Fragments: May 27
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 as “two old geezers on a park bench”. We talk about our…
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TILens turns technical updates into a focused daily brief: official releases, trusted reporting, and practitioner analysis, deduplicated and organized by topic.
SQLAlchemy 2 In Practice - Solutions to the Exercises
To conclude with my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice series, this article contains the solutions to all the exercises. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on…
Private analytics via zero-trust aggregation
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The test suite as a regression sensor
Birgitta Böckeler finishes her post on sensors for coding agents by examining the role of a test suite as a regression sensor, focusing on the role mutation testing can play. more…
The VibeSec Reckoning
Vibe coding has significantly accelerated software prototyping but AI agents frequently recommend insecure configurations, creating security problems. Gautam Koul, Lucian Moss, Neil Drew-Lopez, and Daberechi Ruth…
Cisco and OpenAI redefine enterprise engineering with Codex
Cisco and OpenAI are redefining enterprise engineering with Codex, helping Cisco scale AI-native development, accelerate AI Defense work, and automate defect remediation.
Building self-improving tax agents with Codex
See how OpenAI, Thrive, and Crete built a self-improving tax agent with Codex, automating filings, improving accuracy, and accelerating workflows.
April 2026 Baseline monthly digest
Read about various happenings with Baseline during April 2026.
Summer of 26: Events, Conferences and Workshops
Devoxx Poland 2026: Token-Efficient, Well-Crafted Java #livecoding conference talk Devoxx Poland 2026 Krakow, Poland 18 June 2026 https://devoxx.pl/talk?id=15451 VibeKode Conference: How To Write Great Code with LLMs…
Proposed Advancement of Pointer Events Level 3 to W3C Recommendation
The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input from devices including a…
Shipping a Trillion Parameters With a Hub Bucket: Delta Weight Sync in TRL
Reachy Mini goes fully local
Election information and safeguards in 2026
Ahead of global elections, we’re helping people access information, supporting cyber defenders, and increasing AI transparency
Warp’s big bet on building open source with GPT-5.5
Warp uses GPT-5.5 and OpenAI models to coordinate coding agents across local, cloud, and open-source development workflows.
Continuous Offensive Security: The Line We've Been Walking
Snyk's Continuous Offensive Security unifies DAST, AI pentesting, and agent red teaming to find exploitable flaws — not just bugs — before attackers do. Here's why lineage matters.