Stories by birdculture

Bootstrap Chain for NixOS: Building the System from a Hand-Auditable Binary Seed

AI diagram looks great and nobody will read it

You can code only 4 hours per day. Here's why

The dev who asks too many questions is the one you need in your team

Goodhart's Law: When a Measure Becomes a Target, It Loses Its Value

TypeScript's Anders Hejlsberg on AI as a "regurgitator" reshaping software

It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths

Agentic Memory Poisoning: How Long-Term AI Context Can Be Weaponized

Selectively Disabling HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1

T: A Concise Language for Text Manipulation Replacing Unix Utilities

Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge (Winter 2025-2026)

State of the Subreddit (January 2027): Mods applications and rules updates

Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs

Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision

Clawdbot and Vibe Coding Share a Flaw: Others Decide When You Get Hacked

AI Generated Tests as Ceremony

Two empty chairs: why "obvious" decisions keep breaking production

In humble defense of the .zip TLD

The IndieWeb and Small Web

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