Articles by BerislavLopac
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Friday Deploys: Sometimes That Puppy Needs Murdering (charitydotwtf.substack.com)

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2025 was for AI what 2010 was for cloud (charity.wtf)

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Americans Are Increasingly Convinced That Aliens Have Visited Earth (wired.com)

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The AI Agents Roadmap Nobody Is Teaching You (decodingai.com)

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How to Articulate Yourself Intelligently (thedankoe.com)

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Tolkien Society Auction (auctria.com)

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Why hiring feels impossible now: employers can't tell who's good (reddit.com)

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Doge Isn't Dead. Here's What Its Operatives Are Doing Now (wired.com)

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I heat my Essex home with a data centre in the shed (bbc.co.uk)

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Even Feminists Can Build Sexist Worlds (mythcreants.com)

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From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing (charity.wtf)

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The State of AI Agent Frameworks in 2025 (devnavigator.com)

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The Varying Strictness of TypedDict in Python (snarky.ca)

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Atlassian's DR simulation showed it lived in dependency hell (theregister.com)

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How Did REST Come to Mean the Opposite of REST? (2022) (htmx.org)

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It's Time to Kill Staging: The Case for Testing in Production (thenewstack.io)

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Beyond LLMs: Building a Graph-RAG Agentic Architecture for Faster ECM Automation (medium.com/hellorahulk)

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Architectural debt is not just technical debt (frederickvanbrabant.com)

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Mission, Vision, PoTAYto, PoTAHto (asmartbear.com)

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Bill Gates Says We're in an AI Bubble Similar to the Dot-Com Bubble (businessinsider.com)

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Researchers detail legible software, better than vibe coding (theregister.com)

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The Curious Case of the Disappearing Captcha (wired.com)

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The Discipline of Innovation (fermatslibrary.com)

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Tech companies are firing everyone to "fund AI", spending money on each other (reddit.com)

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London's phones thieves are burying stolen devices in flowerbeds (londoncentric.media)

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Agentic AI and Security (martinfowler.com)

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I was once an AI true believer. Now I think it's rotting from the inside (reddit.com)

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The Phase Change (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

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Magic Words: Programming the Next Generation of AI Applications (oreilly.com)

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The Architect's Dilemma (oreilly.com)

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Understanding Spec-Driven-Development (martinfowler.com)

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Driverless taxis are coming to London's streets in the spring (londoncentric.media)

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The Architect's Dilemma (oreilly.com)

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Why aren't you a good fit? (antoniokov.com)

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Many Hard LeetCode Problems Are Easy Constraint Problems (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

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Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up (substack.com)

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The Angels and Demons of Nondeterminism (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

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Sapir-Whorf does not apply to Programming Languages (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

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Support Systems: Mentoring, Coaching, and Therapy, What Sets Them Apart (humansinsystems.com)

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How Do Committees Fail to Invent? (infrequently.org)

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The Best Companies Are Dictatorships (nikunjk.com)

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You Can't Trust a Chatbot to Talk About Itself (arstechnica.com)

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Common problems managing senior engineers (emdiary.substack.com)

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Microsoft researchers have revealed the 40 jobs most exposed to AI (fortune.com)

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The Psychology of Fun: What Makes a Ttrpg Engaging and Enjoyable? (therpggazette.wordpress.com)

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Stop Leaked Credentials with Veles, the Open-Source Secret Scanner (googleblog.com)

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Ask HN: SQLAlchemy Documentation Down? (sqlalchemy.org)

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Inheritance over Composition, Sometimes (andgravity.com)

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Tumbling toast, Murphy's Law and I I the fundamental constants (fermatslibrary.com)

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Shift Left Meets Kafka: Testing Event-Driven Microservices (2024) (signadot.com)

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Don't Fall for AI: Reasons for Writers to Reject Slop (mythcreants.com)

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Maybe writing speed is a bottleneck for programming (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

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A new era of Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.blog)

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OpenCLI Specification (opencli.org)

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The more senior engineers get, the more results matter (seangoedecke.com)

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What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend (fastcompany.com)

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Electronics, Technology and Computer Science, 1940-1975: A Coevolution (fermatslibrary.com)

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Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful (florian-kraemer.net)

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How to Deal with a Toxic Top-Performer (dave-bailey.com)

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Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019) (austinhenley.com)

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My First Open Source AI Generated Library (pocoo.org)

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[dupe] Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant (fermatslibrary.com)

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Why Silicon Valley's Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed with Hobbits (nytimes.com)

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How to Catch People Using AI During Interviews (intruder.io)

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Decorators and Functional Programming (lihil.cc)

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What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

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Coding Assistants Threaten the Software Supply Chain (martinfowler.com)

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Skills Kids (and Adults) Need in an AI World (oreilly.com)

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PEPs and Co (hugovk.dev)

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Infrastructure Gravity and Domain Engineering (jackdanger.com)

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Modeling Awkward Social Situations with TLA+ (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

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[flagged] Realism Still Doesn't Justify Including Sexual Assault (mythcreants.com)

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Burn Your Title (eatonphil.com)

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Python is an interpreted language with a compiler (ntietz.com)

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Python is just Haskell with few extra steps (2021) (reddit.com)

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Requirements change until they don't (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

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Vibe Coding, Vibe Checking, and Vibe Blogging (oreilly.com)

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Advanced Python Features (edward-li.com)

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Stop Writing `__init__` Methods (glyph.im)

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The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

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The Essential Reading List for TTRPGs (thealexandrian.net)

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After 800 lines, Cursor AI tells user 'can't generate code, develop it yourself' (businesstoday.in)

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If I were starting out now (buttondown.com/carlton)

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The Infinite Conversation (infiniteconversation.com)

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Dangerous Advice for Software Engineers (seangoedecke.com)

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Principles for Measuring Developer Productivity (getdx.com)

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The Reality of Tech Interviews in 2025 (pragmaticengineer.com)

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What's in Space: A realtime 3D map of objects in Earth orbit (whatsin.space)

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I've been kidnapped by Robert Caro (martinfowler.com)

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British authors 'sick' to discover books on 'shadow library' used to train AI (sky.com)

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The Product Engineer (randsinrepose.com)

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Why Backlog Management Is Dangerous for Most Teams (dpereira.substack.com)

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Debts, Tech and Otherwise (newardassociates.com)

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A.I. Lover Will Change You (newyorker.com)

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Something Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot (futurism.com)

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What Our Teams Crave the Most (canopy.is)

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Some Cool Terminal Things I've Found Recently (neilmacy.co.uk)

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Leading Effective Engineering Teams in the Age of GenAI (addyo.substack.com)

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Test Double (2006) (martinfowler.com)

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Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. (2020) (lethain.com)