Mario and Earendil(lucumr.pocoo.org)

52 points by doppp 6 months ago | 24 comments

The Coming Loop(lucumr.pocoo.org)

375 points by ingve 4 months ago | 259 comments

Armin Ronacher blog post about people building automated loops on top of coding agents like Claude instead of prompting them directly.

Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization(lucumr.pocoo.org)

47 points by tosh 26 days ago | 6 comments

Armin Ronacher's blog post introducing Deser, an experimental Rust serialization library rethinking Serde's design and limitations.

Before GitHub(lucumr.pocoo.org)

646 points by mlex 6 months ago | 215 comments

Armin Ronacher's blog post reflecting on hosting open source projects before GitHub, via SourceForge, self-hosted Trac and Subversion, and Bitbucket.

Building Pi with Pi(lucumr.pocoo.org)

157 points by mplanchard 5 months ago | 130 comments

Codeberg Divides(lucumr.pocoo.org)

95 points by ashdnazg 3 months ago | 117 comments

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.

My old job feels distant now(pinecoder.dev)

28 points by speckx 10 days ago | 27 comments

A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.

Hello, me. It's been a while(themech.net)

336 points by somesoftdev 2 months ago | 178 comments

A personal blog post in which a programmer returns after fourteen years to reflect on filling every quiet moment with podcasts, audiobooks, and social media.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

It's okay to make something nobody wants(zhangluyao.com)

411 points by levi0214 3 years ago | 171 comments

A personal blog essay by 张路遥 arguing it's fine to build products for your own excitement rather than for users, opening with a Rick Rubin quote.