#softwaredevelopment

AI-Generated Open Source Suite ArtCraft Clones Adobe… | BestHub

A developer used Anthropic's Opus 5.5 and Rust to build ArtCraft, an open-source clone of Adobe Creative Cloud's seven apps, then released GridCraft, WordCraf…

Agiles Arbeiten in der Praxis — Das Buch

Agiles Arbeiten ohne Buzzwords: 34 Kapitel über Fundament, Menschen, Praxis und Kanban. Von Thomas Esders, kostenlos zu lesen.

Expert asterisks

Watching discussions happening online, I see a frequent unfortunate tic I’ll call the Expert Asterisk. A beginner is asking for help, and experts are answering.

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.

When The Debugger Lies With Stale Cache Values

In a recent blog post by [Daniel Mangum] he goes over a scenario observed while debugging the Cortex-M33-based nRF54LM20, reading and writing values while running through a few scenarios. After ini…

Amazon Web Services

Wrong, not broken | Amazon Web Services

Software operations has always asked one question: Is it broken? AI agents change that. Here’s the shift toward measuring correctness at the level of the run, and the thinking behind Amazon CloudWatch Omni.

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Keep if clauses side-effect free

Corrode Rust Consulting

We Have Named Arguments at Home | corrode Rust Consulting

Steve Klabnik recently wrote about named arguments, optional arguments, default arguments, function overloading, and why most of that design space has historically made him nervous in Rust. I agree with Steve. In fact, I think I agree slightly more s…

The year of internal tools

How Geocodio went from bash scripts to full internal apps, the system that keeps them maintainable, and where we draw the line between building and buying.

Agents: The new, New Kingmakers

Well over a decade ago, hundreds of conversations over a period of years crystalized into a book called The New Kingmakers. The core thesis of the book was simple: a constituency long thought to be powerless had become instead the real power behind the throne, the anointer of queens and kings. For decades, developers that

No Bullshit Agile - Agiles Arbeiten in der Praxis

Was LLMs beweisbar leisten, und wo die Belege aufhören

Vier Mal wurde gewürfelt, vier Mal kam etwas anderes heraus. Was LLMs in der Softwareentwicklung beweisbar leisten und wo die Belege aufhören.

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern

Using the wiki on GitHub makes life more difficult for your users, and you as a maintainer. Use the `/docs` folder and GitHub Pages instead and keep your docs in sync with code

Laravel News

Laravel Scalpel Scans for Filesystem Intrusion Evidence

Laravel Scalpel scans Laravel filesystems for rogue PHP files, obfuscated backdoors, altered directives, environment issues, and file changes.

Release v0.29.0 · warp-tech/warpgate

NoteWould you kindly spend 5 minutes to give your feedback on your deployment and what you'd like to see in Warpgate? Multiple changes in this release have been proposed by users like you through t...

C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour

Let’s start with a question! Is this program well-defined? 1 2 3 4 int main() { while (true) ; } If you said yes, you’d be wrong — at least before C++26. A while (true); loop with no side effects used to be undefined behaviour. Compilers were free to assume it terminates, and some — Clang in particular — would optimize it away entirely, with spectacular consequences: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 // https://godbolt.org/z/WYMxxeW1T #include <iostream> int main() { while (true) ; } void unreachable() {

The NLnet Labs Blog

Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI

By Alex Band Over the last year, we have seen the profound effects Large Language Models (LLMs) have on our open-source software work at NLnet Labs. These can be grouped into two main areas: community contributions and security reports. Before we dive into this topic, let me first give

Pulse: A New VHDL Simulator

With VHDL being arguably more deterministic and bullet-proof than Verilog, it’s good to see another open source VHDL simulator joining the fray that is not a variation of ghdl. Written by [Ós…

When Anyone Can Build Software, Who Decides What Not to Build?

Generating code has become cheap; deciding what should become permanent has not.