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

60 points by kaladin-jasnah 3 years ago | 17 comments

If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly(devblogs.microsoft.com)

364 points by AndrewDucker 2 years ago | 271 comments

Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog post on how to implement no-op API stubs correctly, using Windows printing APIs on Xbox as an example.

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

The outside investigation of SoftRAM 95 (2021)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

83 points by userbinator 3 years ago | 38 comments

C++17 creates a practical use of the backward array index operator(devblogs.microsoft.com)

77 points by nikbackm 3 years ago | 21 comments

A story about USB floppy drives (2004)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

67 points by airhangerf15 1 year ago | 36 comments

Writing that changed how I think about programming languages(bernsteinbear.com)

388 points by r4um 1 year ago | 48 comments

A blog post listing papers, posts, and videos on programming languages and compilers that changed the author's thinking, with short commentary on each.

Formal methods and the future of programming(blog.janestreet.com)

322 points by eatonphil 4 months ago | 99 comments

Jane Street Blog post on formal methods and their role in the future of programming, illustrated with OCaml-style specification code.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.

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.

The recurring dream of replacing developers(caimito.net)

544 points by glimshe 9 months ago | 428 comments

Blog post by Stephan Schwab on why businesses have tried to replace software developers every decade since 1969, from COBOL to AI.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.