Articles by fagnerbrack
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Names Are the First Thing You Read and the Last Thing You Remember (fagnerbrack.com)

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Becoming Unblockable (seangoedecke.com)

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Migrating 6000 React tests using AI Agents and ASTs (eliocapella.com)

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No Code Reviews by Default (raycast.com)

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Learn Algorithms for Interviews, Forget Them for Work (fagnerbrack.com)

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Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)

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I Choose Email over Messaging (spinellis.gr)

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The TypeScript AI Framework – Mastra (mastra.ai)

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Show HN: Read.place/view – Reader view for any article and TL;DR summary (readplace.com)

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Magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Japan. 3M tsunami expected (mainichi.jp)

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GitHub – Merit-Systems/Echo: The User Pays AI SDK (github.com/merit-systems)

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Development Gets Better with Age (allthingsdistributed.com)

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Anthropic Nerfed Opus 4.6 Before the 4.7 Launch (fagnerbrack.com)

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A new direction for AI developer tooling featuring creator of Tidewave (changelog.com)

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Tips for Probabilistic Software (jxnl.co)

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GitHub – Heyitsnoah/Claudesidian (github.com/heyitsnoah)

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Bernt Børnich: Meet NEO, your robot butler in training [video] (ted.com)

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Hazardous States and Accidents (entropicthoughts.com)

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The Danger of "Modern" Open Source (fagnerbrack.com)

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Gall's Law – Laws of Software (laws-of-software.com)

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Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms – Moncef Abboud (cefboud.com)

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Book Summary: Learn Python the Hard Way (fagnerbrack.com)

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Book Summary: Learn Python the Hard Way (medium.com/fagnerbrack)

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Give Your AI Eyes: Introducing Chrome DevTools MCP (addyosmani.com)

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Show HN: I've built a read-it-later app with TL;DR summary and Chrome Extension (chromewebstore.google.com)

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Show HN: I just a read-it-later app with TL;DR summary and Chrome Extension (chromewebstore.google.com)

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The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants (cerbos.dev)

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Why Are Event-Driven Systems Hard? (scalablethread.com)

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RSL: Simple Licensing (rslstandard.org)

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Show HN: Hutch – Read the web, not the slop (hutch-app.com)

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The Cost of Slow Feedback Loops (revontulet.dev)

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How to Keep Services Running During Failures? (scalablethread.com)

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MCP Authorization in 5 easy OAuth specs (workos.com)

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Guidelines Don't Scale. Patterns Do (fagnerbrack.com)

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Flowing with Agents with Beyang Liu, CTO of Sourcegraph (changelog.com)

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Software Engineers Make Productive Decisions (without slowing the team down) (strategizeyourcareer.com)

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An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming (2018) (arxiv.org)

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MCP Vulnerabilities Every Developer Should Know (composio.dev)

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Sit on Your Ass Web Development (2025) (jim-nielsen.com)

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P-fast trie: lexically ordered hash map (dotat.at)

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Using Vision Language Models to Index and Search Fonts (lui.ie)

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Writing code was never the bottleneck (medium.com/fagnerbrack)

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To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head (get-nerve.com)

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Show HN: Read-it-later app in days – Claude and GitHub Actions workflow (github.com/hutchapp)

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Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them? (verou.me)

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Is it just me or Claude always went down at 11:47-00:00 UTC for the last 5 days?

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I built a project in hours, assisted by a simple AI Workflow. Here it is (github.com/hutchapp)

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I built an AI-assisted POC of a read-it-later app with Web/FF extension in < 24h (github.com/hutchapp)

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Claude.ai Is Down (claude.ai)

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LLMs and Your Career (eatonphil.com)

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Getting Real with LLMs (giladpeleg.com)

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Napkin Math (github.com/sirupsen)

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The Move Faster Manifesto (brianguthrie.com)

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The Problem You Solve Is More Important Than the Code You Write (medium.com/fagnerbrack)

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A movie-like Music Video built using AI (youtube.com)

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Claude is down (05 Dec '25) Cloudflare returning 500 (claude.ai)

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AWS Is Down (dataconomy.com)

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The Danger Of Relying On Abstractions-replace verbatim "the internet" with "AI" (medium.com/hackernoon)

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Full AI-Based Workflow

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Re-Imagining Technical Interviews: Valuing Experience over Exam Skills (danielabaron.me)

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The CAP theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something (codingconfessions.com)

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Cognitive Load is what matters (github.com/zakirullin)

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Naming Conventions That Need to Die (2018) (willcrichton.net)

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It turns out I'm still excited about the web (werd.io)

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That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection (fhur.me)

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Writing system software: code comments (antirez.com)

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A Map of Software Engineering Pay in US (levels.fyi)

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Slow deployment causes meetings (2015) (tidyfirst.substack.com)

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Talking over a wall changed my direction as a programmer (thecodist.com)

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Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design" (16elt.com)

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Covid: "I lost 95% revenue OVERNIGHT" in a multi-million dollar startup (spotify.com)

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Web Components Are Not the Future – They're the Present (abeautifulsite.net)

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How to Cope with Technology FOMO (avdi.codes)

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The Nine Node Pillars (platformatichq.com)

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Fantastic talk about pre-mortem and decision making under stress [video] (ted.com)

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Codemania 2015: Josh Robb – Connascence and Coupling [video] (youtube.com)

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How to Cope with Technology FOMO (avdi.codes)

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What Makes Concurrency So Hard? (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

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GitHub trick to find the commit that deleted a file (microsoft.com)

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My dead father is writing me notes again (arstechnica.com)

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The Impossibility of Making an Elite Engineer (tidyfirst.substack.com)

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Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers (alvaroduran.com)

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Math4devs.com: List of mathematical symbols with their JavaScript equivalent (math4devs.com)

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Video (4M): TypeScript: Should you use Types or Interfaces? (youtube.com)

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Larman's Laws of Organizational Behavior (craiglarman.com)

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AI will step off the screen and into the real world [video] (ted.com)

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Software Licensing Changes and Their Impact on Financial Outcomes (redmonk.com)

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I just crossed $1M on GitHub Sponsors (calebporzio.com)

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Heic-To: Convert HEIC/HEIF Images to JPEG, PNG in Browser (github.com/hoppergee)

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Exploring Generative AI (martinfowler.com)

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Real-Time Mouse Pointers (canva.dev)

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In Case You Missed: JavaScript Standard Got an Extra Stage (thenewstack.io)

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Is Linux collapsing under its own weight? On Rust for Linux (sporks.space)

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Seriousness (malloc.dog)

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Ten Git tips and tricks you need to know (honeybadger.io)

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HTML-metadata – a Node.js library that extracts metadata from HTML pages (github.com/wikimedia)

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Regexes Got Good: The History and Future of Regular Expressions in JavaScript (smashingmagazine.com)

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Async Chunk Preloading on Load (mmazzarolo.com)

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Visual Programming in the 60s [video] (youtube.com)

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Reader Q&A: What does it mean to initialize an int in C++? (herbsutter.com)