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.

Accidental database programming(sqlsync.dev)

523 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 265 comments

Blog post by Carl Sverre arguing that frontend apps end up reimplementing database features like caches and indexes, and proposing a frontend-optimized database stack.

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

258 points by saikatsg 10 months ago | 93 comments

How dependabot works(nesbitt.io)

57 points by zdw 9 months ago | 11 comments

We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments(programmingsimplicity.substack.com)

14 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 1 comments

BuildKit in depth: Docker's build engine explained(depot.dev)

147 points by kylegalbraith 2 years ago | 34 comments