Writing can happen from the position of expertise, but much of what is written has started from a decision to write, with research, gathering knowledge and building experience following.
Solving hard problems is very often about breaking them down into even smaller pieces, rather than about jumping multiple steps ahead.
There’re drawbacks to staying on top of things. Namely you don’t go deep.
> Prove X. Me: To prove X we need to demonstrate A and B. A is trivially true. B is true by construction. Hence we’ve proven X.
According to the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey[1], C is still more widely used than Go and Rust, despite being less appreciated. The lead of C for learning to program is even more significant, which is encouraging. 1. survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technol...
It's surprisingly convenient to be able to lookup the standard library function and header documentation via man pages. Now I want it for other languages.
Reading The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie from 1988, it's fascinating that all code examples still work in 2025 - 37 years later - with just -ansi compiler flag (-std=c90).
If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.
Another treasure trove of a talk by Bryan Cantrill on various aspects of software engineering from debugging data corruption to building successful engineering organizations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ0y...
Tech Leader Speaker Series ft. Bryan Cantrill, Chief Technology Officer at Oxide
YouTube video by Rokt
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tilvids.com/w/4MTECvQsBh... A short but sweet overview of the research of @grimalkina.bsky.social focusing on the environment conducive to (developer) success, but also highlighting important distinctions between performance and growth, and drawbacks of performance culture.
Cat Hicks - Developer Thriving & The Psychology of Innovation
How could we build an environment where developers, teams, and organizations that support them can thrive individually and collectively? Community discussion led by Cat Hicks at Bridges Summit base...
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“Cloud” could have been instead called “server rental”. It’s common to see independent ideas such as SaaS and managed software to be conflated with the cloud.
I don’t want AGI. I want us to solve hunger, poverty, and cancer. I want renewable energy, fusion power, sustainable zero carbon economy which distributes value fairly, and supersonic travel. Thinking we can cheat and delegate these things to an AGI without putting in the effort is an illusion.
The Bear blogging platform looks really neat. I'm still too stubborn to give up a Git based workflow (Bear has no API for now). bearblog.dev
ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear Blog
Free, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging
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My recommendation for those at the start of their careers is to throw oneself in at the deep end. Ideally get into rocket science if you can. Alternatively, consider the options in the thread below. Dip your toes into all of them and pick a couple to go deep into.
I wonder if there's a way to side-step the design/accessibility trade-off on the web by allowing the user to opt in into certain accessibility features. A browser would then enrich/change/override how page elements are presented, at cost of some design inconsistency.
All share their successes, the better share their learnings, the best share their failures. And the pathetic share their shower thoughts passed off as high wisdom.
📝 Blogged: "What If We Could Rebuild Kafka From Scratch?" I did a little thought experiment: which characteristics and traits would be desirable if we were to start all over and develop a durable cloud-native event log from scratch? 👉 www.morling.dev/blog/what-if...
Working with Python on occasion always felt like a fight with the tooling. uv on the other hand just works as it's supposed to, and when it doesn't, it's usually my fault for not reading the docs more carefully.
So here in France we have a 5G-enabled electricity meter called Linky, which naturally here in the land where people who live in heaven think they live in hell there were all kinds of protests — Linky gives you cancer, makes your kids autistic, kills your dog, sets your house on fire, and so on.
Focusing solely on a career is like trying to squeeze as much juice as possible out of a lemon you have. Focusing on learning is like growing a lemon tree.
Wow, that's an insanely cool website: animejs.com/
Anime.js | JavaScript Animation Engine
A fast and versatile JavaScript animation library
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The Dark Side Of Usability usabilitypost.com/2011/01/10/d... Some food for thought. The post is almost a decade and a half old but more relevant than ever.
The Dark Side Of Usability
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After spending some time tweaking, I finally feel quite happy with macOS window management. btw, if you switch Caps Lock with Control, everything becomes instantly better in life, including the shortcuts below in the thread.
Good article with personal observations on the long term effects of using AI tools for programming. Some quotes in the thread. lucianonooijen.com/blog/why-i-s...
Why I stopped using AI code editors · Luciano Nooijen
In the past I used AI code editors for all of my programming, but I stopped using it and recommend others to consider this as well
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Humans of the Data Sphere by Jack Vanlightly (@vanlightly.bsky.social) is an excellent way to stay up to date with the field of distributed data systems and discover interesting people to follow. www.hotds.dev
Humans of the Data Sphere | Jack Vanlightly | Substack
Compiling wisdom, opinions and content from humans across the data sphere. Click to read Humans of the Data Sphere, by Jack Vanlightly, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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