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Reading

A collection of links to content I have enjoyed reading, and you might too.

2026

  • Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work
  • I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed.

2025

  • A new breed of analyzers – cURL and libcurl
  • Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
  • Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
  • The Best Programmers I Know
  • Just fucking code.

2024

  • Chat Control: The EU’s CSEM scanner proposal
  • Not all TLDs are Created Equal
  • I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind
  • 12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World: Part 9
  • Amber The Programming Language
  • Stripe’s monorepo developer environment
  • https://grantslatton.com/software-pathfinding
  • Micro-libraries need to die already
  • The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
  • Greppability is an underrated code metric

2023

  • new codebase, who dis? (How to Join a Team and Learn a Codebase)
  • My first impressions of web3
  • Tech debt gets worse before it gets better
  • ko: Easy Go Containers
  • # Copilot for Docs
  • 404 Page not found
  • 10 hard-to-swallow truths they won’t tell you about software engineer job
  • zoonk/zoonk
  • Code is run more than read
  • Development slowness in big and legacy applications [and how to hurry it up]
  • Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash
  • GitHub
  • Mastodon
  • Bluesky
  • X
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Weekly top 5

Easy fix for UK blocked imgur images on a wordpress siteEasy fix for UK blocked imgur images on a wordpress site
VS Code Copilot (Agent) vs Google Antigravity (Planning) & MoreVS Code Copilot (Agent) vs Google Antigravity (Planning) & More
Google Antigravity for WSLGoogle Antigravity for WSL
WSL2 COM port pass-through with usbipd (firewall issues)WSL2 COM port pass-through with usbipd (firewall issues)
Add Exif data back to Facebook images – 0.10Add Exif data back to Facebook images – 0.10

Yearly top 10

Easy fix for UK blocked imgur images on a wordpress site
WSL2 COM port pass-through with usbipd (firewall issues)
VS Code Copilot (Agent) vs Google Antigravity (Planning) & More
Installing Android Studio on WSL2 for Flutter
Add Exif data back to Facebook images – 0.10
The day Google (almost) lost my timeline data...
Altering a Gerrit change (git workflow)
Your own Wikidata Query Service, with no limits
Reading from USB COM port in go
READ FIRST: Installing kubuntu-desktop on WSL2

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Latest Posts

  • Easily monitor your GitHub API limits and throttling
  • Fixing Wikimedia Commons thumbnail sized (on my blog)
  • Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026
  • Google Antigravity for WSL
  • VS Code Copilot (Agent) vs Google Antigravity (Planning) & More

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