A detailed walkthrough of my current workflow for using LLms to build software, from brainstorming through planning and execution.

When agile experimentation at startups becomes a p-hacking trap

A/B testing pitfalls

Check out the more intuitive Bayesian method

Nobody cares about security. There. I said it. I said the thing everyone feels, some people think, but very few have the temerity to say out loud. But before you call me...

“The problem with security is that it’s impossible to measure your ROI. Even if we can measure the cost of a security incident (not an easy task) it’s almost impossible to measure the likelihood of preventing them (hence ROI) based on different security solutions. […]”

“Lesson 1: The only two things that make people buy a product are “discomfort” and “convenience.” Discomfort will win every time.

Lesson 2: There are only three things a business cares about: Increasing revenue, reducing cost, and removing risk. You need to speak to (at least) one of those things to make your case.

Lesson 3: Know what’s important. Which systems does the business consider critical to its continued financial success? Those are the ones you’ll want to focus on in terms of risk assessments.”

Slides and notes for the Being Glue talk.

TCP may not always be reliable | The two-generals problem | Nagle's algorithm | TCP_NODELAY

"Wheel of reincarnation"

I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.

NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?

A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.

Openssl Heartbleed

What's about the the RISC-V and why it came to life. An interesting comparison of pre-exsisting ISAs.

TCP socket programming

Switching away from radians makes code simpler, faster, and more precise.

Aka bump allocators

Good history summary of graphics programming.

On today's show, I'm talking to Richard Hipp about surviving becoming core infrastructure for the world. SQLite is everywhere. It's in your web browser, it's in your phone, it's probably in your car, and it's definitely in commercial planes. It's where your iMessages and WhatsApp messages are stored, and if you do a find on your computer for *.db, you'll... […]