Technical project write-ups on open-source tooling for photo archives and Lightroom repair, plus verified and optimized computation of combinatorial counts in Rust and OxCaml. Issues give detailed methodology, careful caveats about what results do and do not show, and links to MIT-licensed code and manuals.
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Kent Beck writes about software design, testing and programming technique, framed as ways to improve human relationships among developers. Issues mix practical refactoring and testing advice with reflections on working with AI coding tools.
Developer blog on building OpenMU, an open-source MMORPG game server, covering architecture decisions, performance work and new features. Readers get detailed engineering write-ups with code-level reasoning and measured results.
Gergely Orosz covers Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders, with reported detail on company practices and incidents. The sampled issues cover Anthropic's custom source control, internal vibe-coding tools at Ramp and Stripe, and the Firebase outage.
Weekly lessons that explain one AI engineering concept at a time, such as transformer internals, LLM inference serving and agent-based bug hunting. Each issue pairs concrete numbers and worked examples with a paid script readers can run themselves.
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