What is the mechanical world picture?(edwardfeser.blogspot.com)

11 points by danielam 4 months ago | 0 comments

The Technology (2014)(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)

17 points by previnder 2 years ago | 1 comments

Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

37 points by andrewstuart 3 years ago | 3 comments

Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)(blog.danieldavies.com)

331 points by sedev 6 months ago | 173 comments

Daniel Davies' 2004 blog post, the 'D-Squared Digest One Minute MBA', arguing that good ideas do not need lies to gain acceptance, written amid the Iraq War debate, with a 2008 update.

Dynamic Languages Strike Back (2008)(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

39 points by curling_grad 3 years ago | 22 comments

History Of Window Systems (2021)(blog.dshr.org)

32 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 0 comments

Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code(danielmiessler.com)

46 points by eigenBasis 9 hours ago | 21 comments

Daniel Miessler blog post arguing that written intent, via an 'Ideal State Artifact', rather than code should be the source of truth when building software with AI.

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.

I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud(jeffgeerling.com)

861 points by HieronymusBosch 1 year ago | 570 comments

Jeff Geerling blog post about buying a Bosch 500 series dishwasher and objecting to features that require connecting the appliance to a cloud service.

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.

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.

Thoughts on thinking(dcurt.is)

588 points by bradgessler 1 year ago | 367 comments

Dustin Curtis's blog essay reflecting on how AI and LLMs have made his own writing, coding, and creative thinking feel pointless.