How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm(rashil2000.me)

91 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 52 comments

A benchmark of three different floating point packages for the 6809(boston.conman.org)

32 points by ingve 2 years ago | 9 comments

Cubic spline interpolation(eli.thegreenplace.net)

78 points by signa11 3 years ago | 25 comments

Why most of us won't be inventing little languages(slesinsky.org)

82 points by luu 3 years ago | 75 comments

Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common(evanjones.ca)

279 points by ingve 3 years ago | 236 comments

Revisiting Textpattern(rubenerd.com)

38 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 14 comments

This is not the future(blog.mathieui.net)

581 points by ericdanielski 10 months ago | 309 comments

Blog post arguing against the 'this is the future, like it or not' framing for generative AI and other tech, asserting nothing is inevitable and modern technology is abusive.

Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better(addyosmani.com)

597 points by twapi 3 years ago | 149 comments

Addy Osmani blog post arguing that writing about what you learn deepens understanding and reveals gaps in your knowledge.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.

We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics(simonwillison.net)

474 points by simonw 3 years ago | 373 comments

Simon Willison blog post arguing that people should be plainly told ChatGPT lies, rather than debating terms like hallucination.

You can just say it(noperator.dev)

331 points by antirez 5 months ago | 172 comments

Personal blog essay by Caleb Gross arguing against valuing humans only for output quality that AI may eventually match, and for stating human value directly.

AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You(alexn.org)

311 points by dimonomid 1 month ago | 438 comments

Blog post by Alexandru Nedelcu arguing that AI lacks wisdom and that relying on it for coding, skipping code reviews and reading code, erodes developers' own judgment.