The soloists and populars of the software world(mihaiolteanu.me)

5 points by molteanu 3 years ago | 0 comments

The Language That Never Was(blog.celes42.com)

26 points by darthdeus 1 year ago | 1 comments

Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig(alexalejandre.com)

367 points by veqq 3 months ago | 207 comments

Blog interview by Alex Alejandre with Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Vagrant and Terraform, discussing terminals, the Ghostty project, Zig, and open source.

I hate almost all software (2011)(tinyclouds.org)

111 points by Decabytes 3 years ago | 87 comments

Hachi: An Image Search Engine(eagledot.xyz)

125 points by warangal 11 months ago | 14 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI(danielvaughn.dev)

334 points by danielvaughn 2 months ago | 178 comments

Blog post introducing Huzzah, an experimental editor where you write pseudocode that is synced to real source code by AI on save, with the pseudocode kept as intent.

Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more(blog.plover.com)

927 points by JNRowe 1 year ago | 430 comments

Blog post from The Universe of Discourse explaining English patronymic surnames derived from medieval nicknames, some of which are no longer in use.

You are not your job(jry.io)

334 points by jryio 7 months ago | 357 comments

A personal essay arguing that software engineers shouldn't tie their identity to their job title as machines increasingly automate their work.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance(larsfaye.com)

490 points by larsfaye 2 months ago | 479 comments

Blog essay by Lars Faye arguing that reliance on AI coding tools removes the friction needed to develop long-term programming expertise.

I don't like NumPy(dynomight.net)

399 points by MinimalAction 1 year ago | 164 comments

A Dynomight blog essay critiquing NumPy's design, arguing its array broadcasting and indexing make complex computations confusing.

Software engineers hate code(dancowell.com)

323 points by dfcowell 3 years ago | 185 comments

A blog post by Dan Cowell arguing that software engineers dislike code and prefer writing less of it.