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Yadda 3.0.0 is out. The release modernises the JavaScript BDD library, but more interestingly, it was largely built by Claude Code and points to why executable specifications may become even more valu…

Further experience with Claude has strengthened my view that code quality matters more, not less, in the age of vibe coding. Left unguided, it amplifies duplication and weak abstractions; tightly cons…

Yes, SKIP LOCKED is great. In practice you nearly always want LIMIT, which the article did not mention. Be careful if your selection spans multiple tables: only the relations you explicitly lock are p…

I genuinely like the framing of advisory versus authoritative AI, and I agree with the core observation that authority, when it is genuinely granted, is what unlocks step change improvements rather th…

Seriously? Bun has over 500 open issues with the label "crash". https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3... The socket implementation is broken…

I've tried this approach twice with mixed success. In both cases I wanted to stub out the persistence tier of a Node.js application when test driving the API. I verified the real and fake impleme…

I was in a similar position. The following helped. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Millionaire-Teacher-Wealth-Should-L... https://canadiancouchpotato.com/ …

Also dyslexic and also used to mirror write perfectly, but without knowing I was doing it. Was in the late 70s, prior to dyslexia being widely understood and my teachers had no idea what to do.

What a very strange article. TES were using docker in production in October 2014. It was certainly possible to run docker containers (docker run -d) in the background and to view them (docker ps) as e…

A fool and his money are easily parted

Hi chatmasta, Thanks for you're comment - we agree that the deployment of micro-services is more complicated, although we disagree it has to be a nightmare. Not wanting to jump the gun on my next…