“We want it to really confuse people, but also really make people happy”(unsung.aresluna.org)

50 points by zdw 1 month ago | 18 comments

It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard(unsung.aresluna.org)

117 points by tobr 7 months ago | 72 comments

“I just chose words carefully”(unsung.aresluna.org)

1133 points by zdw 1 month ago | 326 comments

A blog post on Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog about the difficulties of typesetting text in monospace and choosing words carefully to fit it.

More Molly Guards(unsung.aresluna.org)

167 points by zdw 4 months ago | 20 comments

A few interesting modern pixel fonts(unsung.aresluna.org)

402 points by zdw 5 months ago | 97 comments

A blog post on Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog highlighting several modern pixel fonts, starting with Andrew Gleeson's Analog Mono, a remake of the VCR OSD Mono font.

"Traditional, but Puzzling"(unsung.aresluna.org)

42 points by colinprince 9 days ago | 7 comments

Blog post on the Unsung software craft blog about a puzzling Unix error message seen by users in the 1990s and its history.

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'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

I've acquired a new superpower(danielwirtz.com)

1641 points by wirtzdan 1 year ago | 530 comments

Personal blog post by Daniel Wirtz about learning to quickly spot differences between two similar images, inspired by a German TV show video of a 9-year-old girl.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

What AI-Native Looks Like(fagnerbrack.com)

14 points by fagnerbrack 1 month ago | 7 comments

A blog post by Fagner Brack on Medium describing what an AI-native approach to software development with stable infrastructure looks like.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.