It's death(jesseduffield.com)

160 points by inatreecrown2 4 months ago | 56 comments

Raising money fucked me up(blog.yakkomajuri.com)

342 points by yakkomajuri 9 months ago | 127 comments

Personal blog post by a founder who left Doublepoint to start a company, reflecting on how raising venture money affected him and his motivations.

Technical Deflation(benanderson.work)

71 points by 0x79de 11 months ago | 64 comments

The peril of laziness lost(bcantrill.dtrace.org)

420 points by gpm 6 months ago | 136 comments

Bryan Cantrill blog essay on Larry Wall's programmer virtue of laziness and the risks to software design when that laziness is lost.

Being laid off in 2023-2024 as an early-career developer(fpsvogel.com)

47 points by dxs 2 years ago | 35 comments

"I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

37 points by Brajeshwar 21 days ago | 15 comments

Jim Nielsen blog post reflecting on Ben Thompson's remark about tech being too convoluted, sparked by a family member's text complaining about the modern web.

AI makes tech debt more expensive(gauge.sh)

436 points by 0x63_Problems 1 year ago | 213 comments

A Gauge blog article arguing that AI coding tools make technical debt more costly rather than less relevant.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

Software engineers hate code(dancowell.com)

323 points by dfcowell 3 years ago | 185 comments

A blog post by Dan Cowell arguing that software engineers dislike code and prefer writing less of it.

Web development is fun again(ma.ttias.be)

444 points by Mojah 9 months ago | 544 comments

Mattias Geniar's blog post reflecting on how web development felt simpler in the PHP 4 and jQuery era and arguing it has become fun again.

Write code for the web(mrmr.io)

384 points by mnvrth 2 years ago | 281 comments

A personal blog post arguing that Apple doesn't care for developers and that the author should write code for the web instead.

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.