Is this sustainable?(jamiehurst.co.uk)

84 points by ColinEberhardt 5 months ago | 92 comments

The Valley of Webhooks(weli.dev)

183 points by weli 2 months ago | 82 comments

The Tech of Planetary Annihilation: ChronoCam (2013)(forrestthewoods.com)

81 points by resatori 2 years ago | 27 comments

Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code(forrestthewoods.com)

6 points by takemine 2 years ago | 0 comments

We see something that works, and then we understand it(lemire.me)

198 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 77 comments

ZFS: Apple's new filesystem that wasn't (2016)(ahl.dtrace.org)

176 points by jitl 1 year ago | 156 comments

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.

I'm Tired of Being on the Network(matduggan.com)

97 points by sagacity 1 month ago | 93 comments

A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.

The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism(matduggan.com)

362 points by ColinWright 5 months ago | 320 comments

A blog post by Mat Duggan arguing that cyberlibertarian ideology in the tech world is hypocritical, opening with reflections on life before the Internet.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

How we lost communication to entertainment(ploum.net)

651 points by 8organicbits 10 months ago | 365 comments

Blog post by Ploum arguing that online communication tools have been turned into entertainment platforms, eroding genuine communication.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.