Write Plain Text Files(sive.rs)

36 points by arguflow 2 years ago | 13 comments

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay(unsung.aresluna.org)

277 points by rbanffy 6 months ago | 138 comments

The Reasonable Effectiveness of Using Old Phones as Servers(jarbus.net)

7 points by jarbus 2 years ago | 0 comments

Why Not Bluesky(tbray.org)

24 points by throw0101c 1 year ago | 12 comments

Overlooked reasons to still buy physical media(brainbaking.com)

41 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 36 comments

The programmers who live in Flatland(blog.redplanetlabs.com)

79 points by winkywooster 11 months ago | 95 comments

Code is run more than read(olano.dev)

733 points by signa11 2 years ago | 297 comments

Blog post on olano.dev arguing that, beyond being read more than written, code is run more than read, extending the maxim about software priorities.

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.

A postmortem of three recent issues(anthropic.com)

361 points by moatmoat 1 year ago | 112 comments

Anthropic engineering blog post giving a technical postmortem of three bugs that intermittently degraded Claude's responses, and what is changing.

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.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

Why the AI future will be awesome(nullpaste.org)

5 points by samstress 18 days ago | 6 comments

A plain-text essay arguing that AI will bring humanity's best era, addressing concerns like bioweapons, AI cyberattacks, and misalignment.