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Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
How Generative AI Is Changing Modern Software Development238
ai
What Is the Purpose of Software (dtl)237
metrics, economics
The Next Evolution of Software Developers236
career, ai
AI Is Removing the Middle Class of Software Engineering235
ai, code-reviews, career
How to Keep Thinking (sea)234
how-tos, processes, career
Agentic Coding: Bet on the Primitives (rwi)233
ai-agents, ai
Systems and Delays (jan)232
system-design, time
Software Factories, Light and Dark (add)231
ai, processes
In Defense of Not Understanding Your Codebase (sea)230
foss, career
Why Write Code in 2026 (sof)229
career
Design Engineering228
design, career, concepts
The Digital Renaissance: Why 2026 Is the Most Exciting Year to Be a Web Creator (web)227
ai, career, design
What’s Going on With Developers and AI?226
videos, ai, vibe-coding
8 Myths on Software Engineering and AI225
ai, productivity, metrics, studies, research, myths
Modern Engineering Values224
ai, career
Let the Agents Democratize Open Source223
ai, ai-agents, foss
Is AI Causing a Repeat of Frontend’s Lost Decade? (mb2/mas)222
ai, career, quality
Social Media Is Ruining Developers221
videos, social-media, culture, career, monetization
The Old World of Tech Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born (bal)220
politics, community, ai
TypeScript, C#, and Turbo Pascal With Anders Hejlsberg (ahe/ger)219
videos, interviews, javascript, typescript, microsoft
Developer Ecosystem Survey 2026 (jet)218
surveys, code-editors, tooling
Write Code That’s Easy to Delete: The Art of Impermanent Software217
maintainability
Agentic Coding Is a Trap216
ai-agents, ai
I Used to Love Coding—Now I Just Prompt (har)215
ai, career
Programming Still Sucks (ste)214
career
Parse, Don’t Validate—in a Language That Doesn’t Want You To213
parsing, validation, typescript, type-safety
Will AI Replace Software Developers?212
discussions, ai, career
The Design Engineer Symptom: What a Rising Job Title Reveals211
design, ai, career
The Diminished Art of Coding (nol)210
code-reviews, ai, vibe-coding
The Two Worlds of Programming: Why Developers Who Make the Same Observations About LLMs Come to Opposite Conclusions (bal)209
ai
The Real Skill in Programming Is Debugging—Everything Else Is Copy–Paste208
debugging
Fast Software: More Programmers, Not Fewer (yeg)207
career, hiring, ai
x86 CPU Made in CSS (reb)206
css, functionality
Lil’ Fun Langs (sur)205
overviews, link-lists
Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs. GPT-5: The 2026 Developer Benchmark204
claude, openai, ai, comparisons, metrics, documentation
Web Development Is More Than Frontend and Backend (Here’s What Actually Matters)203
career
A Programmer’s Loss of a Social Identity (rat)202
career, community
Rant: Did AI Kill Programmers?201
ai, career
A Brief History of Programming… (fir)200
videos, history
Software as Fast Fashion (tan)199
ai, sustainability, economics
Manufacturing as Code Is the Future, and the Future Is Now198
outlooks
The Next Two Years of Software Engineering (add)197
career, outlooks, ai
“Why Do You Code?”—a Surprisingly Hard Question196
discussions, career
The Fall of JavaScript (yeg)195
javascript, typescript
Nobody Knows How Large Software Products Work (sea)194
software-design, complexity, maintainability
The Vibe Coding Paradox (jun)193
vibe-coding, ai
Category Theory for JavaScript/TypeScript Developers (ibr)192
javascript, typescript, craft
The Era of Personal Software191
ai
You’re Not Building Netflix: Stop Coding Like You Are190
architecture, prioritization
How to Prepare for the Future of Programming (jet)189
how-tos, learning
Programming Principles for Self Taught Front-End Developers (kil/pic)188
principles
Rust vs. Python: Finding the Right Balance Between Speed and Simplicity (jet)187
rust, python, performance, simplicity, comparisons
12 Essential Java Best Practices Every Developer Should Follow186
java, best-practices, principles
Developers Shouldn’t Learn Design—Designers Shouldn’t Code (phi)185
design, processes, collaboration, project-management
Octoverse: A New Developer Joins GitHub Every Second as AI Leads TypeScript to #1184
github, metrics, productivity, ai, foss, security
Chasing “Done”: Why Software Never Ends—and Why That Matters (emb)183
maintenance, economics, processes
AI Doom Predictions Are Overhyped—Why Programmers Aren’t Going Anywhere182
videos, ai, career
