who's pedantic for banning .unwrap() in our codebases now
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
who's pedantic for banning .unwrap() in our codebases now
this visualization style but for codebases
March 7, 2026 at 4:38 AM
this visualization style but for codebases
"Write clean code. You'll thank yourself later."
So I tested it. 70 startup codebases. 146 funding rounds.
Messy code + fast shipping = 60.6% funded.
Cleanest codebases = 44.4%.
Speed beat perfection - at least when capital was cheap.
Full analysis & data: bytevagabond.com/post/technic...
So I tested it. 70 startup codebases. 146 funding rounds.
Messy code + fast shipping = 60.6% funded.
Cleanest codebases = 44.4%.
Speed beat perfection - at least when capital was cheap.
Full analysis & data: bytevagabond.com/post/technic...
I Analyzed 70 Startups' Codebases — The Ones With More Technical Debt Raised More Money
An empirical study of 70 VC-backed companies reveals that technical debt doesn't slow startups down, and the 'move fast and break things' crowd was right all along — at least during the ZIRP era.
bytevagabond.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:32 AM
"Write clean code. You'll thank yourself later."
So I tested it. 70 startup codebases. 146 funding rounds.
Messy code + fast shipping = 60.6% funded.
Cleanest codebases = 44.4%.
Speed beat perfection - at least when capital was cheap.
Full analysis & data: bytevagabond.com/post/technic...
So I tested it. 70 startup codebases. 146 funding rounds.
Messy code + fast shipping = 60.6% funded.
Cleanest codebases = 44.4%.
Speed beat perfection - at least when capital was cheap.
Full analysis & data: bytevagabond.com/post/technic...
theyre forcing me to work on rust codebases 😢
March 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
theyre forcing me to work on rust codebases 😢
my version of “phone” versus “big computer” tasks are vscode codebases and JetBrains codebases
September 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
my version of “phone” versus “big computer” tasks are vscode codebases and JetBrains codebases
as satisfying an idea as that is, it's very much a crime and also Codebases Do Not Work That Way
September 23, 2026 at 8:48 AM
as satisfying an idea as that is, it's very much a crime and also Codebases Do Not Work That Way
Looking at a new-to-you codebase like this: 🫣?
Don’t be intimidated! GitHub engineer @brittanyellich.com has proven techniques to help you navigate new codebases with confidence. 🗺️ 💪
Don’t be intimidated! GitHub engineer @brittanyellich.com has proven techniques to help you navigate new codebases with confidence. 🗺️ 💪
How GitHub engineers learn new codebases
Strategies to quickly get up to speed, whether you're a seasoned engineer or a newcomer to the field.
github.blog
March 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Looking at a new-to-you codebase like this: 🫣?
Don’t be intimidated! GitHub engineer @brittanyellich.com has proven techniques to help you navigate new codebases with confidence. 🗺️ 💪
Don’t be intimidated! GitHub engineer @brittanyellich.com has proven techniques to help you navigate new codebases with confidence. 🗺️ 💪
the trick is no one in their right mind wants to replace any existing COBOL codebases, least of all with anything written by an AI.
February 23, 2026 at 8:17 PM
the trick is no one in their right mind wants to replace any existing COBOL codebases, least of all with anything written by an AI.
im afraid that it is very funny to me to be precious about ai-tainted code in indie games, a field of endeavour famously known for shipping superfund codebases
September 18, 2026 at 12:01 AM
im afraid that it is very funny to me to be precious about ai-tainted code in indie games, a field of endeavour famously known for shipping superfund codebases
I miss functional programming. It is exhausting updating side effecting codebases.
August 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I miss functional programming. It is exhausting updating side effecting codebases.
Credo 1.7.15 is out now, with massive perf improvements for large #ElixirLang codebases.
