IRCv3(ircv3.net)
355 points by basilikum | 305 comments
Homepage of IRCv3, the working group that develops and publishes specifications and extensions for the modern IRC client protocol.
#specifications on Hacker News
6 stories tagged specifications, newest first.
Markdown in /src(htmx.org)
138 points by perrygeo | 77 comments
An htmx.org essay by Carson Gross arguing that Markdown is becoming source code and should be checked into /src, with code and tests derived from it rather than ephemeral prompts.
Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated(stevekrouse.com)
566 points by stevekrouse | 419 comments
Steve Krouse blog post arguing that code will not be replaced by AI-written specs, since a sufficiently detailed spec is itself code.
A sufficiently detailed spec is code(haskellforall.com)
535 points by signa11 | 291 comments
A Haskell for all blog post, built around a comic strip, arguing that a specification detailed enough to generate a program is effectively code itself.
A new PNG spec(programmax.net)
539 points by tbillington | 253 comments
Blog post by ProgramMax announcing the release of a new PNG specification after two decades of stalled progress and explaining why it matters.
A new PNG spec(programmax.net)
610 points by bluedel | 553 comments
A blog post announcing the release of a new PNG specification after two decades of stalled progress and explaining why it matters.