What is “good taste” in software engineering?(seangoedecke.com)

302 points by olayiwoladekoya 1 year ago | 208 comments

'Make invalid states unrepresentable' considered harmful(seangoedecke.com)

49 points by zdw 1 year ago | 49 comments

You can't design software you don't work on(seangoedecke.com)

258 points by saikatsg 10 months ago | 93 comments

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work(seangoedecke.com)

1015 points by dondraper36 1 year ago | 364 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.

Good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it(addyosmani.com)

276 points by feross 3 years ago | 204 comments

Working on Products People Hate(seangoedecke.com)

46 points by herbertl 7 months ago | 38 comments

Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful(florian-kraemer.net)

324 points by BerislavLopac 1 year ago | 493 comments

Blog post by Florian Krämer arguing that most APIs called RESTful don't follow Roy Fielding's original REST architectural style as described in his dissertation.

Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs(reflex.dev)

458 points by palashawas 5 months ago | 255 comments

Reflex blog post benchmarking AI computer use against auto-generated API endpoints on an admin panel, finding computer use far more costly in steps and tokens.

Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer(tibinotes.com)

387 points by tb8424 1 year ago | 156 comments

A Substack essay by Tibi Iorga on how startups can work out their user experience without a dedicated designer, time, or budget.

GPT-4 API General Availability(openai.com)

695 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 479 comments

OpenAI blog post announcing general availability of the GPT-4 API and the deprecation of older models in the Completions API.

API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS(jviide.iki.fi)

584 points by oherrala 2 years ago | 252 comments

Blog post arguing that APIs should fail visibly on plain HTTP requests instead of redirecting to HTTPS, noting many major API providers don't.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.