Libghostty is coming(mitchellh.com)

774 points by kingori 1 year ago | 243 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing libghostty, starting with libghostty-vt, a zero-dependency library for parsing terminal sequences and maintaining terminal state.

Everyone should know SIMD(mitchellh.com)

568 points by WadeGrimridge 3 months ago | 211 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto blog post arguing SIMD is simple to learn and showing the common shape of SIMD code for speeding up loops.

Zig builds are getting faster(mitchellh.com)

409 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 191 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post describing how Zig 0.15.1 has improved build times, using the Ghostty project's upgrade as an example.

Ghostty is leaving GitHub(mitchellh.com)

3380 points by WadeGrimridge 6 months ago | 1008 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post announcing that the Ghostty terminal emulator project is moving off GitHub, reflecting on his long history with the platform.

Reorient GitHub pull requests around changesets(mitchellh.com)

192 points by jamesog 3 years ago | 155 comments

My approach to building large technical projects(mitchellh.com)

173 points by akalin 3 years ago | 19 comments

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work(seangoedecke.com)

1015 points by dondraper36 1 year ago | 364 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

AI is making me dumb(jpain.io)

407 points by Eighth 5 months ago | 247 comments

A personal blog post in which a software developer argues that relying on AI for writing code, articles, and documents is eroding his own writing and programming skills.

Challenge Is Gone(blog.alxgsv.com)

46 points by alxgsv 1 day ago | 84 comments

Personal blog essay by Uploadcare CTO Alex Gusev reflecting that AI coding agents have removed the engineering challenge that once motivated him.

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 7 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.