Start with your dream API and work backwards. The magic function method changed how I design code. Simple yet powerful. #rust #programming #cleancode bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/magic-fu…

We need to normalize being a solo developer again.

Are you this old? 😁

The whack-a-model AI workflow: 1. Ask a model to generate some code 2. The code has a bug 3. Ask the model to fix the bug 4. You now have two different bugs 5. Ask the model to fix the bugs 6. There's a third bug now This is the sad reality for those who can't understand the

Come join Python Introduction - Self Paced Class (2025)! silicondojo.com/challenge-page…

“Momento mori” (remember you must die) is a great reminder. If there’s something that you really want to do - GO DO IT. Try the business idea. Try the new diet. Move to that new city. Ask that person out. Try that acting career. Be that musician. Try that new sport. Just go.

3-6 months of beginner hell (making close to zero progress and questioning whether it's worth it) is a natures way of filtering out people who weren't serious in the first place.

There's a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease github.com/bitfield/script Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://gith… #golang #programming by John Arundel

The market will almost always pay more for your skills than your employer will. Build something for yourself, or stay underpaid forever.

Just two years ago, the industry was throwing tens of millions of dollars to improve the latency by 2 milliseconds in some user facing hot critical paths. As of today, we are taking a dependency on the entire world and models that spit out a 5 tokens per second.

Don’t compromise your health. Everything else is much easier to fix 😉

Software engineering isn’t being replaced, the job is turning into something where you delete things generated by AI.

laugh now, cry later.

"Sitting is the new smoking." If you sit more than 6 hours a day, you're killing your body and destroying your health. Here are 4 ways you can adjust your desk set up to reverse the damages of sitting:

After 16 years of programming, the amount of working code I wrote that I don’t understand Is horrifying.

Benchmarking: What You Can't Miss in Go 1.24 open.substack.com/pub/jakubjaros…

"I have no interest in giving up writing code. That's not the unpleasant part that I want AI to take off my hands. Just so I can — what? — become a project manager for a murder of AI crows?" world.hey.com/dhh/coding-sho…

The foundations of Continuous Delivery aren't pipelines... • Fast, reliable tests • Clean, modular design • Version control everywhere • Frequent, small changes • Automation you trust Without these, You're not doing CD.

Software getting worse with each iteration without anyone noticing in the process is just a modern version of a boiling frog tale