Web development is fun again(ma.ttias.be)

444 points by Mojah 9 months ago | 544 comments

Mattias Geniar's blog post reflecting on how web development felt simpler in the PHP 4 and jQuery era and arguing it has become fun again.

The website vs. web app dichotomy doesn't exist(jakelazaroff.com)

39 points by jakelazaroff 2 years ago | 34 comments

How to write blog posts that developers read(refactoringenglish.com)

533 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 148 comments

A chapter from Michael Lynch's Refactoring English offering advice on writing blog posts that software developers will actually read.

We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole(pcloadletter.dev)

56 points by ronbenton 9 months ago | 70 comments

When Random Isn't(orlp.net)

338 points by orlp 2 years ago | 124 comments

Blog post recounting a teenage anecdote about exploiting predictable randomness in World of Warcraft Lua add-ons, framed as a computer security story.

Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy"(yieldcode.blog)

38 points by skwee357 2 years ago | 17 comments