The Emacsification of Software(sockpuppet.org)

394 points by rdslw 5 months ago | 247 comments

A blog post arguing developers want a good Markdown viewer, discussing how LLM agents have revived TUI tooling and an Emacs-like trend in software.

How to Write with an LLM(sockpuppet.org)

696 points by joeriddles 1 month ago | 396 comments

Blog post on sockpuppet.org offering two rules for using LLMs to streamline and improve writing without making it bland.

Stop Making TUIs(sockpuppet.org)

406 points by underdeserver 2 months ago | 516 comments

Blog post arguing developers should stop building terminal user interfaces (TUIs) and instead build native GUI applications, re-evaluating the field's attachment to the command line.

Vulnerability research is cooked(sockpuppet.org)

214 points by pedro84 7 months ago | 144 comments

I Went to SQL Injection Court(sockpuppet.org)

1162 points by mrkurt 1 year ago | 416 comments

Blog post by Thomas Ptacek about testifying in an Illinois court case over whether public bodies can withhold database schemas from FOIA requests, and pending legislation.

Rust Glancer(matklad.github.io)

28 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 6 comments

What AI-Native Looks Like(fagnerbrack.com)

14 points by fagnerbrack 1 month ago | 7 comments

A blog post by Fagner Brack on Medium describing what an AI-native approach to software development with stable infrastructure looks like.

Open source AI must win(opensourceaimustwin.com)

1480 points by vednig 4 months ago | 459 comments

A manifesto arguing that open source AI must remain usable, reproducible, locally deployable and community-governed rather than controlled by a few closed labs.

Buck2: Our open source build system(engineering.fb.com)

327 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 213 comments

Meta Engineering blog post announcing the open source release of Buck2, its large-scale build system.

Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models(simonwillison.net)

641 points by loganfrederick 2 years ago | 566 comments

Simon Willison's blog post with notes on OpenAI's o1-preview and o1-mini models, covering chain-of-thought training, API details, hidden reasoning tokens and examples.

Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust(blog.startifact.com)

361 points by robin_reala 1 year ago | 211 comments

Blog post by Martijn Faassen introducing Xee, an XML Execution Engine written in Rust that implements modern versions of XPath and XSLT.

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO(github.com)

852 points by GrumpySciGuy 2 months ago | 585 comments

GitHub repository for OpenExecutive, an open source AI virtual executive team built from 8 specialist Claude agents using FastAPI and Next.js.