Not actually a devlog #15
Hey! I hope you've got enough CVEs to manage on your side as it seems we're all mitigation engineers now. I guess it's fair as it was the spooky season but can we calm down now? Anyway here are some articles I enjoyed since last time!
📖 Readings
- 📖 🇬🇧 Harness Engineering: What I learned from 24,000 prompts building production apps. Agentic programming (and harness engineering) is a thing and this article is giving feedback and advice on how to improve your harness. Like the article I shared in NAD14, less is more with these tools: focus instead of throwing a lot of half-baked content at them.
- 📖 🇬🇧 How to read code. Am I once again agreeing 100% with Sean? Yep. Reading code is a skill. This article gives us tips on how to efficiently read reviews and codebases.
- 📖 🇬🇧 ⭐️ The system around the code. Okay, this one is long but it's on my top 10 for this year. You'll have a deep dive about the evolution of the developer role, how to make it impactful on your team and what it means at large scale. It's like the backstage of all of the corporate technical documentation coming from all the companies shipping agentic tools these days. It's a must read.
- 📖 🇬🇧 The case against Makefiles. I have less and less contact with Makefiles, however when I do I'm always a bit skeptical that the format is still so popular. I've switched to just a while ago and I'm happy to see someone else writing about it!
- 📖 🇬🇧 The Bedrock of Software Design. The article can be obvious for many, but I like how the author names the bedrock of software design, and I fully agree with it. I won't spoil it, go read it!