Stereographer(engineersneedart.com)

48 points by msephton 2 years ago | 21 comments

Tom Dowdy (2022)(engineersneedart.com)

20 points by tambourine_man 2 years ago | 3 comments

Move Fast and Abandon Things(engineersneedart.com)

415 points by JKCalhoun 2 years ago | 193 comments

A blog post by the author of Glider recalling unfinished Mac games he wrote decades ago, recovered from old hard drives and shared as disk images for emulators.

Why Janet?(ianthehenry.com)

344 points by ianthehenry 3 years ago | 112 comments

Ian Henry's blog post making the case for the Janet Lisp dialect as a simple, fun language for side projects, promoting his free book about it.

A grumpy screed about AI in software engineering(sam.sutch.net)

39 points by ssutch3 3 months ago | 28 comments

The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon(seangoedecke.com)

122 points by jxmorris12 5 months ago | 103 comments

Hello, me. It's been a while(themech.net)

336 points by somesoftdev 2 months ago | 178 comments

A personal blog post in which a programmer returns after fourteen years to reflect on filling every quiet moment with podcasts, audiobooks, and social media.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

20 years working on the same software product(successfulsoftware.net)

431 points by hermitcrab 1 year ago | 149 comments

A Successful Software blog post reflecting on 20 years of developing and selling the same software product as an independent developer.

A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago(mbuffett.com)

493 points by marcusbuffett 2 years ago | 289 comments

A personal blog post in which a programmer lists advice he would give his younger self, such as fixing recurring team problems at their root.

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)

1029 points by poisonfountain 4 months ago | 967 comments

A personal blog post by a software engineer with 10 years of experience reflecting on how LLMs are eroding their career and their uncertainty about what to do.

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.