Douglas A. Boneparth

How tech debt is born:

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pair programming is very high leverage — you don’t just get the immediate task done, but also teach someone to be able to do it themselves

Stacked diffs are really fun. I started working this way a few months ago and it's a blast. stacking.dev

BenchmarkDotNet v0.13.12 has been released! With the help of our new TestAdapter, you can run benchmarks directly from your favorite IDE! It's the initial version of the adapter, so we will be happy to hear your feedback. github.com/dotnet/Benchma…

I just proposed a new feature for the C# language. Please take a look, and see if you find it useful or not, and maybe leave a comment. github.com/dotnet/csharpl…

Sunday rant. For software engineering, my sense is that the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has massively backfired. Its from a book on data structures and mainly tried to dissuade people from prematurely write things in assembler. But the point was to

IT teams waking up this morning

Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens it’s an organizational failure. Yes, some human wrote a bad line. Someone can “git blame” and point to a human and it’s awful. But it’s the testing, the Cl/CD, the A/B testing, the metered

The single most important thing I have learned about software development over my career is that if you do not aggressively fight complexity, it will eat you alive.

Ah Stephen Toub’s annual .NET performance post is here! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/perform… #dotnet

Announcing VoidZero: a company building the next-generation unified toolchain for JavaScript. We are the creators and core-contributors of Vite, Vitest, Rolldown and Oxc - and we will unite these projects under a coherent vision to power the next generation of web

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Adam This “adult in the room” framing is pretty rude to the Claude Code team that built a product hitting $1B run-rate revenue faster than probably anything in history. Bun made like $2.50 total (stickers). Engineering is relative to time & tradeoffs & they made fantastic tradeoffs

i'm tired boss

Flaky tests and memory leaks are the worst. vitest now has a --detect-async-leaks flag that catches uncleared intervals, lingering servers, and other async operations leaking across your tests. ⚠️ Don't run it on every run though. Use it to audit your test suite, then

I'm developing a new Redis data type: even after working for 1 month to the text specification, I had to make choices in every code detail possible. Otherwise the code could work? Yes. But would be truly high quality stuff? Nope. Today it is like that. Tomorrow we will see.

Good tip for avoiding cognitive debt in codebases where AI has run wild: Design the interface, delegate the implementation

seems obvious but: things that are changing rapidly: 1. context windows 2. intelligence / ability to reason within context 3. performance on any given benchmark 4. cost per token things that are not changing much: 1. humans 2. human behavior, preferences, affinities 3. tools,