3. Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)

mine is an integrated development environment for Coalton and Common Lisp for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
πŸ‘‰ Download the latest release.
mine comes in two flavors:
mine-app for Windows and macOS is a complete, all-in-one, packaged application with no dependencies. It Just Worksβ„’, or it’s a bug. mine-core for Windows, macOS, and Linux is a hacker-friendly β€œbring your own compliant terminal” variant. It allows you to use mine at the command line, but requires a terminal that has a Unicode font and supports the Kitty keyboard protocol. Coalton and Common Lisp Coalton? Common Lisp? Both? The editor is exclusive to neither, and both come built-in. If you want strong, static types with a flavor of functional programming, Coalton is available. If you want free-wheeling dynamicism and an advanced object system, Common Lisp is available. You can use one, the other, or mix-and-match as your project demands.

4. Commenting and Approving Pull Requests (www.jakeworth.com)

After reviewing a lot of pull requests, I’ve settled on a simple default: if my comments are all nitpicks, suggestions, questions, or non-blocking issues, I leave them and approve the PR at the same time.

8. How Hard Is It to Open a File? (blog.sebastianwick.net)

It’s a question I had to ask myself multiple times over the last few months. Depending on the context the answer can be:
very simple, just call the standard library function extremely hard, don’t trust anything If you are an app developer, you’re lucky and it’s almost always the first answer. If you develop something with a security boundary which involves files in any way, the correct answer is very likely the second one.

9. You don't want long-lived keys (argemma.com)

The security of keys and credentials is a function of time. You can, and should, avoid most long-lived keys and replace them with ephemeral credentials.

13. What's Missing in the 'Agentic' Story (www.mnot.net)

Every online interaction is a lopsided negotiation. For AI to truly work for us, we need more than just safety -- we need to start building true agency as a form of collective bargaining.

18. A Man Who Invented the Future (hedgehogreview.com)

Francis Bacon is arguably the philosopher most responsible for championing the empirical technocracy that our world has largely become.

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