This is a short release note, not an argument. If you use IntelliJ, RustRover, GoLand or WebStorm and you’ve been curious about forge, this is the release that gives you a preview pane. forge is …
A cron line looks like a latency setting. 0 * * * * reads as “check every hour, so nothing waits long.” In a private repository it’s also a purchase order, and it reorders every hour …
A tool that says “I don’t know” is annoying. A tool that guesses, and returns the guess in the same shape and the same confident tone as a fact, is worse than useless — because the …
Configuration is the tax you pay for not knowing who your user is. It has always been priced into the cost of building software, so we stopped noticing it was there. Build something for exactly one …
An agent decides it is done when the checks it can run come back green. Every one of those checks is a question about the repository it is standing in. The team that generates a client from your …
Types made “this value is a string” checkable. Tests made behaviour checkable. Nothing ever made “the API layer must not talk to the data layer” checkable — cheaply, across …
The reading order problem Stock Rust testing is fine, in the sense that a hammer is fine. You get assert!, assert_eq!, assert_ne!, and the #[test] attribute. Everything past that — better diffs, …
MCP server configs across the ecosystem default to npx. That quietly forces a Node runtime onto every machine that wants to run a native binary tool. bx is the missing primitive for the other case. I …
Most code review tools want to be a service. The interesting question is what falls out when you refuse to run one — and use git itself as the sync layer instead. I’ve spent the last few weeks …
A Rust-Native Architecture Toolchain: forge, puml, and adoc Replacing the JVM and Ruby pieces of the architecture documentation stack with single static binaries Most of the tools I reach for when …