Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware(werwolv.net)

78 points by speckx 17 days ago | 15 comments

Blog post describing how the author got childhood Macromedia Director games running on modern hardware by working around old copy-protection mechanisms.

Looking for a Job Is Tough(blog.kaplich.me)

85 points by skaplich 1 year ago | 114 comments

I see a future in jj(steveklabnik.com)

318 points by steveklabnik 1 year ago | 224 comments

Steve Klabnik's blog post explaining why he believes the jj (Jujutsu) version control system has a future, drawing parallels to his early bet on Rust.

LLM codegen go brrr – Parallelization with Git worktrees and tmux(skeptrune.com)

144 points by skeptrune 1 year ago | 66 comments

After 15 years, I use Outlook as my build pipeline(iwriteaboutcode.blogspot.com)

71 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 51 comments

The Signature Flicker(steipete.me)

22 points by tosh 10 months ago | 11 comments

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.

Hello, me. It's been a while(themech.net)

336 points by somesoftdev 2 months ago | 178 comments

A personal blog post in which a programmer returns after fourteen years to reflect on filling every quiet moment with podcasts, audiobooks, and social media.

Why I still blog after 15 years(jonashietala.se)

447 points by lawn 2 years ago | 215 comments

Jonas Hietala's personal blog post reflecting on why he has kept blogging for 15 years and how the blog started.

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do(human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)

1029 points by poisonfountain 4 months ago | 967 comments

A personal blog post by a software engineer with 10 years of experience reflecting on how LLMs are eroding their career and their uncertainty about what to do.

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.

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left(fourlightyears.blogspot.com)

808 points by andrewstuart 5 months ago | 574 comments

Personal blog post by a former early AWS advocate explaining the frustrations that led them to leave AWS and why returning reminded them of those issues.