I keep hearing complaints about code review. About volume, about quality, about trying to take responsibility for code produced by colleagues who have abdicated their responsibility for thinking an…

Introducing Apple Reference Image, a new solution for verifiable photography on iPhone. This new, opt-in camera mode lets a photographer create a securely timestamped reference image that accurately…

Results from our second annual tech worker sentiment survey

In this episode, I am thrilled to be joined by Matt Massicotte to kick off the "1 Billion Row Challenge" in Swift. The goal is to efficiently parse a massive file containing weather station data and…

Gathering my thoughts on the use of LLMs for writing prose, and how I’ve changed my workflow following some feedback and reflection on my own writing.

When we replatformed Twill, we built a software factory: agents write most of the code, a merge queue lands it, CI decides what gets through. Which means there's a lot of activity, and every release I cut (several a week) includes a list of changes. But I need to know if the factory is working. Are we generating impact or just endless lines of code?

I gave a new talk this week. The first one since last year. Not based on my book, unlike last year's - a truly, from scratch, 45 minutes on something I...

Local LLM vulnerability detection and sandboxing on underprovisioned Silicon, a 3 part series. # Part 2 of 3: The Sandboxed Local Agent # In part 1 we got our local oMLX server running and had a…

Credit: linardi91 / pixabay Engineers, we use a lot of words to talk about architecture, but at a fundamental level, I think architecture is about making good decisions easier, on a timeframe you c…

Credit: linardi91 / pixabay Engineers, we use a lot of words to talk about architecture, but at a fundamental level, I think architecture is about making good decisions easier, on a timeframe you can reason about. → Small startups can't reason about a long timeframe, so architecture has limited ROI.→ Banks have requirements around audit trails and - for trading systems - response times, that influence their architectural choices.

TL;DR: The resistance to AI-assisted software development among experienced software engineers isn't random or capricious–it follows the pattern Thomas Kuhn identified in scientific revolutions sixty…

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Credit: Google DeepMind / Pexels In February I wrote about The Spreadsheet: one tab per week, a column for each area of my life, and a green/yellow/red rating for impact and vibe. Every Monday I feed it to Claude and ask "how did I do?" and "what can I learn?" Nine months in, I'm still doing it. And with that much data, the patterns are inescapable.

Hi there. I’m Bill “LtRandolph” Clark, and I’m the engineering manager for the Champions team on LoL . I’ve worked on several different teams on League over the past years, but one focus has been…