pcloadletter

I'm a fan of simulating counterintuitive statistics.

Everything seems to move fast these days and apparently nostalgia is no exception.

One of the worst aspects of tech hype is the onslaught of useless features.

If you were a software developer prior to 2024, you probably used Stack Overflow.

I have seen a lot of cool, open source projects posted online.

"Ship it!"

I saw a cool version of the Monty Hall game here recently: https://monty.donk.systems.

Have you ever searched for something on Google and found the first one, two, or three blog posts to be utter nonsense?

With the growing number of supply chain attacks in the npm ecosystem (for example, Shai-Hulud), package managers like pnpm and yarn have added a very handy configuration option that prevents the install of new packages: minimumReleaseAge and npmMinimalAge…

One concern I have heard from AI naysayers is that AI slop will make code reviews nearly impossible.

I'm kind of writing this to "past" me, who I assume is "current" you for a number of folks out there.

The older I get, the more I dislike clever code.

Here we go again: I'm so tired of crypto web3 LLMs.

I have noticed a trend in a handful of products I've worked on at big tech companies.

Oh no, not another agile article.

I was just feeling pretty good—I published my article about RSS and it's being pretty well-received.

I think a lot about information and information consumption.

My theory is that some performance consultants got paid a lot of money one day for a single word: "impact."