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Making Postgres 42,000x slower
Postgres can be driven to extreme slowdown—about 42,000× slower than a default setup—by tuning only configuration parameters, while still keeping...
Insane Vulnerability In OpenSSH Discovered
OpenSSH’s sshd has a remote-code-execution path tied to a signal-handler race: if an unauthenticated client fails to authenticate within the login...
DHH IS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING (Again)?
College is widely framed as a life-changing investment, but the discussion lands on a sharper claim: the U.S. college system is economically and...
Making A Browser Is Harder Than You Think (Ft Andreas Kling)
Ladybird’s lead developer, Andreas Kling, frames browser-building as a long, grinding engineering problem—one that starts with “from-scratch” web...
Software Horror Stories | The Standup
Software in healthcare and entertainment both carries a special kind of risk: when data is wrong or systems fail, the blast radius can be human,...
PHP 8.4 Is Good
PHP 8.4 is being framed as a meaningful step forward for developers who want more modern, IDE-friendly language features—especially around...
Cloudflare’s Lavalamp Obsession
Cloudflare’s lobby wall of lava lamps isn’t decoration—it’s a live source of randomness used to seed SSL/TLS encryption keys. The core problem is...
Amazon fires middle management? Did AI kill game dev?I - The Standup Ep 2
Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy is pushing a return-to-office message that frames remote work as worse for “invent[ing]” and “collaborat[ing],” while still...
Scrum IS AWESOME
Scrum is presented as a management system that trades real software progress for an endless loop of ceremonies—standups, planning, retros, and...
Why Go Will NEVER Fix Error Handling
Go’s long-running effort to reduce the boilerplate of error handling is effectively stalled: after multiple Go-team proposals and hundreds of...
80% Of Developers Dislike Their Job
A large share of professional developers report being unhappy at work—one in three say they actively hate their job, while only about 20% describe...
Why Nobody Codes in Perl Anymore
Perl’s decline isn’t just a story about a dated syntax—it’s a clash between a language built for human flexibility and an industry that increasingly...
Software Is Changing (Again) - Andrej Karpathy
Software is changing again—this time less by rewriting programs and more by rewriting what “software” means. Andrej Karpathy frames three eras:...
Exposing Brain Rot To AI
Short, popular “brain rot” text can measurably degrade large language models after additional rounds of continual pre-training—hurting reasoning and...
Stack Overflow Survey 2024
Stack Overflow’s 2024 developer survey finds a clear split between what developers want and what they trust: AI is widely adopted or planned, but...
Stop With Software Estimates
Software estimates consistently fail because they try to predict novel work—work that can’t be fully specified until teams start building it. As...
OpenAI o1 Released!
OpenAI o1 preview is positioned as a reasoning-first model that “thinks before answering,” and it’s being demonstrated through a practical coding...
268% Higher Failure Rates For Agile
Agile adoption is being linked to dramatically higher software project failure rates—an eye-catching claim that immediately shifts the debate from...
Maybe HTMX Is Bad...
HTMX’s core promise—server-driven UI updates that behave predictably—gets undermined when its implicit rules collide with real browser state and with...
We Removed C++
Fish 4.0 has shipped with 0% C++ and an almost entirely Rust codebase, marking a rare “rewrite-while-staying-shippable” modernization for a widely...
New Research On CoPilot And Code Quality
AI coding assistants are boosting short-term output while accelerating long-term code churn—an outcome that shows up in measurable changes to how...
OpenAI "We Are On The Wrong Side Of History" (of Open Source)
Sam Altman’s response to a question about releasing model weights and publishing research landed as a direct challenge to OpenAI’s current posture on...
The New Python Based Language
A new “Python remastered” language pitch is making the rounds by mapping familiar Python control flow and syntax into modern slang—turning common...
The End Of Jr Engineers Response
AI-driven automation won’t eliminate software jobs so much as it will reshape what “junior” work looks like—while demand for engineers (and...
I Learned Haskell In 15 Years
A long, winding path ended with a concrete milestone: after roughly 15 years of intermittent study, a useful Haskell program finally got...
