I think it's underappreciated how much more productive programmers are when they're having fun. It sounds ridiculous but I think in general when businesses add extra process, admin, rules etc that make the work less fun, they fail to appreciate that it will impact productivity.

"I use AI in a separate window. I don't enjoy Cursor or Windsurf, I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers." DHH, the legendary programmer and creator of Ruby on Rails has the most beautiful and philosophical idea about what AI takes away from programmers.

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Status of Fil-C. - Reliably achieves memory safety for C and C++ with stronger guarantees than rewriting in Java or Rust. Much stronger guarantees than asan/valgrind/softbound/hwasan/mte (those aren’t memory safe at all! Too easy to bypass). Similar guarantees to CHERI, just on

My talk at Better Software Conference is now live on YouTube! I had the privilege of demoing ARC, our new Immediate Mode UI library written in C, followed by a Q&A. Presenting our work in front of some of the world’s best programmers was a massive honor, and the feedback has been

We Just Made History! #Commodore Is Home! #retrogaming #gaming

Handmade Hero has spawned careers. It inspired Billy Basso who went to make ANIMAL WELL. It influenced Vjekoslav Krajačić to venture into unknown and start his business around File Pilot. , gingerBill, and many others attribute to this series a major influence on how

The most interesting part for me is where Andrej Karpathy describes why LLMs aren't able to learn like humans. As you would expect, he comes up with a wonderfully evocative phrase to describe RL: “sucking supervision bits through a straw.” A single end reward gets broadcast across

An old post, but so good & important that it is worth reposting 12 years later. It’s more relevant than ever. Semantic Compression by Casey Muratori: caseymuratori.com/blog_0015

How to become a better programmer? The only way is to attempt a project that's above your pay grade, above your current skill level. This is it, no way around it.

Remember the first rule of memory safety in C is to have fun

TigerStyle.dev A new, visual home for TigerStyle -- the software engineering methodology developed by TigerBeetle to produce safer, faster software in less time. "Do the hard thing today to make tomorrow easy." "If you want to be remembered, be remarkable."

I'm doing a new discussion series with Demetri Spanos on emerging AI topics. Ironically, the series art was made by hand by Anna Rettberg without generative AI :)

"I have so much gratitude - and you can have some of that gratitude! I also have a lot of money, of course, but you absolutely cannot have any of that."

Amazing series on memory allocation strategies by gingerBill gingerbill.org/series/memory-…

Enter The Arena: Simplifying Memory Management A talk by Ryan Fleury (Ryan Fleury) dgtlgrove.com/p/enter-the-ar…