Good type against all odds(unsung.aresluna.org)
187 points by firloop | 24 comments
A blog post on Unsung, a software craft and quality blog, titled "Good type against all odds" about typography done well under constraints.
#software-craft on Hacker News
5 stories tagged software-craft, newest first.
Developing Taste(emilkowal.ski)
44 points by cat-whisperer | 36 comments
An essay by design engineer Emil Kowalski arguing that taste and attention to detail differentiate software products now that functionality is commoditized.
AI is a tool and using it well takes skill(yyhh.org)
742 points by layer8 | 573 comments
Blog post by Huahai on yyhh.org rebutting Rich Hickey's "AI is Not a Tool" essay, arguing LLMs are tools that require skill to use well.
“I just chose words carefully”(unsung.aresluna.org)
1133 points by zdw | 326 comments
A blog post on Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog about the difficulties of typesetting text in monospace and choosing words carefully to fit it.
Writing toy software is a joy(blog.jsbarretto.com)
726 points by bundie | 281 comments
A blog post arguing that programmers should write more small toy programs to learn deeply, citing Feynman's "What I cannot create, I do not understand."