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tonyward.dev

Code as the source of truth

With AI tooling, code being the source of truth just makes sense.

petdex.dev

Petdex

Open-source animated pets for coding agents. Browse pets, preview their animations, and install one with a single command.

addyosmani.com

Audit your agent files

A practical guide to auditing what your coding agent still needs.

martinfowler.com

Maybe we shouldn’t be reviewing all this code

Or, perhaps the problem isn’t that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we’ve been using code review to solve the wrong problems

yegge.ai

Seats and sunsets

Understanding agent orchestration economics, model capability thresholds, token burn rates, and structural failure modes.

sidebranch.dev

Sidebranch: worktree visual diffing

Review PRs from inside your running app: switch branches from an in-page widget and compare worktrees side by side.

earendil.com

If coding is solved, what now?

Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.

dontasktoask.com

Don’t ask to ask, just ask

If you're not willing to do the work to solve your problem, why should we?

people.kernel.org

Creepy crawlies

Bots consume 20% of CPU capacity by rendering HTML commits instead of cloning repos.

pipshea.net

The critical design engineering manifesto

A remix of the 2011 Critical Engineering Manifesto for Design Engineers — guardrails for inhabiting the space between software design and eng.

seangoedecke.com

You have to beat the models at something

You’re not doing yourself any favors by pretending that LLMs can’t actually write code and it’s all just a scam.

ajwaxman.com

Software for one

Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.

cssunits.com

CSS Units

A complete interactive reference to every CSS measurement unit. From the basics of px and rem to the nuances of svh, dvh, and cqw.

about.gitlab.com

When code is abundant

Producing code is getting cheap. Trusting it is not. Why enterprises need a durable layer of context, verification, and governance around AI.

ilyabirman.net

Vibe coding and quality

Just last year, vibe coding seemed like a toy. Today I think that high quality is achievable only through vibe coding

sunilpai.dev

The task isn’t the job

A new role, and some questions I want to build my way through.

play.ertdfgcvb.xyz

Play

A browser-based live-code environment with text-only output.

blog.ronbronson.com

Agent experience needs failure affordances

A system that operates with some autonomy needs a way to tell the rest of the system when ordinary control is no longer adequate.

eigendrum.com

Eigendrum

Draw any shape and hear it as a drum. Every frequency is solved from your outline with finite elements, never sampled.

blog.florianherrengt.com

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

The economic shift that values human architectural judgment over execution speed.