Software Engineering (36)

Practices, principles, and craft of software engineering.

35 notes • 1 video

2026

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Sep 04

NOTE AI makes pull requests less central in open-source contribution

Software Engineering #software-engineering #pull-request #ai
Aug 31

VIDEO How Google Manages Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Monorepo

Software Engineering #monorepo #google #version-control
Aug 18

NOTE Perform gradual frontend rollouts with a cookie and random number

Software Engineering #software-engineering #cookie-based-rollout #feature-flag-alternative
Jul 24

NOTE Modern SaaS Value Shifts From Core Features To Essential Plumbing

Software Engineering #software-engineering #artificial-intelligence #integrations
Jul 20

NOTE Skipping Go Compiler Bounds Checks Improves Performance with Unsafe

Software Engineering #software-engineering #bounds-checking #go
Jul 15

NOTE Fragile staging and end-to-end tests hinder system scalability

Software Engineering #software-engineering #contract-testing #databases
Jul 11

NOTE Good DevOps Practices Are Essential for Reliable AI Agentic Workflows

Software Engineering #software-engineering #agentic-workflows #ai-agents
Jun 26

NOTE Hands-on experience with systems reveals their critical failure modes

Software Engineering #software-engineering #databases #failure-modes
Jun 22

NOTE Go's Error Handling Creates Excessive Nil And Error Checks

Software Engineering #software-engineering #defensive-programming #error-handling
Jun 13

NOTE MD5 hash collisions are easily constructed and not secure

Software Engineering #software-engineering #collision-resistance #cryptographic-hash
Jun 11

NOTE Learning One Language Deeply Gives Intuition AI Cannot Provide

Software Engineering #software-engineering #ai-code-generation #concurrency
Jun 04

NOTE Asymmetry in SYN Flood Attacks Makes SYN Cookies an Effective Countermeasure

Software Engineering #software-engineering #asymmetry #clock-synchronization
May 04

NOTE Adopt a Specific Order for Comprehensive Code Review

Software Engineering #software-engineering #clarity #code-duplication
Apr 30

NOTE Git Worktrees Empower Coding Agents to Run Tasks in Parallel

Software Engineering #software-engineering #ai-agents #code-isolation
Apr 20

NOTE Match Existing Codebase Conventions for Easier Collaboration

Software Engineering #software-engineering #codebase-conventions #coding-style
Apr 03

NOTE Programming Outcomes are Harder to Ignore with Agents

Software Engineering #software-engineering #agents #ai-agents
Apr 02

NOTE Premature Optimization Adds Complexity, Reduces Readability

Software Engineering #software-engineering #code-correctness #code-maintainability
Feb 11

NOTE Go 1.26 just dropped :) and there's some interesting stuff

Software Engineering #software-engineering
Feb 10

NOTE In C, you can define two interesting macros - likely() and unlikely

Software Engineering #software-engineering
Jan 20

NOTE I do not remember shell commands :) and I needed

Software Engineering #software-engineering

2025

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Dec 26

NOTE Let me talk about something obvious but with a bit of quantification

Software Engineering #software-engineering
Nov 13

NOTE JavaScript runtime has an off-by-one bug :) I recently stumbled

Software Engineering #software-engineering
Nov 10

NOTE One coding project that I recommend every engineer build at

Software Engineering #software-engineering
Sep 05

NOTE Don't sacrifice code clarity for marginal gains

Software Engineering #software-engineering
Sep 03

NOTE DNS is perhaps the largest eventually consistent system in the world

Software Engineering #software-engineering
Jul 15

NOTE Exception handling is expensive, and it is 66x+ slower than

Software Engineering #software-engineering
Apr 23

NOTE I love the way Golang makes us handle errors

Software Engineering #software-engineering
Jan 29

NOTE When In Doubt, Code It Out

Software Engineering #software-engineering #devops-and-testing #productivity

2024

(1)

Jul 22

NOTE Abstraction is a fundamental principle in software engineering, but premature

Software Engineering #software-engineering #oop

2023

(6)

2022

(1)

Aug 11

NOTE If you want to learn low-latency and high-performance programming, here's

Software Engineering #low-latency-programming