"The agile mind is pleased to find what it was not looking for." -- Lewis Hyde

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

Putting all your controllers in one directory and your views in another
Is like putting the cortisone and hemorrhoid cream in the drawer with toothpaste because they're all tubes.

"by reducing and externalising cognitive load, and working in small iterations that bring us back to tested, backed-up code many times an hour, we can achieve the focus we need and communicate often enough to stay in sync with the team."

codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/m...

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

so good!
fly.io/blog/youre-a...

For noen kan et lite regnbueflagg bety at vi føler oss tryggere. Man ser flagget og tenker; « her kan jeg passe inn»
En enkel måte å vite at jeg også blir satt pris på.

Veldig fin video
Oslo Pride🌈

OTD…May 23, 1995

Happy Birthday, #Java! Here’s to 30+ more years with a beautiful combination of technology innovation and community participation!

Ærlighet i fascismens tid Det er på tide at norske medier lever opp til sine høye tanker om seg selv.

Et voldelig forsøk på statskupp er en «demonstrasjon», mens en nazihilsen er en «obskur håndbevegelse.»

Jeg har skrevet om norsk medias manglende evne og vilje til å ta tak i fremvoksende fascisme, og hvordan de snart må begynne å leve opp til sine høye tanker om seg selv.

So when you are an US ally, you need to now be prepared to be the target of economic exploitation attempts instead of receiving actual help. It is absolutely necessary and urgent that Europe takes care of its own security.

Jeg – en ADHD-superspreder Det finnes enklere forklaringer enn at den såkalte «ADHD-epidemien» skyldes sosiale medier.

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One of the odd lessons of programming is that your future self is just as much of a stranger as someone else. "What idiot wrote this garbage? Oh..."

Canon TDD -- I keep reading critiques of processes that aren't TDD, so I summarized the original definition.

tidyfirst.substack.com/p/canon-tdd

Learning in the Forest How & why does The Forest emphasize learning over production?

A year in The Forest is better than a Master's degree. How & why we emphasize learning over production in The Forest, & how that improves production.
tidyfirst.substack.com/p/learning-i...

Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness How do you avoid becoming a Brilliant Jerk? Read this article to learn practical tips on communication, honesty and psychological safety.

Discovered kind.engineering today (thank you @audunstrand.bsky.social). Great write-up of important people skills for developers, so much wisdom in one page.

The worst use of GenAI has got to be 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀.
In an earlier post I argued that GenAI, LLMs in particular, are just another tool in your box. Use where appropriate. This time I want to dig a bit into when definitively not to use it: to generate tests. [Image from Yan Krukau at Pexels]

Fruits & Roots The forest offers much but demands much too

tidyfirst.substack.com/p/fruits-and...

Talk proposal: Tech debt nomads and slash-and-burn development einarwh.github.io/talks.html#T...