In response to the many requests I have received for introductory performance-programming materials, I will be posting a serialized course on Substack starting February 1st:.

RT @vkrajacic: Just got back from @BetterSoftwareC and still processing everything. I’m completely sleep deprived honestly. Sleeping felt l….

IYKYK.

Here is my feedback for next year's Better Software Conference: don't change a damn thing. That was the best conference I've ever been to. How do I sign up for 2026?.

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About to kick off the Better Software Conference with my latest lecture. The topic is a secret :) Hope to see you all on the BSC live stream!.

You can see the schedule and catch the live stream here:.

In about nine hours, I'll be on stage kicking off the inaugural Better Software Conference! The lineup of speakers is crazy good.

"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a.software design: One way is to make it so simple that.there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is.to make it so complicated that there are no obvious.deficiencies." - C. A. R. Hoare.

If you'd like to get your own beautifully-illustrated set of the trilogy, you've got ~50 hours left. There are also tiers for signed editions. We expect books to ship out around November:.

Our graphic novel Kickstarter has reached its last few hours! Thank you to everyone who backed along the way. @aerettberg drew many thousands of panels to bring this story to life, and we're really looking forward to sharing the entire trilogy with all of you!

And by the way, I had to disable this. It's enabled by default!.

Did someone seriously add an API in Chrome that allows the browser - the BROWSER - to permanently set the global microphone volume for the entire system, without notifying the user and with no way to disable it other than a hidden "experimental flags" UI?

Anyway, that's where we're at. Suggestions welcome.

I really wish Substack would just focus on improving their actual publication platform, instead of doing weird things like making an entire Twitter clone, which must have taken a lot of development resources. Meanwhile video playback is still poor, you can't attach code, etc.

Also, I've looked multiple times at releasing our own custom thing, and I've even gone so far as to make a front-end. But if we actually were to ship this, we're suddenly in the server maintenance business forever, and I haven't been able to talk myself into that yet.

Certainly one option is to move everything off Substack, which I would be fine doing, but I haven't found another good alternative (something that hosts subscription-based video, code, etc.). If anyone has one to recommend, I'm all ears.

I would like to make a source code repository available only to my subscribers. Unfortunately, Substack does not support this, and they don't even support an API for making extensions. Does anyone have any creative ideas about what I might do instead?.

Paul Rudd was the original vibe coder.

RT @aerettberg: We're down to the last week of our Kickstarter! If you'd like to get print copies of our books, head over to .

They discontinued my keyboard :(