The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches?(blogs.gnome.org)

28 points by vinhnx 23 days ago | 64 comments

Blog post by Michael Catanzaro on GNOME blogs discussing whether the industry is entering an era of software quality or ignoring quality problems.

Out of Memory Shenanigans(epsio.io)

27 points by ntur1337 2 years ago | 3 comments

Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual(cockroachlabs.com)

117 points by michae2 2 years ago | 52 comments

Kotlin Coroutines vs. Threads Performance Benchmark(techyourchance.com)

49 points by flykespice 3 years ago | 30 comments

Questions for Cloudflare(entropicthoughts.com)

50 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 19 comments

The story of ispc: origins (part 1) (2018)(pharr.org)

65 points by pavlov 3 years ago | 11 comments

The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches?(blogs.gnome.org)

28 points by vinhnx 23 days ago | 64 comments

Blog post by Michael Catanzaro on GNOME blogs discussing whether the industry is entering an era of software quality or ignoring quality problems.

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.

Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)(geoffreylitt.com)

552 points by mufty 2 years ago | 275 comments

A 2019 blog post by Geoffrey Litt arguing that browser extensions are underrated as a way for users to customize and modify the software they use.

You are never taught how to build quality software(florianbellmann.com)

480 points by RunOrVeith 2 years ago | 411 comments

Blog post by Florian Bellmann arguing that software developers are never formally taught how to build quality software and discussing QA practices.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

The Enterprise Experience(churchofturing.github.io)

458 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 130 comments

A personal blog post by a software developer reflecting snarkily on one year working at a large enterprise after a decade in startups and SMEs.