Articles by fagnerbrack
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Incorporate Monads and Category Theory (github.com/promises-aplus)

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Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To (cekrem.github.io)

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Going Beyond the Hyperlink (mamund.substack.com)

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What is inference engineering? Deepdive (pragmaticengineer.com)

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Show HN: Import the HN Home to a reading queue with clean reader view and TL;DR (readplace.com)

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Readplace: The read-it-later app for the AI era (readplace.com)

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CraftsmanSHIP. Not CraftsmanSHIT (fagnerbrack.com)

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LFM2 VL WebGPU (huggingface.co)

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Qwen3.5 WebGPU (huggingface.co)

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Readplace – A reading list app for the AI age – Read the web not the Slop (readplace.com)

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Voxtral Realtime WebGPU – A Hugging Face Space by Mistralai (huggingface.co)

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Release 4.0.0 · HuggingFace/Transformers.js (github.com/huggingface)

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Big tech engineers need big egos (seangoedecke.com)

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The unwritten laws of software engineering (manager.dev)

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Adam Garske: How designing new enzymes could change the world [video] (ted.com)

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The Smart Dumb Programmer (fagnerbrack.com)

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What we heard about Rust's challenges (rust-lang.org)

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SFQ: Simple, Stateless, Stochastic Fairness (brooker.co.za)

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Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers (fagnerbrack.com)

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Hybrid quota-linear rate limiter – Tony Finch (dotat.at)

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Chasing that next BIG thing with Drew Wilson (Changelog Interviews #639) (changelog.com)

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When AI Writes the Software, Who Verifies It? (leodemoura.github.io)

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Supercharging Claude Code with the Right (CLI) Tools (batsov.com)

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The Perfect Code Review: How to Reduce Cognitive Load While Improving Quality (bastrich.tech)

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5chan.org (youtube.com)

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What spec-driven development gets wrong (augmentcode.com)

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The AI Great Leap Forward (A Warning) (mamund.substack.com)

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-​-dangerously-skip-reading-code (olano.dev)

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Show HN: I just built a scanned PDF text extractor for public PDFs (1-300 page) (readplace.com)

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The Mythical Agent-Month (wesmckinney.com)

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Programmers Spend Their Time – Probably Dance (probablydance.com)

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How we made Notion available offline (notion.com)

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What Is a REST API, and Why Yours Probably Isn't One (fagnerbrack.com)

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Semantic Search Without Embeddings (softwaredoug.com)

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Learn Python the Hard Way Was Right About One Thing (fagnerbrack.com)

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Bloom filters: the niche trick behind a 16× faster API – Blog – incident.io (incident.io)

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Git: How to Undo a Commit Without Undoing Your Career (fagnerbrack.com)

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Multi-Core by Default – By Ryan Fleury – Digital Grove (dgtlgrove.com)

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Paola Antonelli: Design and the Elastic Mind [video] (ted.com)

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Thinking about custom software in a new way (jerodsanto.net)

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[flagged] Agentic Engineering (addyosmani.com)

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Show HN: Readplace Read-It-Later Chrome Extension – Free the for First 100 (chromewebstore.google.com)

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The Deletion Test – The Phoenix Architecture (leaflet.pub)

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The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding (addyo.substack.com)

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How the Lobsters front page works – nilenso blog (nilenso.com)

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Becoming Unblockable (seangoedecke.com)

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React Hooks Explained (fagnerbrack.com)

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The Only Thing That Matters (commoncog.com)

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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)