Tractor(incoherency.co.uk)

189 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 60 comments

I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated(louwrentius.com)

262 points by jandeboevrie 3 years ago | 158 comments

I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer(danielchasehooper.com)

155 points by dhooper 1 year ago | 44 comments

Notes on making a multiplayer "doing nothing app"(untested.sonnet.io)

98 points by rpastuszak 3 years ago | 40 comments

I built a special PCIe card to test GPUs on the Pi(jeffgeerling.com)

96 points by gravitate 3 years ago | 35 comments

Things I learned from teaching(claytonwramsey.github.io)

211 points by claytonwramsey 2 years ago | 100 comments

I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)

337 points by speckx 10 days ago | 212 comments

A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.

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.

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.

Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster(claude.dev)

179 points by matthieu_bl 1 month ago | 113 comments

Engineering blog post from Anthropic's Claude team describing how they made claude.ai three times faster in two weeks by having Claude measure and optimize performance.

I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it(medium.com)

434 points by cyrc 9 months ago | 133 comments

A Medium post by Cristian Băluță describing how he, a software developer, built his own custom camera dubbed the Leica G9ii.

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.