent of giving a credit card to a child without first explaining the concept of debt.

As you can imagine, the first phase is ecstatic. I can wave this little piece of plastic in stores and take whatever I want! …

💭 Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option - Edward...

2025-08-28T23:45:53Z

Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option - Edward Loveall

blog.edwardloveall.com

This post is a masterclass in blogging, cross linking, backing up your ideas with posts from other great sources. I have a week of reading inside this post, and need to come back later when Im not sick.

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💭 Explore - Forgejo

2025-08-27T20:38:36Z

Explore

Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

Forgejo · git.dbushell.com

damn david has been busy, this is sick seeing all of the repos, I’m ready to jump in!

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💭 Eric: "This was pushed out with a rus…" - Mastodon

2025-08-27T20:35:30Z

Eric (@eric@social.ericwbailey.website)

This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values.

If you don't want it, tell them. Social media …

Mastodon · social.ericwbailey.website

damn, M$ really pushing hard on moving github into the ai org.

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💭 The BIGGEST lie in software development - YouTube

2025-08-27T20:24:38Z

This man feels sad, he never had a chance to bloom. He was stuck behind the drudgery of jira tickets. This is what the consultant driven agile has got us. Its ripped out all the thinking and creativity, its left us with moving tickets across the board, not allowed time to run on an idea when we have one. Not allowed to do extra work or refactoring in a module that we are already in. pushed to move faster for less.

I feel like this mans experience has been quite different from my own and I’m grateful to have some leeway to be creative and do some meaningful work outside the jira board. I’m grateful to be able to provide a good income for my family without taking on all the risk myself.

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💭 GitHub - cortesi/modd: A flexible developer tool that runs pro...

2025-08-25T15:40:39Z

GitHub - cortesi/modd: A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes

A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes - cortesi/modd

GitHub · github.com

Gave modd a try today, and I like it, its something I am going to consider slotting right into my justfiles. Gave it a try and it seems to work really well out of the box and easy to configure.

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