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How I Almost Got Hacked By A 'Job Interview' (blog.daviddodda.com)
Python as a Configuration Language (via Starlark) (openrun.dev)
Systems Software in the Large (oxide.computer)
What’s your go-to strategy for giving engineers access to production?
No Silver Bullets: Why Understanding Software Cycle Time is Messy, Not Magic (johnflournoy.science)
Unfair Flips World Record Strategy (graham.build)
How to Have Productive Conversations About AI (zed.dev)
What Dynamic Typing Is For (unplannedobsolescence.com)
GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development (thenewstack.io)
Examples are the best documentation (rakhim.exotext.com)
Intel's Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source (phoronix.com)
How I Learned to Code (using Japanese Method) (blog.stackademic.com)
You're doing Rails wrong (bananacurvingmachine.com)
devenv 1.10: monorepo Nix support with devenv.yaml imports - devenv (devenv.sh)
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Reality (youtube.com)
Should You Use Upper Bound Version Constraints? (iscinumpy.dev)
Test your README in a fresh VM (shkspr.mobi)
Ratcheting with Postgres CONSTRAINT (andrewjudson.com)
An agentic terminal notepad that's integral to your docs (visr.sh)
Seeing like a software company (seangoedecke.com)
Birth of Prettier (blog.vjeux.com)
Premature Generalization (youtu.be)
Stone Tools: Exploring retro productivity software from the 8/16-bit era (stonetools.ghost.io)
WireGuard topologies for self-hosting at home (garrido.io)
Risk Rolls Downhill (corecursive.com)
Nine HTTP Edge Cases (blog.dochia.dev)
Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
How Engineers Operationalize Machine Learning (arxiv.org)
[RFC] LLVM AI tool policy: start small, no slop (discourse.llvm.org)
Who's Hiring? Q4 2025