Every Frame Perfect(tonsky.me)

792 points by ravenical 4 months ago | 260 comments

Blog post by Nikita Prokopov (tonsky) arguing that UIs should follow Wayland's "every frame is perfect" goal, avoiding glitchy intermediate states.

Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native(tonsky.me)

102 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 120 comments

JavaScript Bloat in 2024(tonsky.me)

255 points by cdme 2 years ago | 137 comments

We shouldn't have needed lockfiles(tonsky.me)

100 points by tobr 1 year ago | 237 comments

Daylight Saving Time is a perfect test for UI designer(tonsky.me)

30 points by matricaria 2 years ago | 38 comments

Where should visual programming go?(tonsky.me)

56 points by spiralganglion 2 years ago | 58 comments

We mourn our craft(nolanlawson.com)

634 points by ColinWright 8 months ago | 737 comments

Nolan Lawson's blog post lamenting how AI coding tools are reducing programmers to code reviewers and mourning the loss of the programming craft.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

Kris Nóva has died(nivenly.org)

776 points by chrkl 3 years ago | 110 comments

Nivenly Foundation blog post announcing the death of its founder Kris Nóva, who inspired the creation of Hachyderm and Nivenly.

"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.

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics(davidoks.blog)

496 points by d0ks 5 months ago | 584 comments

Substack essay by David Oks arguing that AI-driven memory demand is causing a global memory crunch that is raising prices and killing cheap smartphones.

Grieving the loss of details(purplesyringa.moe)

448 points by signa11 20 days ago | 352 comments

A personal blog post by purplesyringa reflecting on grieving the loss of low-level coding details as the industry shifts toward vibecoding and architecture-focused work.