A personal, first-person newsletter by an Irish developer and type designer, covering software engineering topics such as Go logging design, plus type design techniques like building pangrams for kerning. It also includes occasional commentary on free speech and political pressure, such as the Amnesty International retraction.
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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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