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I have known Hollis Berridge since we were schoolboys, and I will say at the outset that there has never in all that time been a man more thoroughly suited to …
For a tool one types thirty times a day, Git is exceedingly reticent about what it does on the wire. git fetch blinks back a few lines about counting and …
The published benchmarks for agentic coding tools, taken at face value, describe a problem largely solved. SWE-bench Verified, the headline number against which …
A forecast is a wager dressed in argument, and the honest forecaster owes his reader two things: the date on which the wager can be settled, and an account of …
The post before this one read the Italian Renaissance, and named the Spanish tradition as a sibling it had not yet reached — one of the national Renaissances …
The most accurate single statement one can make about the writing of software in the spring of 2026 is that the programmer has, for the most part, stopped …
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| 2026-05-26 | writing | The Visitor's Book | 3951 | 19 min |
| 2026-05-26 | code | Git's Wire Protocol | 3474 | 17 min |
| 2026-05-26 | ai | What the Benchmarks Don't Catch | 3493 | 17 min |
| 2026-05-26 | antiques | Louis XIV | 2875 | 14 min |
| 2026-05-26 | antiques | Shirvan | 2880 | 14 min |
| 2026-05-25 | ai | One Year Out | 3299 | 16 min |
| 2026-05-25 | antiques | Spanish Baroque | 3586 | 17 min |
| 2026-05-25 | ai | The State of Coding, May 2026 | 3542 | 17 min |
| 2026-05-25 | antiques | Karabagh | 3353 | 16 min |
| 2026-05-24 | antiques | Italian Renaissance | 3341 | 16 min |