Is the harness driving the developer or is it the other way around? 🤔
Leanpub@leanpub.bsky.social · 3w agoBecoming a Harness-Driven Developer: Building Reliable Systems in the Age of AI-Generated Code by Miloš Kecman 📖 on Leanpub! AI can generate code faster than ever. Link: leanpub.com/becoming-a-h... #books #ebooks #leanpublishing
In search for a new terminal that doesn't get into my way I found Kitty and I think it's going to stay. Integrates well with tmux and fish. That's all I ask for.
Genies give you a degraded facsimile of the mediocre code they trained on. Two axes: features (works or it doesn't) and futures (optionality). The genie drifts down-and-to-the-left, plausible "success" on broken code. Awareness is step one: newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/genie-tarpit
Reduce the pain and suffering associated with waiting for other people to get out of your way. You have a task to finish!! blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/po...
Remaining Calm, Even When Blocked By Others — The jbrains Blog
Getting Things Done calls them open loops: unresolved tasks where you're blocked because you are waiting for someone else. Open Loops are a common source of significant, painful stress and worry. Fort...
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Ugh... you say this, my cheeky clanker, but you're gonna do it again, aren't you?
This is why I'm experimenting with lode coding. I'm not ready for cognitive surrender. fjzeit.github.io/coding/lode-...
Getting Started with Lode Coding
Note: This article was updated on 27 Jan 2026 to cover a stepwise improvement in the approach. The lode-overview.md has been removed and replaced with a system prompt which you can either append on th...
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Kuba@kuba.zalas.pl · 2mo ago"[..] Delegation produces surrender. Cooperation produces what he calls mutual amplification: a loop where your prompts sharpen the model’s output, which sharpens your next prompts, which sharpens your model of the problem." addyosmani.com/blog/cogniti...
"[..] Delegation produces surrender. Cooperation produces what he calls mutual amplification: a loop where your prompts sharpen the model’s output, which sharpens your next prompts, which sharpens your model of the problem." addyosmani.com/blog/cogniti...
Cognitive Surrender
Cognitive offloading is delegating to the AI and still owning the answer. Cognitive surrender is when the AI's output quietly becomes your output and there i...
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Most devs, when they say "I refactored my code" just mean "I rewrote my code". Join me for quite probably my final Refactoring workshop on Sat June 20th and become one of the 1% who know what the word actually means in practice. £99 + VAT. Bargain! www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...
Register – Essential Code Craft - Refactoring – Zoom
Essential Code Craft - Refactoring – Zoom, Multiple dates and times - Tues June 16th & Sat June 20th £99 + UK VAT Refactoring is a foundational skill for software developer...
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So it's out there that - with great sadness - I'm winding down my training business & looking for a new challenge But it's not quite over yet. I have 3 *final* workshops for developers (and, in one case, non-devs, too) coming up - all on special offer 2day codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/a...
A Car Crash In Slow Motion
Since I’m among friends, I hope I can be open with you. I started Codemanship 17 years ago in my late 30s, as a response to being asked by a recruiter for the gazillionth time “Why are …
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Well, here we are finally - the sound of one door closing and the end of a 17-year journey. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/a...
A Car Crash In Slow Motion
Since I’m among friends, I hope I can be open with you. I started Codemanship 17 years ago in my late 30s, as a response to being asked by a recruiter for the gazillionth time “Why are …
codemanship.wordpress.com
I've been using this approach for the past few weeks and it's been brilliant so far. I'm grateful (and relieved) to have found it while still trying to figure out my own strategy. fjzeit.github.io/coding/lode-...
Getting Started with Lode Coding
Note: This article was updated on 27 Jan 2026 to cover a stepwise improvement in the approach. The lode-overview.md has been removed and replaced with a system prompt which you can either append on th...
fjzeit.github.io
I'm sorry i doubted you GitHub and tried to jump to bitbucket first and gitlab later. What was I thinking? They're unstable half baked toys compared to you.
When I start test-driving a project my actions seem to be chaotic at first. An order soon emerges and my actions start being more focused and intentional. When I start a project without writing tests my actions seem to be focused and intentional at first. A chaos soon unfolds bringing regret. #tdd
Turn your PHP app into a standalone binary. No PHP interpreter, Composer, etc needed on the target machines! It's actually surprisingly quite simple: 1. Box: makes a phar 2. concat with micro.sfx from static-php-cli Done! Read more about it here: gnugat.github.io/2026/03/25/t... #PHP
I'm experimenting with AI Assistants to get them to do projects my way. My approach is document how I'd like things done while I do them. Then I revert the change and let the assistant do it.
Role-playing - objects are more players of their roles than instances of their types. -- Sandi Metz #oop
"You can't build the right product if you can't build the product right. If you can build the thing right, you can live long enough to find the right thing." ronjeffries.com/xprog/articl...
Build it right to build the right thing
This is RonJeffries.com, the combination of new articles, XProgramming, SameElephant, and perhaps even some new items never before contemplated. <br/>Copyright © 1998-forever Ronald E Jeffries
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As always, it's great to listen to @jbrains.ca. Are integrated tests a scam? youtu.be/j0NjFsb-at8
Are Integrated Tests a Scam? TDD, Architecture, Fast Feedback – J. B. Rainsberger | The Marco Show
YouTube video by IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE
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Mocks... Mocks everywhere... In this video Emily made me feel it's ok not to fight this particular instance of semantic diffusion. youtu.be/RvKPOjlQKyM?...
We Need to Stop Calling Everything a Mock!
YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering
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We Tried Baseball and It Didn't Work ronjeffries.com/xprog/articl...
We Tried Baseball and It Didn't Work
This is RonJeffries.com, the combination of new articles, XProgramming, SameElephant, and perhaps even some new items never before contemplated. <br/>Copyright © 1998-forever Ronald E Jeffries
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"You can draw a line around any part of your code and call it anything you like, but only when you have to maintain the tests do boundaries become real." “Hexagonal Architecture Explained” Alistair Cockburn & Juan Manuel Garrido de Paz #hexagonalarchitecture #portsandadapters #testing
The Future of Software Development is Software Developers - or why we won't be replaced by #ai anytime soon - by @jasongorman.bsky.social codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/t...
The Future of Software Development is Software Developers
I’ve been a computer programmer all-told for 43 years. That’s more than half the entire history of electronic programmable computers. In that time, I’ve seen a lot of things chang…
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Me in 2005: let me code this whole system over the weekend. Me in 2015: let me glue these open-source projects together to confirm if the idea is worth doing. Me in 2025: let me spend a couple of hours creating a spreadsheet so I don't have to write the app.
Me in 2005: let me code this whole system over the weekend. Me in 2015: let me glue these open-source projects together to confirm if the idea is worth doing. Me in 2025: let me spend a couple of hours creating a spreadsheet so I don't have to write the app.
“duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction” - Sandi Metz in “All the little things” at RailsConf 2014 The quote is often put out of context to support the idea it’s always better to postpone the abstraction until there’s enough duplication. #SoftwareDevelopment #oop
The day hasn't passed yet and I think Ghostty will also replace tmux for me.
Kuba@kuba.zalas.pl · 11mo ago/me installs ghostty
