Stories by birdculture

The Dumbest Performance Fix

The Most Important Code Is the Code No One Owns

AI code review prompts initiative making progress for the Linux kernel

State of C++ 2026

Solving Fossil's ASCII art CAPTCHA in 171 characters

Challenge to compress 1M rows to the smallest possible size

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

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