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Effective commit messages simplify the code review process and aid long-term code maintenance. Unfortunately, commit messages don’t get much respect, so the world is littered with useless messages like Fix bug or Update UI. There’s no widespread agreement about what makes a ...

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My personal projects are in Git, but not on a ‘forge’ style website. I talk about why, and how to interact with them.

And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S). I recently shipped some updates to my blog. Through the design/development process, I had some insights which made me question my knee-jerk reaction to building pieces of a page as JS-powered interactions on top of the e...

JavaScript exception handling can be exploited to create non-linear code flow that confuses analysis.

In my opinion, one of the most important ideas in product design is to avoid the “nightmare bicycle”.

Imagine a bicycle where the product manager said: “people don’t get math so we can’t have numbered gears. We need labeled buttons for gravel mode...

With the best intentions, the United Kingdom engineered a housing and energy shortage.

We hebben hele discussies over onze enorme afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse clouds, maar waar hebben we het precies over? En zijn we voor alle soorten clouds even afhankelijk? De cloud in soorten en maten Public cloud, private cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, IaC, CaaS, waar hebben we het allemaal over. Om te beginnen, de verwarring ligt niet aan jou. Al deze zaken lopen inderdaad door elkaar heen, en veel belangrijke spelers gebruiken deze termen echt op verwarrende manieren.

What open source can learn from the climate change movement.

“Are you going to add AI writing to Yarn Spinner?” It’s a question I hear almost weekly these days. Whether at game development conferences, online, or during meetings, there’s an assumption that every tool is racing to implement some form of generative AI. I understand the curiosity—we’re living through an unprecedented wave of AI hype, and there’s genuine confusion about where these technologies might fit into creative processes. So I thought I’d share some thoughts on why we’re taking a different path.

It took me a few days to get back to normal after returning from my trip to Shenzhen last week. Overall, pretty decent trip - I met with 1…

As part of my work toward an upcoming post about a lost piece of very obscure Mac history that has finally been found, I’ve been playing around with old Apple-branded SCSI hard drives made by Quantum and Conner in the 1990s. What I’m about to describe is already common knowledge in the vintage computing world, […]

Matt Biilman, CEO of Netlify, published an interesting piece called “Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters” where he argues the coming importance of a new “X” (experience) in software: the agent experience, meaning the experience your users’ AI agents will have as aut...

Op veel plekken woedt nu de discussie: gaan we naar Signal, want WhatsApp is van Facebook/Meta, en dat zijn Amerikanen die ons overal volgen & met wat ze daarmee leren onze verkiezingen en maatschappijen manipuleren. Echt een nare tent. Foto van Dima Solomin op Unsplash Andere varianten zijn, moeten we weg bij Twitter? Moeten we andere email gaan gebruiken, want we willen niet dat we 100% afhankelijk zijn van Amerika, Donald Trump en Elon Musk?

De stukjes overheid die hun bestanden en mail nog niet op Amerikaanse servers hebben gezet, maken grotendeels enorme haast om dat nu alsnog te doen. Men lijkt een druk te ervaren, “want er is geen alternatief” en (ietwat bevreemdend) “we zijn met 150.000 werkplekken (!) te klein om nog iets zelf te kunnen beheren”. Het is nogal een besluit om je over te leveren aan Amerika nu. Het is voor veel buitenstaanders (“burgers”) overigens al lang een onbegrijpelijk idee om dit nu nog te doen.

Why ten years ago I quit my passion as a job to follow my passions as just passions.

Rick Rubin has an interview with Woody Harrelson on his podcast Tetragrammaton. Right at the beginning Woody talks about his experience acting and how he’s had roles that did’t turn out very well. He says sometimes he comes away from those experiences feeling dirty, like “I ...

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