Engineering Buy-In(venki.dev)
8 points by venkii | 0 comments
8 points by venkii | 0 comments
683 points by surprisetalk | 462 comments
A satirical blog post on taylor.town about a fictional developer who spent 35 years in a legacy medical software codebase and retires having grasped 4% of it.
30 points by kiyanwang | 34 comments
47 points by fside | 53 comments
334 points by danielvaughn | 178 comments
Blog post introducing Huzzah, an experimental editor where you write pseudocode that is synced to real source code by AI on save, with the pseudocode kept as intent.
782 points by wonger_ | 363 comments
A humorous blog post parodying how developer-written tutorials full of jargon read to a non-developer beginner.
336 points by calcifer | 311 comments
A satirical blog post listing ironic tips on how to be anti-social, such as assuming malice, avoiding challenges to assumptions, and digging in against dissent.
369 points by UglyToad | 199 comments
Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.
365 points by yamrzou | 169 comments
Haseeb Qureshi's blog post laying out ten rules for negotiating a job offer, drawing on his experience landing a job at Airbnb.
541 points by vanburen | 321 comments
Personal blog post recounting how the author was laid off from Google after a long 2022 hiring process, before ever starting the job.
379 points by jcartw | 62 comments
Ben Eater's project page documenting how to build a programmable 8-bit computer on breadboards from simple logic gates, with videos, parts lists, and schematics.