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I wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testing library. Last …

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I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …

Programming as Theory Building - Peter Naur. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong—how come some …

just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands - alternative to make

The product of software development is not code but a mental model, a theory: a specific way of explaining the world.

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.

Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software. Much software is now provided as a service, and is typically deployed continuously (CD, continuous deployment), surrounded by enough automated testing (CI, continuous integration) that we can be reasonably sure that a new revision is likely to at least work to some extent.

Keeping your codebase searchable will make your maintenance life easier in the long run.

Aider is an impressive open source local coding chat assistant terminal application, developed by Paul Gauthier (founding CTO of [Inktomi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi) back in [1996-2000](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulgauthier/details/experience/)). I tried it out today, using an …

Claude Engineer is an interactive command-line interface (CLI) that leverages the power of Anthropic's Claude-3.5-Sonnet model to assist with software development tasks. This tool combines the capabilities of a large language model with practical file system operations and web search functionality. - Doriandarko/claude-engineer

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016 · FACEBOOK This was one of those posts that I threw together, thought nothing of, & then it blew up. Until recently this was my most-read post ever. From years [decades] of watching master programmers, I have observed certain common patterns in their workflows. From years [decades] of coaching skilled journeyman programmers, I have observed the absence of those patterns. I have seen what a difference introducing the patterns can make.

Pretend you have a really great programming day.   You only have to attend a few meetings, have only a few off-topic conversations, don'...