Painless Software Schedules (2000)(joelonsoftware.com)

59 points by MonkeyClub 9 months ago | 32 comments

Your app subscription is now my weekend project(rselbach.com)

501 points by robteix 9 months ago | 345 comments

Blog post by Roberto Selbach about replacing paid app subscriptions like Wispr Flow by vibecoding his own tools, such as a dictation app called Jabber.

Scan HTML faster with SIMD instructions – Chrome edition(lemire.me)

227 points by p_l 2 years ago | 112 comments

Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests(lemire.me)

36 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 31 comments

John Carmack on inlined code (2014)(number-none.com)

528 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 363 comments

Jonathan Blow's blog reposts John Carmack's 2007 email on inlining code and avoiding hidden state mutation, with Carmack's 2014 commentary favoring pure functions.

Good software knows when to stop(ogirardot.writizzy.com)

519 points by ssaboum 7 months ago | 261 comments

Blog post by Olivier Girardot arguing that good software should know when to stop adding features, opening with a hypothetical surprising change to the ls command.