Got a few PRs in flight for Credo which cumulatively dropped the runtime from ~33 seconds down to ~9 on our 3500 file #ElixirLang codebase at work. 😁
December 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Credo 1.7.15 is out now, with massive perf improvements for large #ElixirLang codebases.
you can now distill codebases
July 26, 2026 at 2:31 AM
you can now distill codebases
📚 Obscure #Minecraft Fact 📚
At one point, there were 3 codebases (Console, Java, Pocket/Bedrock) & all of them had different implementations of redstone. 😂
I was the keeper of the spreadsheet that tracked parity differences across the codebases. It took me ~2 weeks to write & verify.
At one point, there were 3 codebases (Console, Java, Pocket/Bedrock) & all of them had different implementations of redstone. 😂
I was the keeper of the spreadsheet that tracked parity differences across the codebases. It took me ~2 weeks to write & verify.
January 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
📚 Obscure #Minecraft Fact 📚
At one point, there were 3 codebases (Console, Java, Pocket/Bedrock) & all of them had different implementations of redstone. 😂
I was the keeper of the spreadsheet that tracked parity differences across the codebases. It took me ~2 weeks to write & verify.
At one point, there were 3 codebases (Console, Java, Pocket/Bedrock) & all of them had different implementations of redstone. 😂
I was the keeper of the spreadsheet that tracked parity differences across the codebases. It took me ~2 weeks to write & verify.
March 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I assume that the existing codebases and databases are in off-site backups, which is why we need to save the off-site backups.
February 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I assume that the existing codebases and databases are in off-site backups, which is why we need to save the off-site backups.
there should be more online services with codebases built out of C, Bash and PHP trying desperately to communicate with each other
June 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
there should be more online services with codebases built out of C, Bash and PHP trying desperately to communicate with each other
A quarter of Y-Combinator’s W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI. The interesting question is what their codebases and products look like a year from now.
Writing new code is easy. Maintaining and evolving it is the hard part.
Writing new code is easy. Maintaining and evolving it is the hard part.
A quarter of startups in YC's current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated | TechCrunch
With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code. One of the newest examples is the
techcrunch.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
A quarter of Y-Combinator’s W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI. The interesting question is what their codebases and products look like a year from now.
Writing new code is easy. Maintaining and evolving it is the hard part.
Writing new code is easy. Maintaining and evolving it is the hard part.
finally, we’ve automated making shit codebases
May 3, 2026 at 8:55 PM
finally, we’ve automated making shit codebases
Men will randomly generate large codebases instead of going to therapy
July 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Men will randomly generate large codebases instead of going to therapy
genAI is pretty good at writing emails, but kinda bad at writing, say, entire stories. it's pretty good at writing short code snippets, but kinda bad at handling larger, complex codebases.
i think it pretty much works the same way for art, too
i think it pretty much works the same way for art, too
May 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
genAI is pretty good at writing emails, but kinda bad at writing, say, entire stories. it's pretty good at writing short code snippets, but kinda bad at handling larger, complex codebases.
i think it pretty much works the same way for art, too
i think it pretty much works the same way for art, too
not to defend AI (which does make this problem worse) but there were many codebases where this was true before AI happened
the nastiest thing about ai code bases is no human has expertise in that code base. nobody can maintain it except more ai. insane thing to lock yourself into.
June 13, 2026 at 4:04 AM
not to defend AI (which does make this problem worse) but there were many codebases where this was true before AI happened
One of the biggest, real-world Elixir codebases to be open sourced. This is huge.
Semaphore has open sourced its CI/CD platform under Apache 2.0 in a new GitHub repository: github.com/semaphoreio/...
Probably the biggest #ElixirLang / Phoenix app? @josevalim.bsky.social
Probably the biggest #ElixirLang / Phoenix app? @josevalim.bsky.social
GitHub - semaphoreio/semaphore: Semaphore is an open source CI/CD platform. Self-host Semaphore on your own servers or on a cloud provider.
Semaphore is an open source CI/CD platform. Self-host Semaphore on your own servers or on a cloud provider. - semaphoreio/semaphore
github.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
One of the biggest, real-world Elixir codebases to be open sourced. This is huge.
we are corrupting the invisible metasubtext of all our codebases with ai tooling
July 7, 2026 at 3:47 AM
we are corrupting the invisible metasubtext of all our codebases with ai tooling