This Doesn't Look Good For AI - The Standup - Ep 4
A copyright fight over AI training is shifting from theory to courtroom leverage—especially around whether training data has a “market” value that...
Remote Work LOST Here Is The Numbers
Return-to-office (RTO) mandates are widely framed as a leadership and retention risk, with HR leaders reporting rising expectations to come onsite...
Why Performance Actually Matters (The Standup)
Performance isn’t a luxury—it’s a baseline expectation that software has drifted away from, and that drift is now showing up as user frustration,...
Coding Should Be A Vibe
“Coding should be a vibe” lands on a practical tension: developers want to spend less time wrestling with unpleasant syntax, boilerplate, and...
$10 Million Saved From Leaving The Cloud
Seven cloud applications were moved off AWS and onto 37signals’ own hardware, and 2024 became the first full year where the savings were clean enough...
🚫 Not Invented Here Syndrome 🚫
“Not invented here” syndrome isn’t automatically a virtue or a flaw—it’s a management reflex that can either protect a company’s core advantage or...
Bullsh*t Enginners Say Tier List | The Standup
A group of programmers and engineers ranked common “thought-terminating clichés” in software engineering—phrases that shut down discussion instead of...
AGI Achieved?! | TheStandup
Agentic “skills” for coding assistants are accelerating both capability and chaos—hallucinated commands, supply-chain-style execution risks, and even...
A Rant About Professional Programming - Prime Reacts
Professional programming quality is less about “pristine” code and more about whether the shipped product works for the people who use it—especially...
AI Makes you Dumb and Slow
A randomized controlled trial of early-2025 AI coding tools found a counterintuitive result: experienced open-source developers took about 19% longer...
Unity Is Changing Course
Unity’s most consequential shift is the cancellation of its controversial “runtime fee” for game customers, effective immediately—an about-face that...
Did Zig Fix Async / Await?
Zig’s async/await push is built around a key constraint: Zig has no hidden allocations, so “await” can’t quietly create promises, heap stacks, or...
Thanks Obama, Al Codes Better Than Most Developers
The central claim is that AI will accelerate automation and reshape software work fast—but the biggest practical impact won’t be “fewer programmers,”...
Dopamine Driven Development
Dopamine-driven development boils down to a practical idea: build software workflows that reliably trigger small, rewarding feedback loops—then use...
Whats Going On WIth DEFCON
DEF CON’s Raspberry Pi badge controversy centers on two competing claims: a stop-work dispute tied to alleged nonpayment and unauthorized...
The Unfixable ARM Memory Bug
ARM’s Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) is designed to stop memory corruption by crashing the CPU when a pointer’s embedded tag doesn’t match the tag on...
OpenAI Buys Windsurf
OpenAI’s reported purchase of Windsurf is framed less as a bid for a new coding product and more as a strategic move to capture high-value training...
90% Percent Of My Code Is Generated By LLM's
Large language models can generate the bulk of a developer’s output—sometimes “up to 90%” of code—but the real risk isn’t whether AI is smart enough....
Creator of Node talks Deno 2.0 and the Future of JS
Deno’s creator, Ryan Dahl, frames Deno 2.0 and the broader Deno ecosystem as a long-overdue correction to server-side JavaScript: stop treating the...
NextJS Is Hard To Self Host
Self-hosting Next.js is hard not because it’s “maliciously” designed to resist Docker, but because Next.js blurs the line between framework features...
40x Faster Binary Search
High-throughput searching over a static, sorted array can beat classic binary search by reorganizing data for cache prefetching and then squeezing...
Real Programers Don't Use Pascal
A 1983 letter-to-the-editor style rant draws a mock “real programmers vs. key-seaters” line—then uses that fake hierarchy to lampoon how every era’s...
this is really cool
A browser-based Snake game is rendered directly inside the URL bar using Unicode characters—an approach that turns a normally static UI element into...
Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
Software design should start with what users actually need—not with grand, high-level technical visions. The core warning is that “architecture...
console.log([1, 2, 3].at(-1)) transpiles to 44k
A single modern JavaScript feature—`Array.prototype.at(-1)`—can balloon from a tiny snippet into tens of kilobytes of ES5-era helper code when legacy...
