Books I read (January - July 2026)

January
- The Fraud, Zadie Smith
- Son de Mar, Manuel Vicent
- Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Misterios de Madrid, Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World, Donald Sull, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
- The war of art, Steven Pressfield
- Solving the procrastination puzzle, Timothy A. Pychyl

February
- Ava en la noche, Manuel Vicent
- Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Saturday night and Sunday morning, Alan Sillitoe
- Vibe Coding, Gene Kim, Steve Yegge

March
- Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In, Brett Bartholomew
- How to Understand Almost Anything: A Practitioner's Guide to Domain Analysis, Markus Voelter
- Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future, Olaf Stapledon

April
- Architecting for Scale 2nd Edition, Lee Atchison
- Birthday, Alan Sillitoe

May
- Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- El primer siglo después de Beatrice (Le premier siècle apès Beatrice), Amin Maalouf
- Methuselah's children, Robert A. Heinlein
- Extremophile, Ian Green
- Understanding Distributed Systems 2nd Edition, Roberto Vitillo

June
- Las escalas de Levante (Les Échelles du Levant), Amin Maalouf
- AI changes the Tools, you still own the Craft, Hoang Nguyen
- Nonstop, Brian Aldiss
- Earth abides, George R. Stewart
- Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
- Halcyon Years, Alastair Reynolds

July
- Children of Strife, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Jamás tendré 20 años, Jaime Martín
- Jóvenes Hombres lobo (Werewolves in Their Youth), Michael Chabon

Books I read (January - June 2026)

January
- The Fraud, Zadie Smith
- Son de Mar, Manuel Vicent
- Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Misterios de Madrid, Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World, Donald Sull, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
- The war of art, Steven Pressfield
- Solving the procrastination puzzle, Timothy A. Pychyl

February
- Ava en la noche, Manuel Vicent
- Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Saturday night and Sunday morning, Alan Sillitoe
- Vibe Coding, Gene Kim, Steve Yegge

March
- Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In, Brett Bartholomew
- How to Understand Almost Anything: A Practitioner's Guide to Domain Analysis, Markus Voelter
- Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future, Olaf Stapledon

April
- Architecting for Scale 2nd Edition, Lee Atchison
- Birthday, Alan Sillitoe

May
- Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- El primer siglo después de Beatrice (Le premier siècle apès Beatrice), Amin Maalouf
- Methuselah's children, Robert A. Heinlein
- Extremophile, Ian Green
- Understanding Distributed Systems 2nd Edition, Roberto Vitillo

June
- Las escalas de Levante (Les Échelles du Levant), Amin Maalouf
- AI changes the Tools, you still own the Craft, Hoang Nguyen
- Nonstop, Brian Aldiss
- Earth abides, George R. Stewart
- Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
- Halcyon Years, Alastair Reynolds

Books I read (January - May 2026)

January
- The Fraud, Zadie Smith
- Son de Mar, Manuel Vicent
- Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Misterios de Madrid, Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World, Donald Sull, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
- The war of art, Steven Pressfield
- Solving the procrastination puzzle, Timothy A. Pychyl

February
- Ava en la noche, Manuel Vicent
- Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Saturday night and Sunday morning, Alan Sillitoe
- Vibe Coding, Gene Kim, Steve Yegge

March
- Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In, Brett Bartholomew
- How to Understand Almost Anything: A Practitioner's Guide to Domain Analysis, Markus Voelter
- Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future, Olaf Stapledon

April
- Architecting for Scale 2nd Edition, Lee Atchison
- Birthday, Alan Sillitoe

May
- Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- El primer siglo después de Beatrice (Le premier siècle apès Beatrice), Amin Maalouf
- Methuselah's children, Robert A. Heinlein
- Extremophile, Ian Green
- Understanding Distributed Systems 2nd Edition, Roberto Vitillo

Books I read (January - March 2026)

January
- The Fraud, Zadie Smith
- Son de Mar, Manuel Vicent
- Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Misterios de Madrid, Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World, Donald Sull, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
- The war of art, Steven Pressfield
- Solving the procrastination puzzle, Timothy A. Pychyl

February
- Ava en la noche, Manuel Vicent
- Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Saturday night and Sunday morning, Alan Sillitoe
- Vibe Coding, Gene Kim, Steve Yegge

March
- Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In, Brett Bartholomew
- How to Understand Almost Anything: A Practitioner's Guide to Domain Analysis, Markus Voelter
- Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future, Olaf Stapledon

Relevant Mutants in a Flash

Relevant Mutants.

