A software factory is harnessing loops at scale - the system that builds your software instead of you. You can run the loop with humans in it (light factory)...
GitHub had over 14,000 repositories. Fewer than half had clear ownership. Here's how we gave every active repository a validated owner in under 45 days.
The joy of Inertia Rails: painting your own with 50 happy little lines—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Inertia is Turbolinks with one twist: render JSON instead of HTML on the second visit. We rebuild the whole protocol on a real Rails app with a 50-line client and a 16-line server, then audit what the real gem adds on top.
Speeding Up Checkout in a Fast-Growing Monorepo with Blacksmith | Nicolas Charpentier
We swapped actions/checkout for Blacksmith's cached checkout across our GitHub Actions. Mean checkout time dropped from 69s to 20s, reclaiming ~33 hours of runner time each weekday.
Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way
I often find myself wanting to run a quick Python tool inside of GitHub Actions using uvx name-of-tool - but I don't want that to result in a network request to PyPI every time the workflow runs. I want the tool to be fetched the first time and then reused from the GitHub Actions cache for subsequent runs.
Introducing Precursor: detecting agentic behavior with continuous client-side signals
Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced automation with higher precision — while reducing friction for legitimate users.
Without reading dry documentation, finding the correct use for aria roles can be a challenge, so Steve Frenzel is here to break down the often mis-used aria-expanded.
yetone/kill-ai-slop: A field guide to the visual & copy tics of AI-generated products — and an Agent Skill that scans your project and strips them out. https://killaislop.com
A field guide to the visual & copy tics of AI-generated products — and an Agent Skill that scans your project and strips them out. https://killaislop.com - yetone/kill-ai-slop
Kill AI Slop — Clean & Remove AI Slop | 杀死 AI slop
Clean AI slop out of your product: a field guide to the visual tics of vibe-coded UIs — and how to detect and remove the AI-generated look. 一份识别并清除 Vibe Coding 产品里 AI slop 的实战手册。
No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life — Smashing Magazine
Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don't want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders envision it. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video courses on UX** and design patterns by Vitaly.
Contract-Driven Development: Write the Truth Once - Ben Howdle
I've built the same idea three times: define the domain once, generate everything downstream. What survived across a bank, a consumer app, and the AI era.