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As an increasing part of coding, LLMs (large language models) aren't another layer of abstraction, but a level of ambiguity that you can work with to incorporate something you do know with something you don't.

No matter how you structure it, managing a to-do list is in itself a recurring item on your to-dos.

Seems reasonable to say that AI is in a railway mania bubble, the kind where there is too much hype for a technology that actually has decisive long-term value.

Three steps for a modern-day data breach: • give data you don't want someone else to know to some automated process • let that automation have a way to send that data out • ignore how this can be triggered by people you...

If you start coding as a kid, you can experience a lot of time where you're wrong about programming because you aren't ready to understand fundamental concepts.

As digital crime keeps increasing, the biggest offenders aren't doing advanced technical attacks.

The world has a lot more code now, since large language models (LLMs) can easily generate it.

This list of things computers can do probably won't surprise you: • Learn what you tell them. • Apply instructions when needed. • Remember and read numbers. • Add, subtract, multiply, divide, and round off. • Look at a...

Banning social networks isn't the same as keeping smartphones out of schools.

Say I have a human arm.

I got it almost when the first batches were being sent out.

Recently, a coding agent that deleted a whole production database explained that it "panicked instead of thinking".

Some basic steps for making software are usually described as: make it work, make it right, make it fast.

In our consumer society, we already expect to get monetized for anything that we happen to leave on the table.

Browsers are becoming invisible to the average internet person and when they gain visibility, it's usually for the wrong reasons.

Imagine a world in which you download a podcast episode and it’s just an audio file that you can save anywhere and play at any time.

We all say that something is better than nothing, but code that does something has a special way of being worse than code that does nothing.

Building a product for external customers requires a broader perspective than creating solutions for internal teams.

If you take it at face value, hourly-based billing makes no sense for anyone.

The power to change how an app works in real-time is an underestimated feature of the web.

Things go wrong with tech all the time, in fact, "tech is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet" as defined by the great sci-fi author Douglas Adams.

Disclaimer: People in the Rust Foundation would like you to know that, although the title of this article contains the word Rust, its author is not a part of the Rust Foundation (trademark policy draft available here)....

Cross-site-scripting (XSS) is often identified in web development as an issue with user-submitted content that allows for unexpected HTML/CSS/JS to run in the context of other users.

The kind of meditation I've made a habit of is pretty useless.

Even if people don't go out as much these days, physical addresses are still very much recognizable to us.

Niche communities have an upside to being niche: you can (and maybe should) explore options that don't need to scale very much.

When e-commerce began to flourish, the concept of the Long Tail was used to describe how digital businesses can focus on a wide variety of products or services with almost no customers.

We may not talk much about how people sit on the fence when it comes to environmental issues, but we're probably aware that we're letting ourselves fall short.

Advent of Code is a seasonal series of daily programming puzzles that can be solved in any language you choose to use.

No matter when you came to be online, you've had the opportunity to encounter what I like to call digital craftsmanship.

Real-time web interactions are an interesting challenge that stays relevant as developers gravitate between single-page applications, server-rendered pages and everything in between.

I imagine that a lot of people have experienced much more online events in the past year.

Passwords are a great solution and a huge problem.

When we arrive late to a meeting where people expect us to say something, most of us listen for a while before trying to contribute.

Due to personal circumstances that forced me to pull the trigger on my decision to eventually get a good ultrabook, I recently got the M1 Macbook Air.

Events going online has become one of the definitive trends of the decade.

One of the ways through which Apple has posted new records in their services revenue is by having you buy a developer account and then forcing you to make other people buy developer accounts.

Back at the day job, we have your usual PHP code base that runs a lot of the business and we needed an upgrade from 5 to 7.

Playable on-demand broadcasts (podcasts) are a simple case of people using open technologies to come together over a new medium that should be accessible to everyone.

It's an understatement to say that humans are complicated creatures.

If we could start counting mobile apps in the stores, we would probably see that many of them are, first and foremost, a branding exercise that the open web cannot satisfy.

One of the best things about JavaScript nowadays is that you can just type "MDN" next to whatever you want to know in your search box and you will get very nice documentation from the Mozilla Developer Network.

About half a dozen years ago, I was between jobs and had a whole month of August to invest in whatever I wanted to do.

Despite having its flaws, real-time chat has become an essential part of my day job.

Adjacent problems that weigh you down as you tackle some tech challenges are often as important as that specific tech.

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.