Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing(devblogs.microsoft.com)

175 points by Sindisil 3 years ago | 70 comments

Why doesn't Windows have an "expert mode"? (2003)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

40 points by scaglio 2 years ago | 34 comments

What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it(devblogs.microsoft.com)

104 points by luu 2 years ago | 141 comments

DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility easier, but with higher stakes(devblogs.microsoft.com)

224 points by zdw 3 years ago | 79 comments

The great Polish Sea or We forgot Poland (2006)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

116 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 25 comments

What happens when you shift a register by more than the register size?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

90 points by signa11 3 years ago | 58 comments

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them(matthewsinclair.com)

323 points by matthewsinclair 1 year ago | 214 comments

Blog post by Matthew Sinclair arguing that LLM-powered programming tools act like a mech suit amplifying developers rather than replacing them.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

We have used too many levels of abstractions(unixsheikh.com)

674 points by riidom 3 years ago | 427 comments

An opinion essay on unixsheikh.com arguing that the software industry relies on too many layers of abstraction, leaving few people who understand how the underlying technology works.

Open Source is one person(opensourcesecurity.io)

325 points by LawnGnome 1 year ago | 132 comments

Blog post by Josh Bressers on Open Source Security arguing that many open source projects are maintained by a single person.

Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold(jsnover.com)

748 points by naves 6 months ago | 529 comments

Jeffrey Snover's blog post arguing Microsoft has lacked a coherent Windows GUI development strategy for decades since the Petzold-era Win32 programming.

Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)(danq.me)

833 points by MrVandemar 3 months ago | 500 comments

Dan Q's blog post arguing that a travel company's mobile app for a school Disneyland trip should have been a webpage, and describing how he rebuilt it as one.