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Maybe writing speed is a bottleneck for programming (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
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Raku: A Language for Gremlins (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
8 points by uticus 9 months ago | past
You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
2 points by bundie 10 months ago | past
Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
135 points by azhenley 10 months ago | past | 47 comments
AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
3 points by mpweiher 10 months ago | past
AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
1 point by todsacerdoti 10 months ago | past
What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
156 points by BerislavLopac 11 months ago | past | 183 comments
Why Property Testing Finds Bugs Unit Testing Does Not (2021) (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
57 points by Tomte 11 months ago | past | 89 comments
Finding hard 24 puzzles with planner programming (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
2 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | past
Write the most clever code you possibly can (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
1 point by rbanffy 11 months ago | past
Write the most clever code you possibly can (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
1 point by rbanffy 11 months ago | past
Modeling Awkward Social Situations with TLA+ (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
3 points by BerislavLopac 11 months ago | past
Write the most clever code you can (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
17 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | past | 6 comments
Edge Case Poisoning (2020) (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
2 points by NooneAtAll3 12 months ago | past | 1 comment
Requirements change until they don't (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
74 points by azhenley 12 months ago | past | 22 comments
Requirements change until they don't (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
4 points by azhenley 12 months ago | past
Requirements change until they don't (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
2 points by BerislavLopac 12 months ago | past
Why do we call it "boilerplate code?" (2022) (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
3 points by fanf2 on April 18, 2025 | past | 1 comment
The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
108 points by BerislavLopac on April 17, 2025 | past | 114 comments
Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
110 points by Tomte on April 8, 2025 | past | 28 comments
Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering Specialness (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
1 point by BerislavLopac on March 27, 2025 | past
Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering Specialness (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
1 point by Kerrick on March 26, 2025 | past
Verification-First Development (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
65 points by vinipolicena on March 18, 2025 | past | 24 comments
Five Kinds of Nondeterminism (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
135 points by BerislavLopac on Feb 19, 2025 | past | 32 comments
Are efficiency and horizontal scalability at odds? (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
49 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 12, 2025 | past | 37 comments
What hard thing does your tech make easy? (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
2 points by BerislavLopac on Jan 30, 2025 | past
The Juggler's Curse (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
2 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 22, 2025 | past | 1 comment
Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors? (2024) (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
79 points by srijan4 on Jan 21, 2025 | past | 45 comments
Stroustrup's Rule (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
2 points by signa11 on Dec 23, 2024 | past
Stroustrup's Rule (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
1 point by signa11 on Dec 21, 2024 | past

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