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dev.to > oleg_merkulov > a-turing-machine-in-minecraft-2120

A Turing Machine in Minecraft

21+ hour ago   (370+ words) This is an English translation of my original article on Habr, originally published in Russian. A... Tagged with showdev, minecraft, computerscience, programming....

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dev.to > mahirhir > both-verifiers-were-honest-agreed-with-each-other-and-the-signatures-still-failed-503n

Both verifiers were honest, agreed with each other, and the signatures still failed

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (576+ words) Forty signed records stopped verifying. Two independent verifiers said so. Neither of them was wrong, and neither of them could tell me why. The recipe both tools implement is sha256(public_key || header). I checked it by hand against the code and against…...

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dev.to > mahirhir > a-red-gate-and-a-silent-one-turned-out-to-mean-the-same-thing-2age

A red gate and a silent one turned out to mean the same thing

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1328+ words) I wrote up an incident here a couple of days ago: CI on a Rust project I maintain showed red for weeks, and not one of those jobs had ever started. The cause was billing. The scheduler was refusing each…...

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dev.to > datacpp_8185 > the-gate-rejected-nothing-so-i-injected-40-bugs-to-see-if-it-could-4ecg

The Gate Rejected Nothing. So I Injected 40 Bugs to See If It Could.

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (982+ words) An agent-patch gate that never rejects a patch is a hypothesis, not a control. You cannot measure what it catches until you give it something to catch. So I stopped trusting real patches and started manufacturing failures. The method that…...

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dev.to > thebraindonor > introducing-crypts-and-commits-3igo

Introducing Crypts and Commits

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1390+ words) The Audience I Didn't Know I Had — Part One There is a lot of conversation right now about one developer coordinating forty coding agents. I am not going to pretend I know whether that is good or bad. It is…...

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dev.to > juangcarmona > define-once-cite-everywhere-eg2

Define once, cite everywhere

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (180+ words) Run this on any repo doing spec-driven development: Same rule, three specs, three wordings — and two meanings. 30 days from purchase is not 30 days from delivery. Nobody decided that fork. A coding agent paraphrased it into existence, and no human caught…...