How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup(blog.zactownsend.com)

115 points by zt 1 year ago | 140 comments

From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap(stephantul.github.io)

53 points by stephantul 4 months ago | 39 comments

An Intuitive Explanation of Sparse Autoencoders for LLM Interpretability(adamkarvonen.github.io)

77 points by sebg 1 year ago | 1 comments

Darklang Goes Open Source(blog.darklang.com)

143 points by stachudotnet 1 year ago | 66 comments

Cloudflare's AI Psychosis(opensauce.it)

73 points by gregzeng95 2 months ago | 35 comments

Setting Up an RK3588 SBC QEMU Hypervisor with ZFS on Debian(blog.kumio.org)

59 points by kumiokun 1 year ago | 17 comments

Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks(kdpcommunity.com)

586 points by captn3m0 10 months ago | 289 comments

Kindle Direct Publishing community announcement about new eBook download options for readers, including ePub and PDF for DRM-free titles, coming in 2026.

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.

Don't fire your illustrator(sambleckley.com)

346 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 269 comments

Essay by Sam Bleckley, a fine artist and software engineer, on understanding and art-directing AI image generators and why illustrators remain valuable.

Free Software Is a Failure(paritybit.ca)

7 points by gum_wobble 1 day ago | 6 comments

Blog essay by Jake Bauer arguing that the copyleft Free Software movement and the GPL fail at their stated goals and harm the broader FOSS ecosystem.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.

Web development is fun again(ma.ttias.be)

444 points by Mojah 9 months ago | 544 comments

Mattias Geniar's blog post reflecting on how web development felt simpler in the PHP 4 and jQuery era and arguing it has become fun again.