Is It Even Worth Learning to Code? (tre)181
learning, ai
HTML—the Most Difficult Programming Language in the World (j9t)180
html, conformance, professionalism
9 Forms of Coupling in Software Architecture179
architecture
Is SOLID Still a Solid Choice for Software Design? (lan)178
solid, principles, oop
Thoughts on Object Creation (fra)177
software-design-patterns, oop
From McCabe to Essential Complexity176
quality, complexity, metrics
Big O (sam)175
algorithms, performance
10 Programming Mistakes That Will Ruin Your Life174
mistakes
The End of Type Annotations (yeg)173
annotations, compiling
How to Write Clean Code, Actually…172
how-tos, software-design, principles
Programming Is Becoming Prompting171
prompting, vibe-coding, ai
AI Has Flipped Software Development170
ai, design, prototyping, processes
Garbage Collection Was a Mistake (imp)169
garbage-collection, memory, java
The Three Great Virtues of an AI-Assisted Programmer (sea)168
ai, principles, career
Two AI Legends Predict the Future of Programming (and It’s Not What You Think)167
ai, outlooks
These 5 Programming Languages Are Quietly Taking Over in 2025166
rust, python, go, javascript
Stop Killing Frameworks and Languages165
java, python, django, flutter
Software Engineering With LLMs in 2025: Reality Check (ger)164
ai, tooling, metrics
Why Google Is Betting 8 Years on a Programming Language That Doesn’t Exist Yet163
google
Stop Coding Like You Work at Google (neo)162
google
No Time to Learn (Web) Framework X (jef)161
frameworks
Implementing an Undo/Redo System in a Complex Visual Application (mla)160
undo-redo
I’m a Software Engineer in My 30s, Sharing the 20 Hard Truths I Wish I Knew in My 20s to Avoid Career Burnout159
career, ai, tips-and-tricks
AI’s Wedge in Software (hvp)158
ai, concepts, processes
Every Service Should Have a Killswitch (sea)157
software-design
Developers Improve by Learning How to Think Like a Developer156
learning
Is HTML Not a Programming Language?155
html
37 Lessons From My 7 Years in Software Engineering154
lessons, career
Beyond Code: What “The Pragmatic Programmer” Taught Me in One Chapter153
books, lessons
Celebrate the Code You Didn’t Write (rya)152
simplicity
A Break From Programming Languages (lex)151
career
AI-Assisted Development Needs Automated Tests (sim)150
ai, testing, automation
How I Would Learn to Code (if I Could Start Over)149
ai, learning
7 Programming Myths That Waste Your Time (fir)148
videos, productivity, efficiency, myths
Can LLMs Earn $1M From Real Freelance Coding Work?147
ai, engineering-management, quality, economics
What Happens When a Program Calls Sleeps?146
videos
Stop Writing If–Else Trees: Use the State Pattern Instead145
software-design-patterns, conditionals
10 Hard Truths Every Dev Must Learn in 2025144
career, tips-and-tricks
Teaching Code in the AI Era: Why Fundamentals Still Matter (ali)143
training, ai, vibe-coding, security, scalability, performance, quality, testing, documentation
The Best Programmers I Know (mre)142
career, culture
There Is No Vibe Engineering141
vibe-coding, software-design
Cracking the Code of Vibe Coding140
processes, ai, vibe-coding, craft, technical-debt, design-debt
Not All AI-Assisted Programming Is Vibe Coding (but Vibe Coding Rocks) (sim)139
processes, ai, vibe-coding
Coding vs. Vibe Coding138
processes, ai, vibe-coding, comparisons
One Kilobyte to Copilot: My Journey Through Programming History137
ai, history
Subverting Control With Weak References (jlo)136
javascript
Google Just Confirmed the AI Reality Many Programmers Are Desperately Trying to Deny (tar)135
ai, productivity, google, github-copilot, code-editors, cursor
Simplify Nested Code (kei)134
nesting, conditionals, simplicity
The Problem With Indirections (dan)133
variables, functions, presentational-html, state-management
The End of Programming as We Know It (tim/ore)132
processes, ai, career, history, outlooks
How I Use AI: Meet My Promptly Hired Model Intern (mit)131
ai, processes, tooling
How Does a Compiler Work? (cod)130
compiling
How to Structure Functions (cfe)129
how-tos, functions
A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer in 2025 (rak)128
career
HTML Is Actually a Programming Language—Fight Me (tim/wir)127
html
The 20 Commandments of Software Engineering126
principles, complexity, documentation, commit-messages, code-reviews, dependencies, maintenance, collaboration
Why Metrics Cannot Measure Software Development125
metrics, efficiency, productivity
