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Archive
127 / You don’t need JavaScript for that
126 / Spreadsheets and Small Software
125 / Signals vs. Servers
124 / Things I Learned the Hard Way
123 / The Most Powerful Word in the World
122 / The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
121 / Scrollbars are becoming a problem
120 / Push and Pull
119 / Nobody Cares
118 / How To Engineer Kindness
117 / Don’t be afraid to be wrong
116 / Style is consistent constraint
115 / Ask vs guess culture
114 / Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek
113 / Just normal web things
112 / In Defense of Strategy
111 / This will be easy
110 / Compounding Optimism
109 / JavaScript Gom Jabbar
108 / Humans Need Play
107 / IKEA-Oriented Development
106 / Anything can be a message queue
105 / Fire and Motion
104 / Markdown images are an anti-pattern
103 / User Driven UI
102 / Stop Using Hamburger Menus
101 / Why I Adore The Night
100 / Here Come the Robots
99 / A love letter to make
98 / The Most Valuable Programmer
97 / How To Do Hard Things
96 / Neither artificial, nor intelligent
95 / The Ambiguous Zone
94 / Culture Viruses
93 / The Waluigi Effect
92 / What’s in my software engineering tool belt?
91 / Taco Bell Programming
90 / My Dream Computer
89 / Use the Wrong Tool for the Job
88 / The yaml document from hell
87 / The internet wants to be fragmented
86 / Why the super rich are inevitable
2022
85 / How to Improve Your Creative Thinking
84 / The Riddle of Rest
83 / Why Twitter Didn’t Go Down
82 / Programming is a Pop Culture
81 / That fediverse feeling
80 / Goodbye Twitter, hello Fediverse
79 / The perfect commit
78 / No, you’re not entitled to your opinion
77 / Take a Break You Idiot
76 / An end to doomerism
75 / The five-minute feedback fix
74 / The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves
73 / Quality Is Systemic
72 / Why are you so busy?
71 / Coping with Copilot
70 / Death to Dependencies
69 / How I Hacked my Car
68 / An app can be a home-cooked meal
67 / Your Code Doesn’t Have to Be a Mess
66 / Things you’re allowed to do
65 / Why you can’t dig Switzerland
64 / Absurd Trolley Problems
63 / The Death Spiral Of Bullshit
62 / Making Code Faster
61 / Shipping to Production
60 / Optimism Shapes Reality
59 / Programming in the Apocalypse
58 / Not My Job
57 / Honesty is a professional behavior
56 / I Miss Heroku’s DevEx
55 / An easy mode for Rust
54 / Crimes with Go Generics
53 / Generation C
52 / The Return of the 90s Web
51 / Advantages of monorepos
50 / How To Do Less
49 / The opportunity will find you
48 / My Favorite npm Commit
47 / Falsify yourself
46 / Editing stuff in prod
45 / I have no capslock and I must scream
44 / A Rust match made in hell
43 / Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now
42 / Settings are not a design failure
41 / Contemplating calendars
40 / The Web of 2042
39 / Who Uses To-Do Lists?
38 / Function Colors Are Rusty
37 / Preventing Log4j with Capabilities
2021
36 / Why not Rust?
35 / Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
34 / Inspiring Resilience
33 / Just a job
32 / Individuals matter
31 / Don’t be spooky
30 / It’s all gravy
29 / Always do Extra
28 / Willingness to look stupid
27 / Speed matters
26 / Twitter has a kernel team!?
25 / Work Is a False Idol
24 / Start using tools again
23 / The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Unexpected
22 / Intentional connection in the digital office
21 / Why Electron apps are fine
20 / The Rise Of User-Hostile Software
19 / Your devices and your employer
18 / Apple’s Mistake
17 / Use Spreadsheets Everywhere
16 / Avoid easy things
Issue #15: Your Idea Is Brilliant, Your Idea Is Worthless
Issue #14: -2000 Lines of Code
Issue #13: Git Best Practices
Issue #12: Good code is easy to delete
Issue #11
Building a More Honest Internet
Always be quitting
Do what I mean
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