A History of IDEs at Google(laurent.le-brun.eu)

441 points by laurentlb 5 months ago | 286 comments

Blog post by Laurent Le Brun recounting the history of IDEs and code editors used internally at Google for its main codebase.

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie(alexharri.com)

214 points by alexharri 1 year ago | 76 comments

Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB(laurent.le-brun.eu)

71 points by laurentlb 10 months ago | 11 comments

Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program(github.blog)

47 points by soheilpro 3 months ago | 22 comments

Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images(vpetersson.com)

137 points by mvip 1 year ago | 91 comments

Leaving Neovim for Zed(stevedylan.dev)

289 points by mxstbr 2 years ago | 252 comments

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters(beta.dwitter.net)

325 points by themanmaran 9 months ago | 59 comments

Dwitter, a community site for sharing and remixing JavaScript canvas demos written in 140 characters or less.

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.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.

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.

Your hex editor should color-code bytes(simonomi.dev)

569 points by tobr 6 months ago | 151 comments

Blog post by Alice Pellerin arguing that hex editors should color-code bytes to make binary data easier to read.

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.