Building a Toast Component(emilkowal.ski)

103 points by FragrantRiver 10 months ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI(danielvaughn.dev)

334 points by danielvaughn 2 months ago | 178 comments

Blog post introducing Huzzah, an experimental editor where you write pseudocode that is synced to real source code by AI on save, with the pseudocode kept as intent.

What is “good taste” in software engineering?(seangoedecke.com)

302 points by olayiwoladekoya 1 year ago | 208 comments

Purposeful animations(emilkowal.ski)

505 points by jakelazaroff 1 year ago | 127 comments

Essay by design engineer Emil Kowalski on when and how to use UI animations purposefully so they improve rather than harm the user experience.

Adobe Is Cooked(malejandro.com)

14 points by arecsu 6 months ago | 1 comments

AI Horseless Carriages(koomen.dev)

762 points by petekoomen 1 year ago | 449 comments

Pete Koomen's essay arguing many AI apps are 'horseless carriages' that mimic old software patterns, using Gmail's AI assistant as an example.

Taste Is All That's Left(notashelf.dev)

640 points by tsak 2 months ago | 500 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that taste is the remaining differentiator in software development, with sections on friction, economics, and the flood of new software.

Some things just take time(lucumr.pocoo.org)

788 points by vaylian 7 months ago | 250 comments

Blog essay by Armin Ronacher arguing that some valuable things, like mature trees or established software and communities, can only be achieved through time.

Someone behind the software(karrisaarinen.com)

532 points by tosh 8 days ago | 188 comments

Blog post by Karri Saarinen arguing that good software products carry the experience, values, and perspective of the people who make them.

Making Software(makingsoftware.com)

631 points by calme_toi 1 year ago | 95 comments

Making Software is an illustrated reference manual by Dan Hollick explaining how software and computing concepts work, aimed at people who design and build software.

Good software knows when to stop(ogirardot.writizzy.com)

519 points by ssaboum 7 months ago | 261 comments

Blog post by Olivier Girardot arguing that good software should know when to stop adding features, opening with a hypothetical surprising change to the ls command.

Write code for the web(mrmr.io)

384 points by mnvrth 2 years ago | 281 comments

A personal blog post arguing that Apple doesn't care for developers and that the author should write code for the web instead.