I sped up serde_json strings by 20%(purplesyringa.moe)

317 points by purplesyringa 2 years ago | 100 comments

Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer(purplesyringa.moe)

38 points by emschwartz 1 month ago | 39 comments

Log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua(purplesyringa.moe)

59 points by ibobev 3 months ago | 39 comments

Superoptimizing an FPU Emulator(purplesyringa.moe)

39 points by dverlaeckt80 10 days ago | 6 comments

Blog post on using superoptimization to find an optimal instruction sequence for a floating-point emulator function returning a float's lowest set bit.

Programming Used to Be Free(purplesyringa.moe)

37 points by yeputons 6 months ago | 37 comments

Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if(purplesyringa.moe)

76 points by birdculture 3 months ago | 11 comments

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.

Grief gets an expiration date, just like us(bessstillman.substack.com)

427 points by LaurenSerino 1 year ago | 200 comments

A Substack personal essay by Bess Stillman about grieving her husband Jake a year after his death and how society expects grief to expire.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

We mourn our craft(nolanlawson.com)

634 points by ColinWright 8 months ago | 737 comments

Nolan Lawson's blog post lamenting how AI coding tools are reducing programmers to code reviewers and mourning the loss of the programming craft.

It's getting harder to focus every day(glyphack.com)

675 points by peykar 3 months ago | 381 comments

A personal blog post by Glyphack reflecting on increasing difficulty focusing and getting only about an hour of focused time a day.

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.