Dead Code seeks to extract the good ideas from the chaos of modern software development. Hosted by @jardonamron.
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Jun 12
AI didn’t just change how software gets built. It changed how communities have to defend themselves.
Joan Westenberg discusses how AI-generated spam is reshaping moderation and why many of the internet communities we remember fondly would be much harder to build today.
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Jun 10
The biggest communities rarely start with a master plan. They start because someone finds a place they love, invites other people in, and slowly creates a home.
Joan Westenberg explains why community can’t simply be designed into existence.
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Jun 9
It doesn't even take a weekend to vibe code a Hacker News clone. What you can’t generate with a prompt is the reason people come back.
Joan Westenberg on why community is harder to build than software.
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May 1
Testing in Rails usually forces a tradeoff. Factories are flexible but slow. Fixtures are fast but messy.
Kasper Timm Hansen built something that tries to fix both. Oaken is a different way of thinking about test data entirely.
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Apr 29
What if your dependencies were so small… that you weren’t afraid of them?
Kasper Timm Hansen talks about why he aggressively limits lines of code and keeps gems tiny on purpose. Smaller code is easier to trust, understand, and even take over.
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Apr 24
One of the biggest challenges in Rails apps: your models never stop growing. User. Account. Order. They just keep expanding.
Kasper Timm Hansen explains why the real job is breaking things apart before they get out of control.
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Apr 22
What’s the difference between a concept and an abstraction?
One has direction. The other can feel like loose parts.
Kasper Timm Hansen uses a simple analogy to explain why most code feels harder than it should. Better modeling starts with clearer ideas.
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Apr 22
After leaving Rails Core, Kasper Timm Hansen started building much smaller tools. Not bigger frameworks. Not complex systems.
Small gems with very specific ideas behind them. He explains why those tiny projects can actually have more impact.
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Apr 17
An entire CPU emulator. Written in CSS.
Lyra explains how you can compile C code and run it without touching JavaScript at all.
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Apr 15
What if the problem isn’t CSS… what if it’s how we think about CSS? Lyra talks about how treating it like a “not real language” limits what developers even try to build.
That mindset leaves a lot of capability on the table.
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