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.…
HP-UX 11i v3 ends official support, closing a Unix chapter since 1982
TL;DR HPE has moved HP-UX 11i v3 out of standard support as of December 31, 2025; the product is now…
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,…
HPE retires HP-UX 11i v3, ending the final supported HP-UX release
TL;DR HPE has ended standard support for HP-UX 11i v3 on Dec. 31, 2025, moving the operating system into a…
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…