No. 07
Issuesopen issue · 10 posts
Programming without a framework, a month with an AI reviewer and two photo series from the waterfront.
In this issue
Workshop
- One year without a framework: 41 pages, zero regrets
I rewrote my side project in plain HTML, CSS and a little TypeScript. The bundle shrank from 312 KB to 9 KB — here is what it cost.
- The shell snippet that saves me an hour a week
Twelve lines of zsh that open the right branch, the right ticket and the right logs.
AI Radar
- A small model with a big context window, tested on real tickets
I gave it 200 support tickets and one question. It answered 171 of them correctly.
- A month with an AI code reviewer: what it caught and what it missed
Thirty days, 84 pull requests and one bug it found before I did.
Shelf
- Review: The Quiet Compiler
For engineers who like their theory with a story. Worth it, if you skip chapter six.
- Review: Notes on Slow Software
A short book with one good idea, repeated well. For team leads more than for developers.
Darkroom
- Series: the harbour at dawn
Twelve frames shot between 5:40 and 6:20, before the first ferry left.
- Series: fog over the river, late October
Nine frames from one morning when the far bank disappeared completely.
Cinema
- Review: A Long Night in the Archive
Two hours, one building, almost no dialogue. It should not work, and it does.
- Review: The Last Print
A beautiful film about projectionists that forgets to tell a story.