Mortal Kombat was actually based on a Scandinavian church song.

It was a Finnish hymn

We don't need another DDD intro talk. We need your stories.

The refactoring that almost sank the project. The EventStorming that exposed real org structure. The model that collapsed under load. KanDDDinsky 2026 is built on experience reports.

CFP closes March 21:
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I can ship some. A metric ton in your living room enough?

Tree view with the processes on the left, timeline of exceptions in processes up top, data grid with the exception details in the center and current exception call stack at the bottom

PerfView can record all managed exceptions in all processes system-wide thanks to the .NET ETW provider, with callstacks.

I built a viewer for these .etl files:

But at the end of the day you realize once you mastered those things that what counts is that you started somewhere and learned what to try, use and dismiss and how to separate BS from usefulness

Honestly I believe it doesn't really matter where you start. It's similar to for example trying to become a perf expert or a gym rat. If you research those topics you realize there is so much that you just want to stick your head in the sand.

Codex 5.3 vs Opus 4.6: The Benchmark Nobody Expected. (How to STOP Picking the Wrong Agent) YouTube video by AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

This is a good summary that describes the strengths of both approaches youtu.be/41UDGsBEjoI?...

Ok. I would have recommended then to start with codex. I think it is superior to Claude but some others might disagree. The cool thing with openai is that you can use it in open code. With Claude that is against terms and might get you into banning

Do you already have a chatgpt subscription?

Going Slower Feels Safer, But Your Domain Expertise Won't Save You Anymore. Here's What Will. YouTube video by AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

This is an excellent wakeup call m.youtube.com/watch?v=q6p-...

One thing that really helped me was to embrace the fact that I have years of experience, trust my instincts, know my and the tools limits and then experiment while keeping a sane scepticism.

And then try and error. Rinse and repeat

Try open code with something like open router or synthetic. There is so much more than just anthropic and openai

I like @willvelida.com's definition of AI coding as HVE (hyper velocity engineering). Important point being velocity which implies *direction* not just speed.
#DDDMelb

We are asking developers to do more with less, including less pay. Either we have managed to cut cost without reducing output, or we have increased output, but have very little to show for it.

I'm sure there is another narrative around creating new opportunities, but I'm not hearing about those.

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

OpenAI’s Latest Move Confirms My Worst Fear A few days back, I saw this mail from OpenAI.

The enshitification of chatgpt medium.com/write-a-cata...

I use alpha progression. Pretty neat app

AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals - Vercel A compressed 8KB docs index in AGENTS.md achieved 100% on Next.js 16 API evals. Skills maxed at 79%. Here's what we learned and how to set it up.

Vercel's AGENTS.md approach outperforms skills by embedding comprehensive Next.js docs into the agent context, avoiding decision points and ordering issues while ensuring consistent availability across turns — though skills still shine for focused, user-triggered tasks like upgrades or migrations.

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Congratulations and thanks for everything you did!

Be sure to ping this swiss dude. Happy to torture you and your husband 🤪

I'd wager this is the angriest statement ever issued by the Nobel Peace Prize people...

Neat view but super crowded today

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Interesting Azure ☁ update -> [Launched] Generally Available: Geo-Replication for #Azure Service Bus Premium

Update: I stopped. I no longer have a blog.

Peaked early.

I love how this person with a vested interest in selling AI solutions is acknowledging that AI writes shit code and, instead of improving it, we should just lower our standards.

This is how you get the 737 Max 8.

The temporary ignorance superpower www.davidpoll.com/2025/12/igno...

🐘 Oh, that's nice: Postgres 19 is going to ship read-your-writes for standbys when using asynchronous replication, via a new command WAIT FOR LSN (similar to WAIT_FOR_EXECUTED_GTID_SET in MySQL). Very cool!

www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/w...

Or it was misbehaving and needed some schooling
Bad Christmas tree ate all the cookies

Rogue NuGet Package Poses as Tracer.Fody, Steals Cryptocurrency Wallet Data A fake NuGet package mimicking Tracer.Fody stayed online for years, stealing Stratis wallet files and passwords from Windows systems.

Malicious Fody package thehackernews.com/2025/12/rogu...