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18 from 7 Feb 2024 to 23 Jan 2026
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2026 7

  1. The Birthday Paradox, simulated
  2. Pre-agent nostalgia
  3. Features for no one (AI edition)
  4. We might have been slower to abandon Stack Overflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole
  5. Cool project, will you actually maintain it?
  6. Software craftsmanship is dead
  7. The Monty Hall Problem, a side-by-side simulation

2025 4

  1. I hope generative AI does away with SEO
  2. npm needs an analog to pnpm's minimumReleaseAge and yarn's npmMinimalAgeGate
  3. Make your PR process resilient to AI slop
  4. AI hype is excessive, but its productivity gains are real

2024 7

  1. Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am
  2. The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape
  3. Quality is a hard sell in big tech
  4. Agile is a tainted term
  5. Surely dark UX doesn't work in the long run
  6. RSS is still pretty great
  7. Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is terrible