Reverse engineering an abandoned app: restoring TileCreatorPro access
TL;DR A user relied on TileCreatorPro, a Windows-era design tool bought in 2017 from ThoughtFishMedia, and found the vendor site…
Brave’s Rust adblock engine refactor saves 75% memory with FlatBuffers
TL;DR Brave rebuilt its Rust adblock engine using FlatBuffers and other refinements, cutting memory use by about 75%—roughly 45 MB…
Why Refactoring Should Be Done In-Flow, Not As Backlog Stories
TL;DR Treating refactoring as standalone backlog stories is usually ineffective and hard to justify to stakeholders. Instead, incrementally clean the…
Refactoring — Why It Shouldn’t Be Put on the Backlog as a Story
TL;DR The author argues against treating refactoring as backlog work or a standalone story. Instead, teams should incrementally clean code…
How Twitch Managed Standards Across a Million Lines of TypeScript
TL;DR Twitch’s core engineering team addressed invisible exceptions in a million-line TypeScript monolith by treating lint rule violations as tracked…
Observability’s Past, Present, and Future: Origins, Failures, and Outlook
TL;DR Observability grew in the 2010s to help engineers debug distributed, cloud-native systems, driven by tracing and a new operational…
How fast can text chunking get? Inside memchunk’s ultra-fast approach
TL;DR The team behind the chonkie chunking library built memchunk to test theoretical and practical limits of delimiter-based text chunking.…
Calibrating My Turtle: One User’s Ongoing Tension with Coding Agents
TL;DR A long-time user describes a recurring pattern while adopting Claude: initial excitement about a specific capability leads to shifting…
Developers building applications and platforms for rings, bands and smart glasses
TL;DR A Hacker News thread asked whether anyone is building software for wearable devices. Commenters pointed to an established company,…
Why a developer switched from VSCode to Zed: a firsthand account
TL;DR A blog post titled "I switched from VSCode to Zed" was published on the Tenthousandmeters site. The full text…