A personal newsletter by Boris Berenberg offering practical advice on vibe coding, including how to scope projects to finish them and how to keep fundamentals tight as tools change. Also covers lessons from organizing fan events around a live show, with concrete planning and logistics tips.
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VarOps is an AI-focused newsletter built on real testing and hard-won practical lessons. Recent issues benchmark Mistral's Timestral forecasting models on a CPU, critically examine coding-agent benchmark claims, and introduce tools for checkpointing and explaining agent-driven code changes.
Weekly updates from the creator of Have I Been Pwned covering data breaches, cybercrime arrests, and his own development work on the service. Readers get a first-hand, opinionated view of the security landscape, including commentary on AI hype versus real-world breach evidence.
Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, writes personal essays on programming, online communities and the human side of technology. Recent issues cover Stack Overflow's legacy in the age of LLMs, a conference talk, and his new TWiT show.
Ryan Singer, author of Shape Up, shares practical guidance on defining software before hiring developers, separating framing (choosing work and getting buy-in) from shaping (specifying mechanics for building). Issues include a primer on documenting business logic and a real-world end-to-end Shape Up case study.
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