Wayland on OpenBSD(xenocara.org)

186 points by type0 3 years ago | 154 comments

JIT-ing a stack machine (with SLJIT)(bullno1.com)

28 points by bullno1 1 year ago | 5 comments

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp(scotto.me)

170 points by silcoon 3 months ago | 117 comments

Branchless UTF-8 Encoding(cceckman.com)

175 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 40 comments

VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor(danielmangum.com)

147 points by hasheddan 1 year ago | 33 comments

Turbocharging V8 with mutable heap numbers · V8(v8.dev)

14 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 2 comments

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

244 points by dom96 9 days ago | 179 comments

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

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.

What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023(tonsky.me)

851 points by mrzool 3 years ago | 498 comments

Nikita Prokopov's (tonsky) blog post explaining the essentials of Unicode that software developers should know in 2023, updating Joel Spolsky's classic essay.

Useful patterns for building HTML tools(simonwillison.net)

331 points by simonw 10 months ago | 93 comments

Simon Willison's blog post describing useful patterns for building single-file HTML/JavaScript/CSS tools, mostly written with LLMs, with examples.

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.

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 7 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.