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Niklaus Wirth pleads for lean software, Henrik Karlsson emphasizes the importance of focus, and Calvin Wankhede shares his experience building a fully offline smart home.

Experienced developer frustrated with AI tooling for finding security bugs, web developer surprised by weird beliefs in engineering, fallout from nasty npm prank, thoughts on what they got right and wrong with Go, and challenging the view that all code is tech debt.

This podcast episode highlights the coolest code, best prose, and favorite episodes of each month. Topics discussed include AI dominance, Python in AI, Mojo programming language, limitations of chatbots, Apple's new vision, Reddit going dark, Valtown social website, blogging myths, Neon's serverless Postgres, enthusiast programmers, Bon 1.0 release, worst programmer story, decision fatigue, end of physical media, SSHX for terminal sharing, and fake definitions.

Richard Hipp and his team rewrite SQLite's text-based JSON functions, Morris Brodersen builds a complex app in vanilla JS, and Kristoffer Dalby creates Headscale, a self-hosted implementation of Tailscale control server. Open source LLMs are proving to be on par with ChatGPT in certain tasks.

ChatGPT’s new GPTs feature leak their prompts, Firefox’s share of the browser market will soon drop below 2%, Robin Berjon tries to formalize a name for those who can’t be named, Amy Lai tells the tale of the weirdest bug she’s ever seen & Facundo Olano trumps the “code is read more than written” cliche with his own: “code is run more than read.” View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Sentry – On Thursday, December 14th Sentry is doing a FREE web browser performance webinar. Sign up and bring your questions! There will be a Q&A at the end of the stream. ✌️ Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Zach Leatherman discusses the tension in the Jamstack community and its future. Topics include the new 'Pulse' admin tool, benefits of involving the entire team in long-term refactors, and using libraries over services to reduce dependencies and administration costs.

OpenAI's recent controversies, TL Draw's experiment with GPT 4 Vision, the case for HTML First, the future of coding and the rise of centaurs, and the relationship between coding and AI optimization

Guests discuss interesting topics including sharing your terminal with anyone, insights on competitors, a terminal JSON viewer & processor, advice on attending large conferences, and an experimental project working toward an exciting reality.

David Hugh-Jones, expert in commenting etiquette, shares insights on what makes a good comment. Hugging Face releases a distilled variant of Whisper for speech recognition. Bjarne Stroustrup's plan for bringing safety to C++. Jeff Sandberg declares that CSS is fun again. Jose M. Gilgado praises the beauty of finished software.

React Server Components in Next.js, Kent's concerns, Lee's support, NixOS milestone in reproducible builds, and OpenSign as an alternative to DocuSign.