A Month of Chat-Oriented ProgrammingOr when did you last change your mind about something?Nick Radcliffe. 12th November 2025. TL;DR: I spent a solid month “pair programming” with Claude Code, tryi...
Five months ago, my lifelong profession of software development changed completely. My profession was born in the 1940s, created to help fight demons. Our first encounter with the strange new angels o...
Some concepts are easy to grasp in the abstract. Boiling water: apply heat and wait. Others you really need to try. You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one. Ther...
2025 is a strange time to start a newsletter about web technology. The past four editions of WTN have focused on the intersection of the web and AI, because frankly that’s where most of the exci...
We saw this cycle with jQuery in the past, and we’re seeing it again now with React. We’ll see it with whatever comes next. Success breeds standardization, standardization breeds inertia, and iner...
A programming language is the single most expensive choice a company makes, yet we treat it like a technical debate. After watching this mistake bankrupt dozens of companies and hurt hundreds more, I...
