The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

96 points by ubolonton_ 1 month ago | 10 comments

Metastable Failures in the Wild(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

51 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 8 comments

Chapter 2: Serializability Theory (1987 Concurrency Control Book)(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

22 points by matt_d 1 year ago | 0 comments

Foundational distributed systems papers (2021)(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

158 points by belter 3 years ago | 21 comments

Linearizability: A correctness condition for concurrent objects(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

49 points by matt_d 2 years ago | 3 comments

My Time at MIT(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

166 points by rrampage 1 year ago | 55 comments

The future is not self-hosted(drewlyton.com)

417 points by drew_lytle 1 year ago | 367 comments

Blog post by Drew Lyton arguing that self-hosting is not the future of personal computing and data ownership.

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.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

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.

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.

AI is making me dumb(jpain.io)

407 points by Eighth 5 months ago | 247 comments

A personal blog post in which a software developer argues that relying on AI for writing code, articles, and documents is eroding his own writing and programming skills.