The unbearable slowness of AI coding(joshuavaldez.com)

91 points by aymandfire 1 year ago | 59 comments

The Slow Death of the Power User(fireborn.mataroa.blog)

46 points by microsoftedging 8 months ago | 35 comments

Zig builds are getting faster(mitchellh.com)

409 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 191 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post describing how Zig 0.15.1 has improved build times, using the Ghostty project's upgrade as an example.

Copilot vs. Cursor vs. Cody vs. Supermaven vs. Aider(vincentschmalbach.com)

19 points by vincent_s 2 years ago | 4 comments

How I build software quickly(evanhahn.com)

301 points by kiyanwang 1 year ago | 153 comments

I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer(danielchasehooper.com)

155 points by dhooper 1 year ago | 44 comments

On the Nature of Time(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

326 points by iamwil 2 years ago | 221 comments

Stephen Wolfram essay arguing that time is best understood computationally, as the progressive application of computational rules by the universe.

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore(danluu.com)

592 points by Jach 2 months ago | 442 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing that LLM coding agents make specialized performance optimization cheap, illustrated with optimizing a regex engine for specific workloads.

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.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Cognitive load is what matters(github.com)

1392 points by nromiun 1 year ago | 488 comments

GitHub repository by zakirullin containing an essay arguing that reducing cognitive load is what matters most in software development, with translations.

We have used too many levels of abstractions(unixsheikh.com)

674 points by riidom 3 years ago | 427 comments

An opinion essay on unixsheikh.com arguing that the software industry relies on too many layers of abstraction, leaving few people who understand how the underlying technology works.