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What does it mean to measure durable change velocity in 2026?(gitclear.com)
2 points by wbharding 5mo ago|0 comments
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Data roundup: Which code models performing best this month (April 2026)?(bill.harding.blog)
1 points by wbharding 6mo ago|0 comments
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New Research: AI Coding Tools Attract Top Performers – But Do They Create Them?(gitclear.com)
1 points by wbharding 8mo ago|0 comments
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by wbharding 1y ago
Show me a Gary Marcus essay, I’ll show you a few new LLM “gotchas” that will be fixed by the next version. Season to taste with self-assured confidence that all these tech goobers really don’t understand how totally overrated AI progress is
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by wbharding 1y ago
It's hard to reconcile how 59% of devs in their survey are "confident" AI is improving their code quality, with prior empirical research that shows a surge in added & copy/pasted lines w/ a corresponding drop in
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What's Missing with AI-Generated Code? Refactoring(thenewstack.io)
3 points by wbharding 2y ago|1 comments
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by wbharding 2y ago
Wish more people would report their placebo experiments. I have periodically run them on myself, and am consistently surprised how I have been unable to differentiate substances I thought were helpful (adderall, kratom) end up indistinguish
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Visual Studio Code Setup/Use on macOS for Jetbrains Users(bill.harding.blog)
1 points by wbharding 2y ago|0 comments
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AI generated code compounds technical debt(leaddev.com)
3 points by wbharding 2y ago|1 comments
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Automatic Changelog Generator: free tool for entrepreneurs and GitHub Sponsors(gitclear.com)
1 points by wbharding 2y ago|0 comments
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We built an automatic changelog generator, in depth(gitclear.com)
1 points by wbharding 2y ago|0 comments
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by wbharding 2y ago
I think they’re called “commercial displays” now (no malware subsidy like smart TVs tho)
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A 2024 Glimpse into Life as a Google Ads Customer(bill.harding.blog)
2 points by wbharding 2y ago|0 comments
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Developer tool is 40 years old: can it be improved?(stackoverflow.blog)
5 points by wbharding 2y ago|1 comments
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Interesting Podcast Idea? Routines and Habits of World-Class Programmers(bill.harding.blog)
1 points by wbharding 2y ago|0 comments
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Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling(gitclear.com)
256 points by wbharding 3y ago|275 comments
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"Building a castle" explains why it's nearly impossible to create great software(gitclear.com)
3 points by wbharding 3y ago|0 comments
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by wbharding 3y ago
Original research author here. It's exciting to find so many thinking about long-term code quality! The 2023 increase in churned & duplicated (aka copy/pasted) code, alongside the reduction in moved code, was certainly beyond
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by wbharding 3y ago
Sure would be nice if Firefox desktop would join the browsers that support PWAs. We build an app that has been PWA-first, but it is unfortunate that this generally requires users to have a Chrome instance running. Would much rather point pe
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by wbharding 3y ago
For the poor few still using Evernote, there are many great alternatives now available: Notion is the obvious one: https://noteapps.info/note_apps/disambiguate/evernote-vs-not... Amplenote was heavily inspired by
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by wbharding 3y ago
https://bill.harding.blog - Linux Touchpad project, Rails techniques, occasional entrepreneur musing
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by wbharding 3y ago
I had never specifically considered the distinction between "intelligence" and "consciousness," but after reading this, I'd agree that it may be an important distinction warranting consideration. My sense after read
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by wbharding 3y ago
Wow, a much more vitriolic first comment than I would expect from HN. The last six months has not lacked for Musk-hating enthusiasts howling “Twitter is dead.” But when I look at Google Trends, its story is that interest in Twitter is almos
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Notes on a Torture Party(sashachapin.substack.com)
2 points by wbharding 4y ago|0 comments
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Ruby/Rails Performance Comparison of Intel, M1 Max, M2 Max(bill.harding.blog)
16 points by wbharding 4y ago|4 comments
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by wbharding 4y ago
The "gaps that seem obvious"-notion describes exactly how I feel about pull request tooling these days. The status quo for PR review has very obvious-seeming improvements that have not been pursued (ex: de-emphasizing moved code v
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Linux Touchpad like MacBook Update: 2022 progress and new poll(gitclear.com)
147 points by wbharding 4y ago|59 comments
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by wbharding 4y ago
We were defrauded by Twilio as well: https://bill.harding.blog/2019/08/13/twilios-incentives-to-a... Maybe a class action possibility here?
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Cancer relapse reduced 44% in early study using mRNA vaccine(wsj.com)
50 points by wbharding 4y ago|7 comments
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Which 2022 note apps sparked most curiosity? 12 months' data(noteapps.info)
3 points by wbharding 4y ago|0 comments

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