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A Software Engineer’s Guide to Agentic Software Development
December 9, 2025
I’ve cracked the code on breaking the eternal cycle – features win, tech debt piles up, codebase becomes ‘legacy’, and an eventual rewrite. Using coding agents at GitHub, I now...
Read MoreA pragmatic guide to LLM evals for devs
December 8, 2025
One word that keeps cropping up when I talk with software engineers who build large language model (LLM)-based solutions is “evals”. They use evaluations to verify that LLM solutions work well eno...
Read MoreResonant Computing Manifesto
December 8, 2025
And so, we find ourselves at this crossroads. Regardless of which path we choose, the future of computing will be hyper-personalized. The question is whether that personalization will be in service of...
Read MoreArchitecture, Specification, Execution: A Paradigm for AI-Accelerated Development
December 8, 2025
Source: Architecture, Specification, Execution: A Paradigm for AI-Accelerated Development...
Read MoreState of AI | OpenRouter
December 8, 2025
Categories: How Are People Using LLMs?Understanding the distribution of tasks that users perform with LLMs is central to assessing real-world demand and model–market fit. As described in the Data an...
Read MoreDesign Systems for AI: Introducing the Context Engine | by Diana Wolosin | Design Systems | Nov, 2025 | Design Systems Collective
December 8, 2025
For years, design systems have served one primary purpose: humans. They document patterns, components, decisions, and principles, all presented in formats meant for designers and engineers to read, in...
Read MoreUnderstanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl
December 5, 2025
After looking over the usages of the term, and some of the tools that claim to be implementing SDD, it seems to me that in reality, there are multiple implementation levels to it: Spec-first: A well t...
Read MoreSpec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back
December 5, 2025
Spec-Driven Development (SDD) revives the old idea of heavy documentation before coding — an echo of the Waterfall era. While it promises structure for AI-driven programming, it risks burying agilit...
Read MoreIntroducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
December 5, 2025
With AI becoming a more widely adopted interface to the web, the principles of transparency, accountability, and respect for user agency are critical to keeping it free, open, and accessible to all. A...
Read MoreStorage in the browser
December 4, 2025
What are the ways to persist data in the browser? Source: Storage in the browser | Volodymyr’s website...
Read MoreThree AI customisation concepts by Anna McPhee
December 4, 2025
I’ve narrowed this down to three concepts that feel foundational – the ones I keep coming back to when I’m trying to understand how AI systems actually work, or when I’m explaining MCP to some...
Read MoreYour URL Is Your State
December 4, 2025
This got me thinking: how often do we, as frontend engineers, overlook the URL as a state management tool? We reach for all sorts of abstractions to manage state such as global stores, contexts, and c...
Read MoreUsing the Web Monetization API for fun and profit
December 4, 2025
Web Monetization gives publishers more revenue options and audiences more ways to sustain the content they love. Support can take many forms: from a one-time contribution to a continuous, pay-as-you-b...
Read MoreHow AI Is Redefining Software Engineering with Annie Vella, Distinguished Engineer
December 3, 2025
“Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code.B...
Read MoreContext Engineering for Non Engineers
December 3, 2025
Source: Context Engineering for Non Engineers – Eleganthack...
Read MoreWhat if you don’t need MCP at all?
December 3, 2025
I’m a simple boy, so I like simple things. Agents can run Bash and write code well. Bash and code are composable. So what’s simpler than having your agent just invoke CLI tools and write c...
Read MoreWriting a good CLAUDE.md
December 2, 2025
## Creating a good CLAUDE.md file The following section provides a number of recommendations on how to write a good CLAUDE.md file following context engineering best practices. Your mileage may vary. ...
Read MoreDecember 2, 2025
In this entertaining and relatable video, two brothers experience the frustrations of downloading new apps and the consequences of not having them. They discuss the convenience and usability of apps, ...
Read MoreAgent Design Is Still Hard
December 2, 2025
TL;DR: Building agents is still messy. SDK abstractions break once you hit real tool use. Caching works better when you manage it yourself, but differs between models. Reinforcement ends up doing more...
Read MoreAlex Russell on PWAs, App Stores, and Mobile Performance – RedMonk
December 2, 2025
In this RedMonk conversation, Alex Russell, Partner Product Architect at Microsoft, discusses the state of mobile development, focusing on JavaScript performance, the state of Progressive Web Apps (PW...
Read MoreMinefield Context Protocol
December 2, 2025
One of the concepts that are gaining lots of discussion is the “MCP” which stands for Model Context Protocol. Anytime I’d ask what an MCP is, I’d usually hear it described as an API. So then, ...
Read MoreThe Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 – Infrequently Noted
December 1, 2025
Meanwhile, sites are ballooning. The median mobile page is now 2.6 MiB, blowing past the size of DOOM (2.48 MiB) in April. The 75th percentile site is now larger than two copies of DOOM, and P90+ site...
Read MoreFrank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
November 27, 2025
I am so tired of hearing about AI. Unfortunately, this is a talk about AI. I’m trying to figure out how to use generative AI as a designer without feeling like shit. I am fascinated with what it can...
Read MoreHow AI Changes Design AMA with Shamus Scott Grubb – YouTube
November 26, 2025
A shift is happening in Design… New tools. New workflows. New capabilities. Because… → As production gets automated → Thinking becomes more valuable → Creativity becomes the new premium That...
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