Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
That’s right — this little device is what stood between me and the ability to run an even older piece…
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Automatic Programming
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Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
beautiful-mermaid Render Mermaid diagrams as beautiful SVGs or ASCII art Ultra-fast, fully themeable, zero DOM dependencies. Built for the AI…
Adaptive6 emerges from stealth to reduce enterprise cloud waste (and it’s already optimizing Ticketmaster)
Carl Franzen January 28, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with Nano Banana Pro via Fal.aiThe generative AI era has sped everything…
[Meta] Mods, when will you get on top of the constant AI slop posts?
They never do well in terms of Karma or engagement. All they do is take a spot in the feed…
Satya Nadella at Davos: a masterclass in saying everything while promising nothing
That "30-40% productivity gain" claim for GitHub Copilot? Independent research from Uplevel found a 41% increase in bugs introduced into…
Claude Code just got updated with one of the most-requested user features
FeaturedCarl Franzen January 15, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3 Pro Image / Nano Banana ProAnthropic’s open source…
Ken Thompson rewrote his code in real-time. A federal court said he co-created MP3. So why has no one heard of James D. Johnston?
In 1988, James D. Johnston at Bell Labs and Karlheinz Brandenburg in Germany independently invented perceptual audio coding – the…
LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
LLMs are an incredibly powerful tool, that do amazing things. But even so, they aren’t as fantastical as their creators…
Interview Coder Leaks Full Names, Addresses and Companies of All SWEs Who Cheated
Interview Coder just betrayed their users and leaked their users’ full names and where they got offers on their home…
Replit boss: CEOs can vibe code their own prototypes and don’t have to beg engineers for help anymore
This is a bit of a vent: I've said it before and I will die on this hill: vibe coding…
The Best Line Length is 88
The Best Line Length What’s a good maximum line length for your coding standard? programmingpythonsaccades Thursday August 07, 2025 What’s…
Software craftsmanship is dead
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I canceled my programming book deal
Austin Z. Henley Associate Teaching Professor Carnegie Mellon University azhenley@cmu.edu @austinzhenley github/AZHenley Home | Publications | Teaching | Blog I…
Writing Windows 95 software in 2025
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Rich Hickey: Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability
Rewatched this recently. Still one of the clearest explanations of why systems fail as complexity accumulates. would like to know…
LLMs Are Not Fun
orib.dev: LLMS Are Not Fun I got into programming because it let me turn thought into reality. If I could…
I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants
I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified…
Programming Books I’ll be reading in 2026.
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i wrote a code editor in C and now i’m a changed man
I never thought I would share this, but here I am. I was writing a lot of code, a bunch…