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…
O-Ring Automation: How Task Complementarity Shapes Machine Adoption
TL;DR A new NBER working paper by Joshua S. Gans and Avi Goldfarb models automation when tasks are quality complements…
The meek did inherit the Earth, at least among ants, New York Times
TL;DR The New York Times published an article headlined "The meek did inherit the Earth, at least among ants." Full…
How Westlaw and LexisNexis Came to Dominate U.S. Legal Research
TL;DR Two companies — West (Westlaw) and Lexis (LexisNexis) — now control most commercial legal research, a position that grew…
Pipe Dreams: The rise, design and brief life of Yahoo Pipes, revisited
TL;DR Yahoo Pipes was a browser-based visual programming tool launched into public beta in early 2007 that let users aggregate,…
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…
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.…
The Dawn of the AI Drone: Exploring the Rise of Autonomous Aerial Systems
TL;DR Only the headline and metadata are available for this New York Times Magazine piece titled "The Dawn of the…