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For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that...

On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what wo...

Looking foolish is underrated.

Best practices remain remarkably static

By now, every dev (and business leader) feels some type of way about AI. How could we not? Every time you open the news, listen to a podcast, or visit your...

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

RAM prices are, frankly, insultingly high. Like so ridiculously high it's absurd. It's got me thinking: We need better software. Electron, Windows, Chrome, D...

Old-fashioned approaches to creating software often encourage us to think of the activities involved as stages or phases in the process: the design phase, the...

Everyone's worried about slop, but good code will prevail, not only because we want it to, but because economic forces demand it.

A reflection on how JavaScript self-sustains itself through never-ending novelty

Too much JavaScript is bad, no JavaScript isn't better

Monitoring the field doesn't feel like learning new things anymore. It feels like reading a never ending flow of brand content updates similar to consumer tech...

Wondering where to go from now

The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications by Adam Wiggins. We cover how they have since evolved, and...

“One of the great commandments of science is, "Mistrust arguments from authority." Too many such arguments have proved too painfully wrong. Authorities must...

To frugally furnish a codebase, imitate Ikea.

(This post is also now also listed on the Pickcode Blog) Leaving Teaching I’m posting this on my last day teaching high school computer science. In the pas...

A Critique of How We've Fooled Ourselves for Years.