Software engineering is about managing complexity

There is a misunderstanding about software engineering that AI is making increasingly visible: we tend to confuse writing code with building software. There is some overlap in certain aspects, but they’re not the same thing. Writing code means translating an idea into instructions a computer can execute. Building software means deciding which instructions should exist … Devamını oku

507 Mechanical Movements

Ah, yes… well, unfortunately we do not haveallthe animations working yet, but we do have quite a few. Look for the color thumbnails. They identify the completed animations. Use theprevandnextlinks (above right) to browse the thumbnail pages. As time goes on, we’ll be adding more until all 507 are complete. Click the Facebook “Subscribe” or … Devamını oku

Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode

So,Emacs 31has been released, and a lot of shiny new stuff is there, ready for us to play with. You probably heard of this newmarkdown-ts-modeand decided to check it out. And guess what? On Emacs version31, this is marked as an experimental mode. What does this mean? Should you use it or not? Is this … Devamını oku

Harness Engineering

Harness engineering is the practice of surrounding AI-assisted code generation with deterministic tooling, agent-based review, and periodic entropy checks so that AI-generated code stays correct and coherent over time. This document explains where the idea came from, what it consists of, and how this plugin implements it. The term comes from Birgitta Boeckeler’s article on … Devamını oku

Show HN: Pause – weekly curated 1:1 coffee matches for London professionals

For the restless, the curious, and the tired of scrolling.A physical network for the city. Skip the small talk. We match you with someone in your neighbourhood for a focused 45-minute conversation. No agendas, just presence. Learn ceramic glazing in exchange for Figma shortcuts. A marketplace of human capability, minus the transaction. Weekly check-ins for … Devamını oku

Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS

Maybe an analogy could be about using metal detectors as a layer to reduce bank robberies. A gun in a good guy’s hands is a good thing to prevent robberies. Guns in a bad guy’s hands are a bad thing to prevent robberies. Paypal knows you have a gun but they don’t know if you’re … Devamını oku

Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck

A 25 cmopen-sourcebiped you train yourself with reinforcement learning. Playable out of the box. Trained in sim, deployed on the real robot.This is the simulated twin the ducks were trained on. Fun out of the box. Yours to retrain. Every behaviour is a policy you canretrain on your own machine. Behaviours are learned in physics … Devamını oku

The Dutch are filling gas wells with cement

Readers will be familiar with the German nuclear phase-out. The Merkel and Scholz governments prematurely shut down twenty gigawatts of nuclear power. Those plants provided energy for38 millionhouseholds forless than twenty percentof the cost of gas. The Scholz government closed one power plant thirteen years before its expected retirement date. But few know that the … Devamını oku

Pnpm 12.0

pnpm 12 is stable. It is a rewrite of pnpm in Rust, and it is deliberately not a migration: the commands, flags, settings, and lockfile format of pnpm 11 all carry over, andthe documentationdescribes both versions. The short list of things that genuinely behave differently is inWhat’s different in pnpm 12. This post covers what … Devamını oku

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

An AI system that acts as your company’s virtual executive team — a senior advisor with Harvard MBA-level knowledge, customized for your specific business. A walkthrough of Open Executive in action —watch on YouTube. Developed bysentelabs.aiOpen Executive provides a single coherent executive voice backed by eight specialist AI agents: All responses come from one consistent … Devamını oku