Epistemological corrosion created by machine induced semantic replication entropy
The headline is a extract of a skeet from a gamedev/designer/dev person of Bluesky: Osaka Skilled...
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Developer tooling, AI-assisted development and software supply-chain security — and how teams actually work: pair and mob programming, XP, DevOps. 111 posts since 2012.
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Resurrecting the Panasonic WJ-MX50 in WebGPU
In which a 1990s two-bus video mixer is reduced to a reducer, and the operating manual turns out to...
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Claude Lawfare
CN: Death I. The letter My father died in November. Sometime between the 16th and the...
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sudo 'schland just give me my data
There's an old xkcd. Guy says "make me a sandwich." Gets refused. Says "sudo make me a sandwich."...
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Fallacies of distributed computing
The network is reliable; Latency is zero; Bandwidth is infinite; The network is secure; Topology...
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A Rogue Registry in My Own Backyard: Anatomy of a Two-Line Supply Chain Attack
The previous parts of this series were written from a comfortable distance. I read the Trend Micro...
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Frameworks Rot. The Platform Doesn't.
A decision memo for anyone staring at their package.json and wondering. Most arguments for leaving...
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It's Time We All Eat some more Cucumber!
Everyone's writing specs for AI now. We hand the model a markdown file, tell it what we want, and...
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Let the ORM fight begin!
Every few months, a new round of "which TypeScript ORM should we use?" breaks out — on team chats, on...
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From Vibecoding to Vibelaunching: Building the ecosystems-cli
12 months ago I set a goal: ship a production-ready CLI for the ecosyste.ms API, in Python. Some...
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2026
Local AI Will Save Us All (The Math Says So, Trust Me)
Down the Rabbit Hole: Building the Reference List for the Pair-Programming Book
From Cardboard to Code
Leading With "I Don't Know"
Your build pipeline is not your trust boundary
From Idea to Implementation-Ready: A Six-Phase Pipeline with Rewelo
I Was So Angry, I Actually Shipped It
Generator Generator
Distributed Transaction Tango: Why Your Microservices Need Sagas
The Build vs. Buy Trap: Why You Should Be Assembling Instead
Culture Trap: Why Your DevOps Transformation is Failing
The Over-Abstraction Trap: Why We Need to Stop Over-Engineering Our Infrastructure
2025
We don't need GoldenLap, We got Golden Lap at home
A so a Sauglump! - Game Prototypes
Less Dependencies, Less Problems: How to keep node.js Package Footprint Minimal
Facing the Shai-Hulud Worm: Where the Hell is Easystreet?
Building a CLI for the Ecosyste.ms API
20 Questions to Ask an LLM About Your Codebase (That You Probably Won't Like the Answers To)
I Was So Angry, I Built My Own Workshop Platform
Why I Won't Pay to Train Your Model: A Developer's Farewell to Replit
Rapid Application Prototyping with LLMs
Extreme Left Shifting
Open-Source & Cyber Resilience Act - Differing opinions aside
Pair Programming against Agentic Dementia
Agentic "Agile"
13 Years, a Walz, and a Relaunch: My Pair Programming Workshop is Back
Implementation Decisions: Replit's Approach vs. Technical Requirements
Trying to get s*** done with an LLM
I Was So Angry, I Built My Own
Counter Declining Long-Term Attention Span caused by LLM usage
The Quiet Crisis: How is AI Eroding Our Technical Competence?
The Unseen Walls: My View from the YouTube Sidelines
Navigating Crisis: The Story of Los Wochos
The AI Double-Edged Sword: Are We Trading Critical Thinking for Convenience?
Decoding Your DevOps Team: A Peek with Schein's Culture Model
Pair Programming Shorts: Capture Improvement Ideas
Pair Programming Shorts: Analyse Pairing Strategies & Interactions
Pair Programming Shorts: Prioritise Pairing Goals
Pair Programming Shorts: Key Interaction Areas
Dora + Kanban + RelativeWeight = <3
Applying Sennett's Trio to Software Architecture – Localise, Question, Open Up
Agentic Dementia
Vanilla Standards Vibes
The AI Coding Craze: Are We Dumbing Down, or Just Speeding Up?
Dienst Nach Vorschrift? Maybe It's Time We Look in the Mirror, Not at the Workforce
Vibecoding hacks
A little trick for 'Agentic Software Workflows'
Taking LLMs to (code) town - part II. Creating a vanilla.js web component toolchain from ground up
2014
Delivering a node.js training
Commercial thinking and action
Book raffle - #whywepair
Node.js training incoming
Weekly recap - Week #43
Weekly recap - Week #43
The BDD project - Second steps
The BDD project - My first results
Yo dawg, I heard you like XP Practices and BDD
Weekly recap - Week #42
4 ways to practice Nonviolent Communication on your job
Weekly recap - Week #41
Talk at Berlin PHP Usergroup: Surviving your frontend
Speaking about Pairprogramming at the Hamburg PHP Usergroup
Dissident Trainings – Preamble
BDD Podcasts and Videos
Weekly recap - Week #40
Pair Programming workshops as product
Why the N tips for XP practices post series?
A little action might not hurt - #heforshe
Weekly recap Week #39
Weekly recap Week #38
Weekly recap - Week #37
8 tips for the use of coding conventions
Weekly recap - Week #36
Weekly recap - Week #35
Ideas for modern coding
About a Bridge Thread
So that the crazy ones don't forget
The hen and egg problem
Surive your Frontend
Social Human Architecture for Beginners - The Booklist