Unmesh Joshi finds LLMs to be a useful tool, but explains why their help becomes illusory if we use them to shortcut the learning loop that's an essential part of our professional practice. more…

Stakeholders are silly people. Everything feels important and urgent. Stack ranking helps

Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.

Stakeholders are silly people. Everything feels important and urgent. Stack ranking helps

As a financial services company, it is paramount that our investing system makes decisions based on accurate, up-to-date, and valid data. A single bad input can lead to disastrous outcomes, including costly trading mistakes and a loss of client trust. At Wealthfront, we built a system called ValidUn...

Databases are often one of the biggest infrastructure expenses for any company. From day one, Neon’s mission has been to make databases radically more efficient through separation of storage and compute, allowing instant autoscaling and better unit economics. Now, with Neon running on Databricks’ gl...

Our official API client for Python has come a long way. It began in July 2018 as pdpyras (for PagerDuty Python REST API Sessions) out... The post Introducing Our New Thread-safe API Client for Python appeared first on PagerDuty.

Master OAuth 2.0 in .NET 9.0! This tutorial covers using OAuth 2 to acquire tokens and access Microsoft Graph user data.

Master OAuth 2.0 in .NET 9.0! This tutorial covers using OAuth 2 to acquire tokens and access Microsoft Graph user data.

Today's audiences don't just watch or listen to your content. They react to it in real time, chat with friends while streaming, vote on outcomes, and expect to shape what happens next.

Today's audiences don't just watch or listen to your content. They react to it in real time, chat with friends while streaming, vote on outcomes, and expect to shape what happens next.

This blog post did land on Hacker News at: news.ycombinator.com We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source 300 points — 154 comments — keybits — 11:03 AM - 28 Oct 2025 Thank you for the thoughtful discussion. On proof of work, micro transaction and other ways of passing...

A team retrospective is not just another useless meeting, and if you feel so, it means you are doing it wrong, and this article is for you.

If you've ever used Web Workers (or any other event-based communication), you probably noticed that this kind of code can be hard to read and reason about. You also have to implement some kind of identifier for each message to recognize which worker response corresponds to which request. To simplify...

I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished. This week's excerpt is from Chapter 2, about Ruby's compiler. Whenever I thin...

We've been building Workflows for a while now: this is our Zapier-style automation builder you can use to trigger actions based on live user…

Surprisingly (to me) Claude Code debugged my new ML-DSA implementation faster than I would have, finding the non-obvious low-level issue that was making Verify fail.

At Notion, we’ve been doing a quality sprint to increase our test coverage. Friday was the last day, and I wanted to get some more tests written. Time was short, which forced me to break my usual workflow. Not that I really have a usual workflow, these days. New AI-augmented programming tools and te...

LLMs take time to generate code. I’ve set things up so I can switch to another task while I wait. But, surprisingly, I’ve found this is usually the wrong idea. First, if I switch, the context I had on the first task drains away. When I return, I’ll need to load that context back. Second, if the firs...

Cruise zeppelins don't have windows looking down. Theirs open at night to look with indifference to the...

VRPs are changing the way businesses collect recurring payments.

VRPs are changing the way businesses collect recurring payments.

Once upon a pipeline… It was a nice summer evening, and our CI lived happily in a familiar castle: Hetzner. Bare-metal towers gave us everything we needed, with cheap CPU and RAM per unit, free internal traffic, and huge local disks to hoard caches like dragons guard gold. Our workflows were built t...