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Small Programming Tricks Matter
Day to day, I think a surprising amount of engineering productivity comes from small nuggets of knowledge: being aware that a language feature exists; knowing that an unexplained tcp delay is probably related to the TCPNODELAY setting and Nagle’s algorithm; knowing the right git incantation to get out of a pickle; or knowing a trick with sed to rewrite a file. In one sense, this is self-evident: anything you know is going to be made up of smaller pieces of knowledge. Of…
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Aleksandar Filipovski, 2026-09-16 See also: John Salvatier’s excellent blog, Reality has a surprising amount of detail I read a comment somewhere that stuck with me, that went something like this:
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How we turned my voice into a skill
Francesco Castronuovo documents building a writing-voice skill from small experiments rather than cloning old posts—keeping uncertainties visible so AI assistance stays attributable and editable.
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How To Write With An LLMTwo simple rules that let LLMs streamline writing without pasteurizing it
Thomas and Erin Ptacek argue that LLMs can improve writing if you keep them from inventing voice: draft yourself first, then use the model surgically—and never let it become the author of record.
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Maker's Schedule, Manager's ScheduleOriginal essay: July 2009 · AI-written directory summary
An explanation of why meetings can impose very different costs on managers and makers. Paul Graham contrasts appointment-driven schedules with the uninterrupted stretches needed for programming and other creative work.
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Code Scans turns broad engineering goals into concrete improvements across your codebase. Tell Devin what you want to achieve, and it investigates what needs to change, evaluates the findings, and turns them into pull requests.
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Matt Kirkland makes the case that oversized paperbacks can and should be cut into smaller, more manageable volumes. He walks through a simple ten-step process using an X-Acto knife, manila folders, and white glue to split and rebind a book like the 850-page Lonesome Dove into readable chunks.
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Principles of Anchor EngineeringBuilding software at agent speed with human judgement
Kari Wilhelm argues that AI coding agents make individuals faster but often leave teams stuck, and proposes Anchor Engineering: capture the durable decisions, interfaces and invariants in an 'Anchor Book' so agents can reason through the rest while humans keep judgement on what must stay true.
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Pair programming: still a good idea
Artur Sapek makes the case that pair programming with coding agents remains underrated—why sitting with an agent in a shared problem still beats solo prompting for learning and quality.
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Stop Pushing to Find Out: Meet the Latchkey CLI
latchkey run packs your working tree, runs any command on a fresh Ubuntu runner with self-healing built in, streams the logs back, and exits with the command's own exit code. What it does, why we built it, and how to hand it to your coding agent.
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Kellan Elliott-McCrea reflects on management as catalysis—lowering activation energy for teams—rather than another fashionable org-chart experiment destined for the tech-blog receipts pile.
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Making math automatic with Mathy
Gabe Mays introduces Mathy, a free mobile/web drill tool for automatic math practice complementary to Math Academy—built for quick sessions without Anki friction or an account requirement.
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Indie developer and poet Joel Auterson argues for making creative work anyway amid AI-driven creative devaluation—carrying on with craft for its own sake when markets and motivation feel collapsing.
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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
LibreOffice 26.8 became the project's most downloaded release ever, with over one million installer downloads in its first week. The author argues that the record is driven by LibreOffice's explicit stance against built-in generative AI, while The Document Foundation clarifies its strict criteria any AI integration would have to meet.
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Angel Espinoza on why a per-project CLAUDE.md (plain rules for the AI assistant) often beats repeating context every session—write the rules down once, not every time.
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Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
Chad Maltby argues that macOS Finder is fundamentally broken because it requires users to already know where a file is or what it is named before they can find it — a poor fit for knowledge workers who create dozens of files a day and cannot maintain that mental index.
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An essay arguing that handmade, attributable craft is the lasting advantage as AI-generated content floods the web—and why authenticity compounds while slop does not.
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Building a product in the age of AI
Joao Carvalho describes building Open Poker after hours with coding agents: owning product direction, splitting development and production agents, a three-hour end-to-end rehearsal, and controls that survive model churn.
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Paul Bakker argues that writing is thinking: use AI for coding and research, but draft your own prose so you keep the judgment that tools cannot replace.
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Mastering Layout Engines in Graphviz: Dot vs Neato vs Twopi vs Circo
Compare Graphviz layout engines Dot, Neato, Twopi, and Circo — when each shines, how overlaps happen, and how to pick an algorithm for readable architecture diagrams.
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