JavaScript Gom Jabbar(frantic.im)

527 points by disadvantage 3 years ago | 238 comments

A satirical blog post framing reading a JavaScript package.json file as a Dune-style Gom Jabbar test of pain for veteran developers.

Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp(storytotell.org)

103 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 48 comments

A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median(krisshamloo.com)

45 points by speckx 3 months ago | 40 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.

CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts(matklad.github.io)

109 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 65 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)(madhadron.com)

321 points by helloplanets 6 months ago | 123 comments

Essay on the madhadron blog arguing programming languages descend from seven fundamental 'ur-languages' that learners should explore instead of similar mainstream languages.

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'(blog.daviddodda.com)

829 points by DavidDodda 1 year ago | 427 comments

A blog post by David Dodda recounting how a fake job interview attempted to get him to run malicious code on his machine.

The cost of getting a job today(weli.dev)

23 points by weli 11 days ago | 23 comments

A personal blog post by a new Head of Engineering at a startup reflecting on hiring and how much more than skills it takes to get a job today.

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.

I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it(switowski.com)

1399 points by switowski 2 years ago | 395 comments

A blog post by Sebastian Witowski recounting how his 2020 side project earned over $15,000 but became a maintenance burden he grew to hate.

A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work(mertbulan.com)

901 points by mertbio 1 year ago | 827 comments

Personal blog post by Mert Bulan reflecting, a year later, on how being laid off changed his relationship with work.

I let an AI run my startup for a week(daily.tinyprojects.dev)

45 points by tinyprojects 12 days ago | 43 comments

A personal blog post describing a week of letting an AI agent team (Grok Bot, similar to OpenClaw) running on a Linux server operate the author's startup.