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M is just some guy, you know?

[mguymguy]

Watch out for Hades According to Reddit, horrible people have made a nasty supply-chain attack called Hades: Looks like it's marked at this time by:... https://mrmurphy.dev/watch-out-for-hades/

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[mguymguy]

When there's this much money and power at stake, I suspect there aren't really any big companies that are the "good guys", but when Anthropic is spending money and attention on things like this, it does a lot to sway my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Og7SOFZ1voA https://mrmurphy.dev/1257-2/

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[mguymguy]

I want to trust AI with code enough that I'm no longer doing line-by-line reviews. But when I look at the code, even from frontier models, I'm still finding small things that feel smelly. In a simple PR Sonnet 4.6 made, I just found it changing the default mock data constructor for all existing test cases away from the common case to a less-common scenario. All the existing tests passed because they asserted on things that weren't changed. The update was technically sound, but it's the kind of change that would feel weird to a human if they came across it later. https://mrmurphy.dev/1241-2/

[mguymguy]

Untitled Diving into test assertions is a good way to focus on the verifiability of a PR when doing AI-assisted reviews.... https://mrmurphy.dev/1226-2/

[mguymguy]

We’re zooming out a step I'm slowly watching, feeling out the shape of this wave that we're all riding together. I'm sensing an order-of-magnitude zoom-out when it comes to the relationship between our brains and the code we manage.... https://mrmurphy.dev/were-zooming-out-a-step/

We're zooming out a step

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[odinsblog]

In 2012, NASA moved the space shuttle Endeavour through the streets of Los Angeles to the California Science Center.

[mguymguy]

Existential Dread

Yesterday, like many of you, I read about Jack Dorsey announcing the end of employment for 4,000 people at Blocks after a strong year of profit increases. It’s another splash in the pool of anxiety engineers and creatives alike are swimming in as we watch the astoundingly fast evolution of AI agents. Rumination How do we process this? Thousands of our career-siblings loosing the employment that…

Existential Dread

[mguymguy]

prquicktest: Run Your PR's Testing Instructions

We’ve been sneakily improving our manual verification process for server PRs over the past few weeks. Sneakily, because it hasn’t been planned, just experiments snuck into the gaps here and there. One of those experiments happened today. Here’s how it works: Preview environments: We’ve had this for a while, and it’s important. Render.com deploys a preview environment for each pull request, so…

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[mguymguy]

prquicktest: Run Your PR's Testing Instructions

We’ve been sneakily improving our manual verification process for server PRs over the past few weeks. Sneakily, because it hasn’t been planned, just experiments snuck into the gaps here and there. One of those experiments happened today. Here’s how it works: Preview environments: We’ve had this for a while, and it’s important. Render.com deploys a preview environment for each pull request, so…

[mguymguy]

Freeing Up Flow With Claude Code & Linear MCP

I’ve been experimenting with using Claude Code to create Linear issues instead of filling them out by hand, and it’s been a bigger workflow upgrade than I’d expected it to be. Too often I’ve made or come across Linear issues that are just a line or two, jotted down from someone’s memory and now turned inscrutable. Having Claude flesh out the details is a relief, especially when it then includes…

[mguymguy]

Claude Code Hooks for Fun and Focus

My attention wanders. A lot. I’ll kick off a Claude Code session, switch to check on something else, and 20 minutes later realize I’ve got a forlorn Claude tab that’s been waiting for approval for …19 minutes. A notification beep doesn’t help much—it starts a quick game of “which tab was that?”. Not a huge time sink, since it takes only a moment to find the tab. But those moments build up over…

Claude Code Hooks for Fun and Focus

[liberalsarecool]

DEI does not mean lower standards.

You are thinking of white privilege.

[ironicallydumb]

[bodhrancomedy]

I’m angry with myself for not feeling up to properly fighting back on the Supreme Court ruling on trans rights, but I do keep seeing the words “feel safe” and it’s stabbing me in the brain a bit.

[guerrillatech]

[viralfrog]