Lab Notebooks (2020)(sambleckley.com)

125 points by momonga 2 years ago | 56 comments

Acquia, my Drupal startup(dri.es)

32 points by taubek 2 years ago | 53 comments

Standard Ebooks Serves millions of Requests per Month with a 2GB VPS (2022)(alexcabal.com)

15 points by alexzeitler 2 years ago | 2 comments

Retaking the web browser, one small step at a time(andregarzia.com)

69 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 40 comments

The deskilling of web dev is harming us all(baldurbjarnason.com)

8 points by loop22 2 years ago | 0 comments

The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus(baldurbjarnason.com)

108 points by zzzeek 2 years ago | 83 comments

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.

Fuck it, make it anyway(joelotter.com)

504 points by JayOtter 1 month ago | 495 comments

A personal blog essay by indie game developer Joel Auterson encouraging people to make their creative projects anyway despite doubts.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

Do your own writing(alexhwoods.com)

690 points by karimf 7 months ago | 222 comments

Blog post by Alex Woods arguing against using LLMs to write documents and essays, since writing is a way to think and build trust.

Programming Isn't Special(blog.glyph.im)

219 points by ingve 17 days ago | 236 comments

Blog post by Glyph arguing that programming is creative work like art and that programmers should resist AI as artists and writers have.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.