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Andreas Gohr
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A while back I listened to a Pragmatic Engineer podcast with Peter Steinberger about his AI-native development workflow – the one where he runs 5-10 coding agents in parallel and ships code he doesn't personally read. The headline...
A common financial trick is to have a bunch of uncorrelated assets that you balance over time. Assume you have access to assets A and B, with about similar returns. You can have a portfolio of 50% A and 50% B. If A gets overweight,...
I’ve been in Bangkok the last two weeks, and three times in the last six months. The city is incredible. It’s well over 10 million people, approaching that of Istanbul, which is the largest city in all of Europe. After a certain...
Principal Software Engineer · Durham, NC I'm a dad in perpetual training, a curious software engineer, a Marine Corps veteran, and a consummate bro. I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Clever, where I work on systems that handle...
The Arch User Repository (AUR) is a collection of user-contributed source packages for Arch Linux. These packages, which may be submitted by anyone without review, simply consist of package metadata, and instructions for downloading and...
TL;DR QCon is one of my favourite events, and I’ve been to a lot of them over the years. 2026 was the best yet, so kudos to the programme committee and C4media organisers. The most fun bit was hosting the security track, where I got to...
A little over a week ago, as I was getting into the car with my kid to drive to his school, where I work as the Lower School librarian (serving grades 1-4), I got a text from the head teacher. (Sort of like a principal.) I thought, “Well...
There is little doubt in my mind that AI coding models have fundamentally changed the nature of software development in 2026. But is the SaaS-pocalypse real? I think it kinda is, for some businesses. A history lesson from an elder...
Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI: Atlassian is changing its data contribution policy so that, starting August 17, 2026, it will use customer metadata and in-app content from Jira, Confluence, and other Atlassian...
PHP version stats: July, 2026 Written on 2026-07-09 Welcome back to another blog post about PHP's version usage across the community. You can read the previous edition here, but as always I'll include historic data in this post as well....
Some days all I can say is ay yi yi. Or oy. Or fuuuuuuuuck. You know, those wordless expressions of mostly-vowel sounds the outbreathing of which, the offgassing of which you hope will take away some of the poison, some of the poison...
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, in its simplest form, is the idea that the language you speak influences the thoughts you think. This post is about a twist on this idea, that I’m calling “Inverse Sapir-Whorf” (for want of a better term), and...
Someone submitted an issue to one of our open GitHub repositories a week ago, suggesting a new feature. We didn’t respond, since we didn’t notice it. Today, someone else submitted an implementation of the feature in a pull request. I...
Hi, my friends! I can’t believe we are halfway through the year already and this is my first time writing up a new blog for you. To say life has been busy would be an understatement. Now that things have slowed down a little, I hope to...
When I was in middle school and high school, my parents didn’t allow me to drink soda. But they had a secret stash of Coca-Cola in the garage fridge. I still don’t know why it was there. My parents didn’t drink soda. Maybe it was for...