Articles by azhenley
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A VC's 2026 Crystal Ball (medium.com/bread-and-butter-ventures)

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Seven Architectural Decision Making Fallacies (and Ways Around Them) (ozimmer.ch)

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Science Communications on YouTube (memphis.edu)

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Mechanisms as Types (spacechimplives.substack.com)

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December Coding Diary (sheeeeeeeep.art)

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When you give a manager a chatbot (disgruntleddeveloper.substack.com)

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The Rulefit Algorithm (christophm.github.io)

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Why do most new languages fail? (2012) (pointersgonewild.com)

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Compiler Explorer now supports Racket (godbolt.org)

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Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale (arxiv.org)

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Incidents: The Exceptional as Routine (surfingcomplexity.blog)

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Langjam Gamejam: Build a programming language and then use it to make a game (austinhenley.com)

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Can Advanced Type Systems Be Usable? [pdf] (cmu.edu)

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When You Give a Manager a Chatbot (disgruntleddeveloper.substack.com)

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The weird technical limitations of the Nintendo 64 [video] (youtube.com)

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Bonsai_term: A library for building dynamic terminal apps by Jane Street (github.com/janestreet)

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How stealth addresses work in Monero (johndcook.com)

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Measuring developer experience beyond system metrics (resources.github.com)

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Build a Compiler in Five Projects (kmicinski.com)

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Comparing My Techstars Experiences (substack.com)

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Extra: The Pinterest team is making an email client (extra.email)

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How We Built and Launched an MVP During Techstars (substack.com)

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Polarized Subtyping [pdf] (zee.town)

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The weekly CEO email (2018) (medium.com/gokulrajaram)

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The AI Scientist: Towards Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery (sakana.ai)

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A 6502 Emulator in LabVIEW (crossover-eng.it)

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The Verse Programming Language (epicgames.com)

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I implemented an ISO 42001-certified AI Governance program in 6 months (beabytes.com)

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You're a computer science major, don't panic (nytimes.com)

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Don't turn your brain off (computingeducationthings.substack.com)

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The State Machine Professor (niklaselmqvist.medium.com)

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Visual Studio 2026 (microsoft.com)

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Weighting an Average to Minimize Variance (johndcook.com)

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You're a computer science major. Don't panic (nytimes.com)

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Wordplay: A language-inclusive programming language for interactive typography (github.com/wordplaydev)

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Command Line Interfaces and Progressive Enhancement (2011) (lukew.com)

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That time I girl-bossed too hard at my tech job (beabytes.com)

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CodeAid: AI-powered programming assistant designed to facilitate learning (github.com/majeedkazemi)

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A Quick Guide to the AIpocalypse (beabytes.com)

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Angel Investors, a Field Guide (jeanyang.com)

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JermCAD: Browser-Based CAD Software (github.com/jeremyaboyd)

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Epic vs. Google settlement: Opening up Android (twitter.com/timsweeneyepic)

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My first fifteen compilers (2019) (sigplan.org)

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John Carmack on mutable variables (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

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Autopilot, Copilot, and Software Developers (rahulpandita.me)

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Thoughts on Cursor 2.0 and Cursor Compose (simonwillison.net)

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Recursive functions cause infinite tree in VS Code’s call hierarchy view (github.com/microsoft)

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Falsehoods programmers believe about names (2010) (kalzumeus.com)

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Should You Apply for a PhD in AI (2025-26)? (yashbhalgat.github.io)

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Why We're Still Talking About "Human Error" (thevoid.community)

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Let's write a database: Ordering and limits (danieljharvey.github.io)

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Generating Automatic Feedback on UI Mockups with Large Language Models (acm.org)

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Caveat Promptor (surfingcomplexity.blog)

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My Startup Diary: Techstars (austinhenley.com)

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Inferring User Actions from Screen Recordings to Recommend Better Workflows (arxiv.org)

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Debugging Safari: If at first you succeed, don't try again (predr.ag)

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CMU Students Put AI Coding Tools to the Test (cmu.edu)

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Techstars Investment Terms Update (techstars.com)

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AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Devs Want AI Support in Daily Work (arxiv.org)

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Caveat Prompter (surfingcomplexity.blog)

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Autopilot, Copilot, and Software Developers (rahulpandita.me)

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AI Tools for Software Development (CMU Course) (ai-developer-tools.github.io)

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PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports (python.org)

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The First Decade as Faculty (data-people-group.github.io)

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The Design Space of LLM-Based AI Coding Assistants [pdf] (ucsd.edu)

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Answering Developer Questions with Annotated Agent-Discovered Program Traces [pdf] (andrewhead.info)

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Let's Write a Database (danieljharvey.github.io)

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Version Sort (gnu.org)

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Let's Write a Database (danieljharvey.github.io)

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Walking Around the Compiler (bernsteinbear.com)

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Representing Heterogeneous Data (2023) (stuffwithstuff.com)

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A Qualitative Study of Co-Creation, Communication, Flow, Trust in Vibe Coding (arxiv.org)

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LLMs Hide Complexity (computingeducationthings.substack.com)

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The trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts (surfingcomplexity.blog)

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If my kids excel, will they move away? (jeffreybigham.com)

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How Developers Wield Agentic AI in Real Software Engineering Tasks (arxiv.org)

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Anonymous recursive functions in Racket (github.com/shriram)

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Feeling cranky about AI and CS Education (acm.org)

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Chill, Y'all: AI Will Not Devour Software Engineering (acm.org)

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Baby's first type checker (austinhenley.com)

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AI models need a virtual machine (sigplan.org)

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Pyret: A programming language for programming education (pyret.org)

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Classical Papers in Computer Science and Software Engineering: A Reading Group (ozimmer.ch)

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What the interns have wrought, 2025 (janestreet.com)

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Hasselblad X2D ii 100C (hasselblad.com)

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My favorite developer productivity research method that nobody uses (surfingcomplexity.blog)

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A recipe for creating random fractals (johndcook.com)

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NASA's 10 rules for safety critical code (wikipedia.org)

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StreetViewAI: Making Street View Accessible Using Context-Aware Multimodal AI [pdf] (washington.edu)

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Easy will always trump simple (surfingcomplexity.blog)

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Cline: Open-source AI coding, uncompromised (cline.bot)

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Angel Investors, a Field Guide (jeanyang.com)

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Compilation, Interpretation, and Environments [video] (youtube.com)

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Angel Investors, a Field Guide (jeanyang.com)

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Hofstadter Esoteric Programming Language [video] (youtube.com)

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A few programming language features I'd like to see (2023) (neilmadden.blog)

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Compiling a Lisp: Lambda lifting (bernsteinbear.com)

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Assessing Students in the Era of AI (austinhenley.com)

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Why do we even need SIMD instructions? (lemire.me)

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MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System (worksonmymachine.ai)