Scrappy: make little apps for you and your friends
Parse, don’t validate
Build an Electrically Heated Table
This manual explains how to assemble an electrically heated and insulated table that keeps you toasty warm in a cold space.
near.blog
Writing that changed how I think about PL
Every so often I come across a paper, blog post, or (occasionally) video that completely changes how I think about a topic in programming languages and compilers. For some of these posts, I can’t even remember how I thought about the idea before reading it—it was that impactful.
The Great Displacement Is Already Well Underway
It's Not a Hypothetical, I've Already Lost My Job to AI For The Last Year
Altium
Ever dreamt of designing your own open-source laptop? For a while now I´ve been fascinated by this idea. As you can probably imagine, this is a monumental task that will require a lot of time and resources. Working alone on a project of this size makes matters even more difficult.
Readability, hackability, and abstraction
Suppose you’re writing a script to spin up servers for your web application…
Convert Linux to Windows
Egoless Engineering
It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.
Knowledge-based society, my ass
I've studied the effects of electromagnetic
fields on patients with carotid stent implants during my PhD. I've
never talked with any patient nor seen any such medical devices even
to this day, fifteen years later.
Ship Software That Does Nothing - Kerrick Long's Blog
Don't ship when you have a minimum viable product. Don't ship a prototype to get feedback. Ship a blank page to your production servers on day one.
Programming
Ditch That Else
Escape the maze of nested code. Embrace simplicity with the early return approach.
On Bloat
On Bloat Rob Pike Brighter Tech Commonwealth Bank September 30, 2024
Just Throw It Into Postgres - simonsafar.com
MAKING SOFTWARE
A reference manual for people who design and build software.
Hyperstructures
Defining a new type of infrastructure that's native to web3.
My favorite technical blogs
E.W. Dijkstra Archive: On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (EWD 1036)
philipbohun.com/blog
Our interfaces have lost their senses
Module federation
Module Federation is a concept that allows developers to share code and resources across multiple JavaScript applications
In Defense of Text Labels - Christopher Butler
I’m a firm believer in text labels. Interfaces are over-stuffed with icons. The more icons we have to scan over, the more brain power we put
WASM Wayland Web (WWW)
Epoch Semantic Versioning
Proposal for an extended Semantic Versioning called Epoch SemVer to provide more granular versioning information to users.
Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.
Eight Sleep smart bed found to contain an exposed AWS key and a likely backdoor that allowed engineers to remotely access users' beds
Contents
David A. Wheeler's Review of "Debugging" by David J. Agans
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