Tag: #tooling
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 8 posts
Build Tools That Stepped Down From Default — Why Ten Frontend Toolchains Gave Up Their Place
Ten tools that were once the default in frontend projects and are rarely picked for new ones today, organised strictly around verifiable evidence: official deprecation notices and repository archive status. Create React
2026-08-12 · 9 min read #open-source#frontend#build-tools#deprecation#javascriptLookup Cost Decides What You Can Read — From Two-Thousand-Year-Old Texts to Code Navigation
A site has appeared that gathers 1,060 Greek and Latin works and, when you click any word, shows its lemma, its morphological parsing, and its dictionary entry. The impressive part is not the volume of text but that the
2026-08-09 · 8 min read #developer-tools#code-navigation#ide#reading#toolingTypeScript 7 Is GA — the 8-12x Is Real, but Some People Cannot Move Today
On July 8, 2026, TypeScript 7.0 went GA. The Go-rewritten native port is no longer a separate binary — it is now simply tsc, and npm install -D typescript pulls it in. Microsoft's reported full-build speedup is 8 to 12x,
2026-07-16 · 18 min read #typescript#compiler#tooling#build-systems#compile-timesReal Engines in Your Browser: A Tour of WebAssembly Dev Tools
Real Python via Pyodide, real PostgreSQL via PGlite, real video processing via ffmpeg.wasm. A practical tour of the WebAssembly-powered, backend-free browser tools newly added to this site — why WASM delivers near-native
2026-07-03 · 8 min read #webassembly#wasm#developer-tools#browser#toolingOpinionated Tools — The Philosophy of Code Formatters and Linters
Why code formatters end debates and preserve consistency. Comparing gofmt and gofumpt, prettier, black, and ruff, this piece lays out the philosophy of strictness versus flexibility, the difference from linters, CI enfor
2026-06-29 · 22 min read #devops#formatter#linter#developer-tools#toolingOpinionated Tools — gofmt, gofumpt, and the Politics of Code Style
Why was code formatting ever a subject of debate, and how did gofmt end it? We compare gofmt with the stricter gofumpt, and contrast them with tools from other languages like prettier and black, taking a deep look at how
2026-06-25 · 21 min read #compiler#go#gofmt#gofumpt#formatterComparing Schema Migration Tools — Flyway, Liquibase, golang-migrate, Alembic, and Atlas
A comparison of the major schema migration tools — Flyway, Liquibase, golang-migrate, Alembic, and Atlas — across their models, version control, checksums, rollback, and CI integration. We examine the difference between
2026-06-16 · 14 min read #database#migration#flyway#liquibase#toolingWhy Is My Build So Slow? — Compilation, Linking, Caching, and Monorepos
There is always a reason a build is slow. The difference between compilation and linking, incremental builds and caches (ccache, sccache, Turbo, Nx, Bazel), the monorepo rebuild problem, cold versus warm, the limits of p
2026-06-08 · 14 min read #build-systems#productivity#tooling