Concurrency vs. Parallelism124
concurrency, concepts, comparisons
Just Say “No” to JavaScript (nic/inf)123
javascript, typescript
Program Errors Out of Existence (ale)122
errors, principles
How I Feel About AI (jes)121
ai, productivity, ethics, sustainability
Why AI Can’t Replace Developers: The Real Limits of AI in Coding120
ai
Recursion Explained in Simple Terms (tre)119
concepts
Against Best Practices (arp)118
best-practices
Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering (lud)117
career, culture
Are AI Assistants Making Us Worse Programmers?116
career, ai, craft, quality
Why I Stopped Using “else” in Code (adm)115
conditionals, maintainability
25 Crazy Software Bugs Explained (fir)114
videos, bugs, quality, history
Introducing the Legendary Programmer Hall of Fame (tre)113
introductions, community
Octoverse: AI Leads Python to Top Language as the Number of Global Developers Surges112
research, github, community, ai, python, javascript, typescript, java, php, shells, go
Why I’m Skeptical of Rewriting JavaScript Tools in “Faster” Languages (nol)111
javascript, tooling
Unleash JavaScript’s Potential With Functional Programming (jan)110
javascript, comparisons
9 Laws That Every Software Developer Should Know109
principles
The Redmonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2024 (red)108
comparisons, javascript, python, java, php, typescript, css, ruby, go, shells, rust, dart
Why Copilot Is Making Programmers Worse at Programming107
ai, github-copilot, craft, quality, career
Tips for Reducing Cyclomatic Complexity (tre)106
complexity, tips-and-tricks, best-practices
Good Software Development Habits105
best-practices
The Top Programming Languages 2024 (iee)104
comparisons, python, java, javascript, typescript, sql, go, html, php, lua
Algorithms We Develop Software By (gra)103
processes, quality, best-practices
The Benefits of Learning Programming as a Designer102
design, career, learning
Programming, I Hate It101
career
Why Unknown Types Are Useful100
typescript
After CrowdStrike, Programmers Deserve Consequences99
career, quality
You Don’t Know Undo/Redo98
undo-redo
“I Have Never Used a Library, Framework, or an API. I Don’t Know What to Do.”97
career, training, libraries, frameworks, apis
UUIDv7 in 22 Languages (ant)96
javascript, python, sql, shells, java, php, go, rust, ruby, lua, dart, perl, clojure
Rust Growing Fastest, but JavaScript Reigns Supreme95
comparisons, rust, go, javascript, lua, dart, java, ruby, php, python
Top Development Cheat Sheets for 202494
cheat-sheets, link-lists, css
Design Taste vs. Technical Skills in the Era of AI (nng)93
design, ai, comparisons
Why Patching Globals Is Harmful92
javascript
The Evolution of Figma’s Mobile Engine: Compiling Away Our Custom Programming Language (fig)91
figma, typescript, migrating, case-studies
Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and the Eleven (!) Other Memory Safety Approaches90
memory, garbage-collection
Creativity in Software Engineering89
research, creativity
The Era of High-Paying Tech Jobs Is Over88
career, ai, economics
JavaScript Runs the World—Maybe Even Literally (wir)87
javascript, web
SOLID Principles: They’re Rock-Solid for Good Reason86
principles, solid
How to Get Good at Competitive Programming85
how-tos
Easy Introduction to Variables and Data Types in Programming for Beginners (ara)84
introductions, variables, types
How to Become a Better Programmer83
how-tos, career
Memorization and Learning to Code82
learning, productivity, career
How Languages Work: String Interpolation (jan)81
strings
Why Learning to Program Is Easier Now, but Also Way Harder Than Before80
learning, productivity, developer-experience
Good Code Is Like a Love Letter to the Next Developer Who Will Maintain It (add)79
quality, maintainability, communication
Storing Data in Control Flow (rsc)78
Top 10 Things You Should Add While Coding: Valuable Tips for Programmers77
tips-and-tricks
How to Learn Programming76
how-tos, learning
48 Laws, Rules, and Principles of Web Development (j9t)75
principles, terminology
10 Books to Improve Coding Skill in 202374
books, link-lists
A Beginner’s Introduction to the Most Common Data Types in Programming73
introductions, types
A List of Programming Playgrounds (b0r)72
link-lists, testing
Memory Allocation (sam)71
memory, visualization
Programming-Language Popularity by GitHub Pull Requests (lem)70
studies, research, comparisons, github, javascript, typescript