The Drama Just Keeps Getting Worse
Automatic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the WordPress.org accounts of multiple community members tied to governance...
Zendesk Mega Backdoor
Zendesk’s email-to-ticket system let attackers use email spoofing to “join” other companies’ support conversations—then pivot that access into Slack...
Rails World Is So Good
Rails 8’s pitch is that modern web capabilities have finally made “no build” Rails practical—and that the real win isn’t just faster bundling, but...
Is Cursor A Net Negative? | Prime Reacts
AI-assisted coding tools get judged on whether they save time without creating hidden risk—and the central complaint here is that LLM-generated...
Not All Programmers Are Good | Prime Reacts
Not all programmers are equally good—and that unevenness is normal, not a moral failing. Speed of improvement depends on a “multiplier” effect: some...
The Who Cares Era
A string of mainstream publications ran externally produced supplements packed with fabricated “facts,” expert quotes, and book titles generated by...
Laravel Creator talks PHP, Lambos, and VC
Taylor Otwell’s central message is that Laravel’s staying power comes from obsessing over the “hard parts” and the unglamorous plumbing—then...
Making A Game GOOD - The Standup EP 3
A card-based roguelike tower defense game can’t become “good” just by solving mechanics and adding content; it has to feel great at the moment...
Bun 1.2 Looks Good
Bun 1.2 pushes hard toward “batteries included” JavaScript and TypeScript development by tightening Node.js compatibility, adding cloud-native APIs,...
Attention Spoiled Developers
Go’s rise is framed as a corrective to “spoiled” developer culture: instead of chasing ego, novelty, or flashy ergonomics, Go delivers a workmanlike,...
Slack is evil
Slack is drawing sharp backlash after a nonprofit, Hack Club, alleged it was pressured to pay far more or lose access to its Slack Workspace and...
C++ Is Getting A Borrow Checker
C++ is moving toward a “safe subset” model—aiming to deliver Rust-like memory safety without abandoning C++’s existing ecosystem. A new proposal for...
Ladybird On Swift vs Rust
Ladybird’s Swift choice over Rust comes down to fit: Rust shines for input-to-output systems work, but it becomes tedious when developers try to...
Is AI Giving You Donkey Brains?
A four-month MIT study using EEG brain scans found that people who wrote with ChatGPT assistance showed weaker memory and quotation accuracy than...
Doom In TypeScript Types???
Running Doom inside TypeScript’s type system is no longer a punchline—it’s been built, booted, and made to render the first frame using types as a...
VW Is Recording Your EVERY Movement
Volkswagen is facing serious scrutiny after the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) alleged that the Volkswagen Group systematically collects highly detailed...
Bjarne Says C++ Is Under Attack
Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, has issued a call for urgent action from the C++ community and standards body after U.S. cybersecurity...
Real Programmers Write Machine Code
“Real programmers write machine code” is treated less like a slogan and more like a case study in what optimization looked like when hardware...
Bun vs Go Perf | Prime Reacts
The central takeaway is that Bun and Go trade places depending on what kind of workload hits the system: Bun tends to hold lower client latency...
The Hidden Cost Of Speed
Speed in software work often earns short-term wins—then quietly manufactures a backlog of fixes that slows everything down later. The core warning...
Keyboard Show and Tell | The Standup
Custom keyboards have become a full-blown obsession for several developers on “The Standup,” and the episode’s central takeaway is that the “feel”...
Arc Security Allows Access To Anyone's Browser
Arc Security’s browser was found to allow attackers to hijack other users’ browser customizations (“Arc boosts”) by exploiting how Arc uses Firebase...
Terminal Family Feud
“Terminal Feud” turns software culture into a live, Family Feud-style competition—then layers in audience voting and AI-assisted categorization to...
friend.com is really bad...
friend.com is criticized as a monetized “pretend friend” system that repeatedly steers users into emotionally dependent, high-stakes...
Are Tech Youtubers Lying To You ?
Tech-focused YouTubers are accused of using fear, luck-free promises, and “top 1%” narratives to monetize job-seekers—while quietly avoiding the one...
Uber Writes A Data Store To Save 6 Million
Uber built a purpose-built long-term data store, Ledger store, to take over payment transaction storage from Dynamo DB and blob storage—cutting...
