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Jul 1

All you need is Claude (🎵Naaah na-na-na-na🎶)

Vibe-coding a choral typesetter: the good, the bad, and the unutterably wretched

All you need is Claude (🎵Naaah na-na-na-na🎶)

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Mar 20

Q-day is coming, ready or not!

We have known for a decade that quantum computers, someday, will be able to break the world’s encryption. Someday is closer than the world…

Q-day is coming, ready or not!

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Feb 9

Rust? Oh, for the love of C…!

Rust has everything which (in my opinion) a civilised language should have: memory safety, no nulls or exceptions, and immutability by…

Rust? Oh, for the love of C…!

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Dec 12, 2025

AI’s real threat is not what you think

We are told that increasingly capable AI is poised to completely remake society — or even utterly destroy it. But I don’t believe that. I…

AI’s real threat is not what you think

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Oct 16, 2025

Vibe coding: the antidote

LLMs have shown themselves to be a terrible way to write programs. But the problem they address is real, and we aren’t solving it any other…

Vibe coding: the antidote

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Sep 29, 2025

It’s all going to be fine!

Seven reasons why you don’t need to worry about your website’s security.

It’s all going to be fine!

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Sep 12, 2025

The un-hackable database

Make sure your persistent data stays complete, correct, and confidential, no matter what.

The un-hackable database

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Aug 21, 2025

How not to get hacked

It seems almost every day brings news of another big hack, wrecking companies and compromising customers. How do systems administrators…

How not to get hacked

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Aug 4, 2025

LLM + TDD = NBG

What happens when you ask an LLM to program using TDD? It doesn’t listen. It behaves no better than a spoiled, arroant child.

LLM + TDD = NBG

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Jun 24, 2025

Yes, failure is an option

It’s simple: if we want to write software that doesn’t go wrong, we have to stop writing software that’s designed to go wrong.

Yes, failure is an option

Jules May

Jules May

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A software developer and consultant specialising in reliability, compilers, and mathematical software. https://julesmay.co.uk

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