Visual Studio October Update – Compare Commits to Your Code, Resolve Conflicts in Bulk, Keep Coding - Visual Studio Blog

kept by eddie oct 28

Visual Studio's October update adds compare-commit-to-working-tree, bulk merge conflict resolution, a new Copilot chat experience, Hot Exit, keyboard tab reordering, and refreshed Fonts and Colors.

Running an AI-native engineering org
An Anthropic engineering leader describes how agentic coding shifted bottlenecks from writing code to verification, and outlines new norms for planning, review, context gathering, and team roles.
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The Law of Leaky Abstractions – Joel on Software
Joel Spolsky argues that every non-trivial abstraction inevitably leaks, using TCP, virtual memory, SQL, and C++ strings as examples, and warns that ignoring underlying details invites hidden complexity.
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What are git worktrees, and why should I use them? - The GitHub Blog
Git worktrees let developers work on multiple branches simultaneously without stashing or context-switching, with each branch in its own folder.
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