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

175 points by Sindisil 3 years ago | 70 comments

Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps(devblogs.microsoft.com)

429 points by signa11 2 years ago | 195 comments

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing blog post explaining how early computers performed subroutine calls before they had stacks or heaps.

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

What is a hard error, and what makes it harder than an easy error?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

77 points by luu 2 years ago | 36 comments

Buying an entire Egghead Software store (2005)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

60 points by kaladin-jasnah 3 years ago | 17 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

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

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.

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.

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis(twitter.com)

2013 points by reasonableklout 5 months ago | 1180 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's X post arguing some companies are in 'AI psychosis', relying on agents to fix bugs fast (MTTR) at the expense of reliability (MTBF).

Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand(autodidacts.io)

134 points by Curiositry 20 days ago | 151 comments

A personal blog post on The Autodidacts arguing that vibecoding with AI is less satisfying than writing code by hand.

How to post when no one is reading(jeetmehta.com)

598 points by j4mehta 1 year ago | 240 comments

Personal blog essay arguing creators should keep publishing through years of obscurity, since mastery and audience take a long time to build.