Misc

Scheduling note: this week, I’m in San Francisco at the AI Engineer’s World Fair, so there won’t be an edition of The Pulse on Thursday. However, tomorrow (Wednesday) there will…

At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience – a format I refer to…

It’s been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won’t be a long post, because I only have…

Press enter or click to view image in full size I have been writing more articles around full-stack development lately, mostly because I keep running into real issues while building…

PDF files are one of the most widely used document formats for sharing reports, invoices, contracts, books, research papers, manuals, forms, and business documents. Although viewing a PDF is simple,…

Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and…

Vivek explains how Snowflake systematically rolled out coding agents across its engineering org — starting with unrestricted experimentation, then codifying what worked into a shared vocabulary of 14 “AI design…

The Redux Toolkit Architecture Redux Toolkit completely removes the boilerplate nightmare by introducing a logical, modular way to build your global store. Instead of writing massive, monolithic reducer functions that…

sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25) 5th July 2026 I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude…