Coding

Pragmatic notes on developer tools, languages, and workflows. Shortcuts, tricks, and lessons from actually shipping code.

Two-part inspection machine over a conveyor of code plates, flagging one beetle-shaped defect while four others crawl away unnoticed

Alibaba's code reviewer finds fewer bugs on purpose

Alibaba Open Code Review trades recall for precision, using roughly a ninth of the tokens a general agent burns. See what that trade really costs you.

Five sealed glass chambers on a workbench, each holding a robotic arm building a different code branch, with one branch merging and four discarded

Orca runs five AI coders at once and four of them lose

Orca runs five AI coders at once, each in its own git worktree. Fan one prompt out to Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, and Pi, then merge the winner.

Mise replaces asdf, nvm, pyenv, and direnv with one file

Mise consolidates asdf, nvm, pyenv, rbenv, and direnv into one CLI. Manage language runtimes and environments from a single .mise.toml file.

Sealed monolithic machine on the left facing a workbench of twenty-two labelled precision hand tools on the right

Matt Pocock's 22 small skills beat one big framework

Matt Pocock's 22 small skills bring grilling sessions, a shared CONTEXT.md, and TDD to Claude Code and Codex without giving up your process.

Postgres queues thousands of jobs a second, skip Kafka

Use Postgres FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED and LISTEN/NOTIFY to build a durable job queue doing 3,000-5,000 messages per second without Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Fish, Zsh, or Nushell: which shell is actually worth switching to?

A practical comparison of Fish 4, Zsh, and Nushell covering defaults, plugins, startup time, and POSIX compatibility for devops and desktop use.