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Archive

140 / 40 years of programming

139 / Towards a quieter, friendlier web

138 / More Files Please

137 / Casual Programming

136 / Why We Can’t Have Nice Software

135 / How To Fix Broken Teams

134 / Making my website faster

133 / What If Money Expired?

132 / An Unreasonable Investment

2023

131 / Cold-blooded software

130 / How I Have Fun With Rust

129 / Extreme dogfooding

128 / How to ship fast

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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