Machine Code Isn't Scary(jimmyhmiller.com)

153 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 178 comments

Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer(jimmyhmiller.com)

224 points by andreabergia 8 months ago | 37 comments

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)(wozniak.ca)

247 points by ciconia 3 months ago | 281 comments

Micro-libraries should never be used(bvisness.me)

116 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 104 comments

The soloists and populars of the software world(mihaiolteanu.me)

5 points by molteanu 3 years ago | 0 comments

Why I love OCaml (2023)(mccd.space)

379 points by art-w 11 months ago | 270 comments

Personal blog post by Marc Coquand explaining why he loves OCaml, comparing it with Haskell and other languages he has used.

We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages(jimmyhmiller.com)

48 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 24 comments

Jimmy Miller essay arguing programmers should be able to customize and change their programming languages rather than treat them as fixed artifacts.

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going(rtfeldman.com)

488 points by jorangreef 3 months ago | 257 comments

Richard Feldman's blog post reporting on the Roc compiler team's rewrite of 300,000 lines of Rust into Zig, which recently reached feature parity.

The cost of lies: A Mineserver story(jeremyreimer.com)

167 points by luu 22 days ago | 69 comments

Jeremy Reimer's blog post recounting the story of Mineserver, a crowdfunded Minecraft server product, and the consequences of lies behind it.

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.

What About Rails?(jardo.dev)

287 points by jrochkind1 1 month ago | 186 comments

A blog post by Jared Norman on jardo.dev titled "What About Rails?", discussing the Ruby on Rails framework.

Goodbye, clean code (2020)(overreacted.io)

336 points by kiyanwang 2 years ago | 276 comments

Dan Abramov's 2020 blog post on overreacted reflecting on rewriting a colleague's repetitive code into an abstraction and why chasing clean code can be a mistake.