Lessons about XML from the open source IRS Tax Withholding Estimator.

Reflections on building SAFE, Databricks’ internal feature flagging platform.

Something interesting to learn more about the building terms

TL;DR I had Claude Code implement a very simplified version of Git in 13 languages. Ruby,... Tagged with ai, llm, programming.

Single-binary CLI and MCP server for querying biomedical databases

We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility - Install Programs, Tweaks, Fixes, and Updates - ChrisTitusTech/winutil

The early web had a “view source” ethos: you saw something interesting, you looked at how it was built, you learned from it, you made something of your own.

This speaks so much to me.

Why you need business SLOs

Je me suis lancé dans des séries TV, c'est une mauvaise idée, mais je dois reconnaître que d'un point de vue qualitatif le cinéma déçoit extrêmement. L'explication est assez simple, on peut dire merci à Netflix et aux plateformes de streaming qui produisent du "cinéma". On va tout de même balayer du

Something Big Is Happening. A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

IA working as an extraction tool for capitalism

I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things.

AI is just the layer that made the pretence impossible to maintain.

I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…

The inversion of Linus Torvalds’ famous dictum has been circulating for months now. “Code is cheap. Show me the talk.” It’s a clever rhetorical move, suggesting that articulation and architectural thinking have displaced typing as the limiting factor in software development. But I think this framing, while containing a kernel of truth, fundamentally misunderstands where costs have actually moved.

Blog BD humoristique et hétéroclite où se côtoient fictions absurdes, vulgarisation scientifique et satire politique.