Money bubble(tbray.org)

143 points by headalgorithm 2 years ago | 158 comments

Why Not Bluesky(tbray.org)

24 points by throw0101c 1 year ago | 12 comments

AI Angst(tbray.org)

122 points by AndrewDucker 1 year ago | 113 comments

The Real GenAI Issue(tbray.org)

57 points by almost-exactly 1 year ago | 36 comments

Decentralizing Schemes(tbray.org)

24 points by NotInOurNames 1 year ago | 5 comments

Because Algospeak(tbray.org)

23 points by zdw 7 months ago | 8 comments

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.

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.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

Why I still blog after 15 years(jonashietala.se)

447 points by lawn 2 years ago | 215 comments

Jonas Hietala's personal blog post reflecting on why he has kept blogging for 15 years and how the blog started.

My Friend Aaron(rorz.io)

562 points by sarreph 2 months ago | 152 comments

A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.

It's okay to make something nobody wants(zhangluyao.com)

411 points by levi0214 3 years ago | 171 comments

A personal blog essay by 张路遥 arguing it's fine to build products for your own excitement rather than for users, opening with a Rick Rubin quote.