The technical musings of Iain Cambridge.
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Learn Go by Building a Command Line Todo App | Barbarian Meets Coding
Learn the Go programming language by building a test-driven command line todo application
Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve - Trisha Gee
This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve. "Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. ... Read more
Review the reviews
When I was actively contributing to the Go project, my primary feed was the code review email firehose. Issues, mailing lists, and Slack had low SNR. The finished commit history was better: it was finely polished work with some of the best written commit messages I have ever encountered. But it didn’t hold a candle to code reviews for operational learning. The commit history could tell you what got done and why, in impressive technical detail.
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - …
archived 16 Mar 2026 15:14:04 UTC
15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.
A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines
A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.
On AI and building your own GIS software
Of the thousands of essays over the past two years surrounding AI and its implications are some very thought provoking ones with enormous implications for GIS. Some of the essays are around the the…
Note on 24th September 2026
The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking …
RFCs on the Atmosphere
I was recently working on an RFC for some open source work and didn't have a good place to post it. Google Docs is annoying for anything technical and a git repo is heavy if you don't already have one set up and a process ready to go.
pulls.review
A better way to review a GitHub pull request’s diff: grouped, summarized, and fast.
Prioritize learning / seth.computer
The personal website of Seth Etter, a Wichita, KS based software engineer.
Playwright on GitHub Actions: The setup that actually runs fast
Playwright CI should not crawl. Learn how to cache browsers, run tests in parallel, and cut GitHub Actions time fast.
