Writing Cursor rules with a Cursor rule(adithyan.io)

137 points by adithyan_win 1 year ago | 43 comments

People Who Hype Cursor Usually Lack Technical Skills(en.smallyu.net)

20 points by cratermoon 1 year ago | 4 comments

Everything you never wanted to know about CMake (redux)(izzys.casa)

51 points by amirmasoudabdol 3 years ago | 11 comments

Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake (Redux)(izzys.casa)

52 points by ingve 3 years ago | 21 comments

The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred(danielchasehooper.com)

176 points by paraboul 2 years ago | 123 comments

HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons(duti.dev)

48 points by mindracer 2 months ago | 39 comments

Small programming tricks(will-keleher.com)

606 points by signa11 1 month ago | 266 comments

A blog post arguing that small nuggets of programming knowledge boost productivity, sharing examples like fzf-powered ctrl+r and python3 -m http.server.

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.

A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago(mbuffett.com)

493 points by marcusbuffett 2 years ago | 289 comments

A personal blog post in which a programmer lists advice he would give his younger self, such as fixing recurring team problems at their root.

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.

You are never taught how to build quality software(florianbellmann.com)

480 points by RunOrVeith 2 years ago | 411 comments

Blog post by Florian Bellmann arguing that software developers are never formally taught how to build quality software and discussing QA practices.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code(ankursethi.com)

502 points by mpweiher 2 months ago | 413 comments

A personal blog post arguing that developers should manually retype code generated by LLM coding assistants to keep understanding it and avoid cognitive debt.