Why You Need to Code Every Day When You’re Learning to Program69
processes, learning
The Valley of Sorrow in Learning Programming (fla)68
learning
On the Layout of Tests (yeg)67
testing
Microfeatures I’d Like to See in More Languages (hil)66
Two Weird Things65
randomness, math
5 Ways to Make Your JavaScript More Functional64
javascript
The Best Programming Languages You Can Use for Web Development63
web-platform
What if the Team Hates My Functional Code?62
Software Development Has No Gatekeeping (fla)61
24 Tips for Beginner Programmers (fla)60
learning, tips-and-tricks
Which Programming Language Should I Learn First in 2022?59
career, learning
Imperative vs. Declarative Programming58
videos, comparisons
Functional Programming in PHP: Higher-Order Functions57
php, functions
How Do Arrays Work? (nan)56
arrays
Write Better Code and Be a Better Programmer by Avoiding “else” Statements55
best-practices
Should Coding Be Mandatory? (ara)54
training, career
Learn Programming (jad)53
websites, courses, javascript
The Three Types of Code (fon/css)52
concepts
A Philosophy of Software Design: My Take (and a Book Review) (ger)51
software-design, books
Parse, Don’t Validate (lex)50
parsing, validation
What Is Functional Programming?49
concepts
Deeply Understand Currying in 7 Minutes48
concepts
Algorithms in CSS (ppk)47
css, algorithms, naming
8 Good Reasons to Become a Software Developer (fla)46
career
Sacrificing the Golden Calf of “Coding” (cod/btc)45
videos, career
An Introduction to Functional JavaScript44
introductions, javascript
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (tim)43
time, myths
What’s a Transducer? (rag)42
javascript, functions, concepts
On Style Maintenance (sar/css)41
css, maintenance, maintainability, oocss
Code: Align the Happy Path to the Left Edge40
best-practices, go
Art and Philosophy in Programming39
art
Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes38
software-design, mistakes
Programming Languages and Programming Paradigms37
oop, go
Software Is Never Finished and Code Can Always Be Improved36
maintenance
Front-End Development Is Development (geo/css)35
career
Choose Boring Technology (mcf)34
tooling
Front End and Back End (ppk)33
career, comparisons
Programming Fonts32
websites, fonts, comparisons
Understanding Transducers31
functions, examples
What I’d Tell My Younger Self About Learning Development as a Web Designer30
learning, javascript, databases, servers, preprocessors, version-control, performance, security, career
The Syntax vs. the Spirit (chr/css)29
loops
Tell Don’t Ask (mfo)28
best-practices
The End of Object Inheritance and the Beginning of a New Modularity27
videos, conventions, principles
Reactive Programming (ast)26
javascript
Managing Technical Debt (acm)25
technical-debt, quality, processes
Moving From Java to Ruby and Beyond24
java, ruby
Smallest Possible […] File (mat)23
minimalism, examples, link-lists
More Shell, Less Egg (drd)22
shells, command-line
It’s All Go for Google (cra)21
google, go
The Difference Between a Web Developer and an Engineer20
career, terminology
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages19
history
My Coding Practices in 199118
conventions, retrospectives
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle… Your Code (dal/aja)17
best-practices, php
Why CSS Needs to Borrow From Programming Languages (mat)16
css, standards
The World’s Most Popular Programming Language Has Fashion and Luck to Thank (dou/ore)15
javascript, ajax, history
The State of Functional Programming in PHP (tro)14
php
Six Essential Language Agnostic Programming Books (sha)13
books
JSON vs. XML: Browser Programming Models (car)12
browsers, json, xml, comparisons
The State of Web Development: PHP Developers Most Likely to Switch to Rails (mat)11
php, ruby-on-rails
How Strict Is Your Dynamic Language?10
comparisons, perl, php, ruby, python
The Rule of Least Power (tim/w3c)9
software-design, principles
Who GETs REST?8
apis, rest, http
The Top 5 Red Flags of Software Development7
project-management
Declarative JavaScript Programming (and)6
javascript
On Search: Precision and Recall (tim)5
search
Manifesto for Agile Software Development (ken+)4
manifestos, processes, collaboration, agile
The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code (spo)3
version-control, building, culture, tooling, testing, quality, principles
Getting Started With XML Programming (ndw)2
introductions, xml
WWW: Beyond the Basics1
books, web, history, design, standards, outlooks