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• Not all surviving mutants indicate weaknesses in tests.
• Not relevant surviving mutants (don’t signal any test weakness):

  • Ignore these ones:

    • In dead code (unreachable code)
    • In legacy seams (intentionally excluded from test execution).
    • Code not used because of legacy seams (also intentional).

  • Mutants in superfluous code:

    • They survive because the mutation did not change any behavior.
    • Still useful 💰: signal a possible simplification (refactoring opportunity).
• Relevant surviving mutants 💰: reveal genuine gaps in the test suite
  • e.g. missing boundaries, too lenient assertions, etc.
• Read Relevant Mutants.

Books I read (January - February 2026)

January
- The Fraud, Zadie Smith
- Son de Mar, Manuel Vicent
- Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Misterios de Madrid, Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World, Donald Sull, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
- The war of art, Steven Pressfield
- Solving the procrastination puzzle, Timothy A. Pychyl

February
- Ava en la noche, Manuel Vicent
- Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Saturday night and Sunday morning, Alan Sillitoe
- Vibe Coding, Gene Kim, Steve Yegge

Interesting Talk: No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases

I've just watched this great talk by Dex Horthy

• No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases

Interesting Talk: From Vibe Coding To Vibe Engineering

I've just watched this funny talk by Kitze:

• From Vibe Coding To Vibe Engineering

Interesting Video: Does Code Quality Matter When AI Writes the Code?

I've just watched this interesting video by Tim Corey

• Does Code Quality Matter When AI Writes the Code?

Interesting Talk: Making Codebases Agent Ready

I've just watched this great talk by Eno Reyes

• Making Codebases Agent Ready

Interesting Talk: Can you prove AI ROI in Software Eng?

I've just watched this great talk by Yegor Denisov-Blanch

• Can you prove AI ROI in Software Eng? (Stanford 120k Devs Study)

This is a continuation of the study that appears in his previous talk: Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study)

Interesting Talk: Using AI to Refactor Legacy Code: A Practical Guide

I've just watched this interesting talk by Scott Wierschem:

• Using AI to Refactor Legacy Code: A Practical Guide

Interesting Talk: Don’t get one-shotted: Use AI to test, review, merge, and deploy code

I've just watched this interesting talk by Tomas Reimers:

• Don’t get one-shotted: Use AI to test, review, merge, and deploy code

Interesting video: Claude Code is all you need in 2026

I've just watched this interesting video by Brian Casel

• Claude Code is all you need in 2026

Interesting Talk: Dispatch from the Future: building an AI-native Company

I've just watched this interesting talk by Dan Shipper:

• Dispatch from the Future: building an AI-native Company

Interesting Talk: Vibe coding and the evolution of developer experience tools

I've just watched this interesting talk by Harsha Shivanna:

• Vibe coding and the evolution of developer experience tools

Interesting Interview: Vibe Coding Solved What I Couldn't in 13 YEARS

I've just watched this great interview with Gene Kim on Tech Lead Journal channel

• Vibe Coding Solved What I Couldn't in 13 YEARS

Interesting Video: When to Vibe Code?

I've just watched this super interesting video by Graham Lee on a new dimension of technical debt in vibe-coded solutions:

• When to Vibe Code?

Interesting Talk: From autocomplete to agents: AI coding assistance state of play

I've just watched this interesting talk by Birgitta Böckeler

• From autocomplete to agents: AI coding assistance state of play

Interesting Talk: Automated software refactoring with OpenRewrite and OpenAI

I've just watched this interesting talk by Olga Kundzich and Sam Snyder

• Automated software refactoring with OpenRewrite and OpenAI