I noticed that Microsoft Copilot parses and renders Markdown text on the fly and wondered about why. Building AI-powered Microsoft Copilot with SignalR and other open-source tools goes into the why and how.

Let’s compile like it’s 1992

Robin Sloan: Are AI Language Models In Hell?

You can write bad code in any language. But at least with Whitespace you won’t have to look at it.

It seems that ChatGPT has learned to wind down for the year.

GitHub migrated their entire database fleet with zero downtime. The secret: lots of time testing and careful work.

Between testing, performance tuning, and resolving identified issues, the overall upgrade process took over a year and involved engineers from multiple teams at GitHub. We upgraded our entire fleet to MySQL 8.0 – including staging clusters, production clusters in support of GitHub.com, and instances in support of internal tools. This upgrade highlighted the importance of our observability platform, testing plan, and rollback capabilities. The testing and gradual rollout strategy allowed us to identify problems early and reduce the likelihood for encountering new failure modes for the primary upgrade.

Youtuber Alexander the OK has produced a very nerdy deep dive into how the original version of Elite for the BBC Micro was written. It’s titled Elite - “The game that couldn’t be written and it’s just fantastic.