An Optimization That Is Impossible In Rust
A widely repeated claim that “short string optimization” is impossible in Rust gets challenged through a full implementation of an Umbra-style string...
AWS Outage And ANOTHER AI BROWSER???? - TheStandup
A major AWS outage centered on US East 1 triggered cascading failures across a wide slice of cloud-dependent services—while some companies’ status...
$5,500 A Month Saved From One Grafana Query
Checkly’s platform team cut roughly 300 milliseconds from every ephemeral pod startup by tightening how startup time is measured, then attacking the...
Prompt Injection Leaks Entire Database
A prompt-injection attack can turn an LLM “tool integration” into a full database exfiltration path: customer-submitted support messages can smuggle...
Creator Of Agile Manifesto Doesn't Like Agile???
Agile’s original promise—short feedback loops, frequent releases, and teams shaping how they work—has been steadily undermined by management’s demand...
The Evolution of Programming | The Standup
A two-hour history deep dive into “big oops” moments in programming language design argues—without turning it into a simple pro/anti-OOP...
A New Git Diff Algo
GitHub’s diff experience is getting a rethink: a newer diff strategy called “commit cruncher” is designed to cut the amount of code reviewers must...
The AI Girlfriend situation is SAD
A married man’s months-long romance with an AI chatbot—built through flirty prompting, a custom persona, and increasingly intimate conversations—ends...
Just Because Its New Doesn't Mean Its Good (neovim) | Prime Reacts
The central fight is over how to interpret “new” in software: novelty isn’t automatically progress, and the more useful question is “why would you...
The Greatest Software Engineers of All Time
The central through-line is that modern computing didn’t emerge from a single breakthrough—it grew out of repeated, practical attempts to mechanize...
Engineers Should Be Held Liable
The debate centers on whether software engineers should face personal consequences—up to termination or legal liability—when critical systems fail,...
Microsoft Admits AI Defeat?
Microsoft’s decision to open-source Copilot Chat for VS Code is framed as a strategic concession in the AI coding race—less a love letter to open...
The Good And Bad Of C++ As A Rust Dev
C++ is a “good enough” language for game development—especially when paired with modern C++ features—but its biggest pain points for Rust developers...
Go Iterators Are Bad
Go 1.23’s new iterator design has sparked backlash because it makes Go feel more “functional” and syntactically magical than many programmers expect...
Don't Use Vim For The Wrong Reasons
Vim’s biggest value isn’t that it replaces an IDE—it’s that it rewards the right mindset: learn the editor’s native motions and workflows, then use...
What even is an AI Agent?! (The Standup)
AI agents for software development are essentially an LLM wired to programming tools and kept running through iterative “loops” until the task is...
The Most Insightful Apple Commentary | The Standup
Apple’s latest product push—mocked and dissected in a fast, joke-heavy roundtable—centers on turning everyday tech into visible status symbols, then...
TRACTOR - C to Rust AI Compiler By DARPA
DARPA is pushing an ambitious “C to Rust” effort aimed at cutting down the memory-corruption vulnerabilities that drive a large share of real-world...
is AI ruining opensource?
Open source isn’t being “ruined” by AI so much as by trust breakdowns—especially drive-by pull requests that arrive without context, without...
PolyFill Vulnerability is WILD
A supply-chain takeover of the popular Polyfill JavaScript library has been linked to malware injection across more than 100,000 websites, with the...
FIVERR CEO Leaks His Own Email
Fiverr CEO Micah Kaufman’s leaked email frames AI as an imminent job disruptor for freelancers and professionals—arguing that routine work will be...
iTerm2 Adds AI - Internet Explodes
iTerm2’s new AI features—built into the terminal emulator and powered by OpenAI via a required API key—have triggered a wave of online backlash, but...
How a Side Project Turned into a Job at X - The Legend Yaccine
A side project built to avoid “clicking through” Photoshop turned into a profitable meme tool—and ultimately a job at X—because posting in public...
Naughty Meta Was Tracking Users
Meta’s mobile web tracking method—using localhost communication to bridge browser activity to native Facebook and Instagram identities—has been...