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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)(inkandswitch.com)
144 points by evakhoury | 69 comments
Ink & Switch essay (June 2025) envisioning malleable software that users can reshape to their needs, and the barriers in today's computing stack to achieving it.
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244 points by dom96 | 179 comments
Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.
So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)
369 points by UglyToad | 199 comments
Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.
LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
1029 points by poisonfountain | 967 comments
A personal blog post by a software engineer with 10 years of experience reflecting on how LLMs are eroding their career and their uncertainty about what to do.
Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)
454 points by vgel | 142 comments
Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.
What to Know About JavaScript in 2026(blog.master.dev)
17 points by eustoria | 2 comments
A blog post outlining what developers should know about the JavaScript language and ecosystem in 2026.
Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)
453 points by bx376 | 663 comments
An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.











