Comfort can quietly reduce resilience and growth if it becomes the default.

A critique of safetyism and the tradeoffs it brings to growth and resilience.

A provocative essay on what the web could be if a site replaced everything else.

Benchmarks comparing Postgres-based pub/sub and queue approaches.

A reflection on how heavy AI use can erode writing and coding skills.

A perspective on how senior developers can frame expertise in terms others care about.

A deep dive into treating server data as components and composing ViewModels with JSX.

A reflection on how AI tools can make engineers more exhausted even as they ship faster.

A practical take on wrong and correct system design approaches.

A reflection on how thinking about cognitive load is important on software engineering.

A critique of app-first products that degrade the web experience to push users into native apps.

A critique of using AI agents to bypass the learning that makes research meaningful.

Why traditional logging fails and how wide events can improve observability.

A candid reflection on pace, burnout, and why slowing down can be necessary.

AI is changing a lifelong relationship with programming and building things.

A reflection on how modern life and reading habits can quietly set expectations too high.

A reflection on shallow wants, consumption, and their effect on a meaningful life.

A personal reflection about learning, growth, and changing skill levels over time.

A twelve-step walkthrough of game design fundamentals and why they are deceptively hard.

The gap between AI coding hype and the amount of real software it has produced.

Motion should be used sparingly and only when it truly helps.

Advocates building the smallest solution that solves the problem well.

A reflection on ambition, self-pressure, and the ways overreach can hide fear.

Coordination, decisions, and context are usually the real bottlenecks.

A reflection on craftsmanship, work, and a memorable life in plumbing.

A sharp cultural article about work, status, and modern middle-class life.

Dan Moore on framing requests around getting a clear no instead of a hopeful yes.

A parenting reflection inspired by the marshmallow experiment.

Grief and new motherhood reshaping a person's body, brain, and sense of self.

A rant about caring.

Charles Hugh Smith on burnout, work strain, and the hidden pressure behind quitting.

A case for living near close friends.

Practical advice for getting software across the finish line and out the door.

A classic article about simplicity, pragmatism, and software design tradeoffs.

A personal reflection on growth, identity, and how the internet shapes us.

Remaining where you are and doing the hard work of repair.

A visual analysis of WALL-E through typography, interface design, and storytelling.

Career advice and lessons learned from years of software development.

A reflection on riffing, ripping, and how design actually evolves.

Paul Graham on sticking with hard problems long enough to compound progress.

Why it can be worth reading books you do not fully understand.

Practical guidance for designing websites that still work on poor connections.

An explanation of what causes React components to re-render.

A reminder that programming is primarily a cognitive problem-solving activity.

A database design argument for preferring surrogate keys in many cases.

A grandson reflects on a man who passed away quietly in the mountains of North Carolina.

A one-dimensional spectrum can better describe sites and apps.

Habits and mental models that help developers improve.

Advice on how developers can improve learning, retention, and growth.

The human, process, and communication side of software engineering.

A critique of common product-management dysfunctions and incentives.

A productivity article about how different budgets shape engineering work.

A critique of abstraction-heavy software and the costs that follow.

A humorous manifesto for keeping software simple and avoiding overengineering.

Salary negotiation advice for engineers, with a strong track record of pay raises.

Effects are a part of your data flow.

An in-depth description of the React programming model.

A defense of work that can be rebuilt, replaced, and improved quickly.

An opinion piece using a gothic framing to critique IT status reporting.

Warns against solving hypothetical issues that make software worse.

Argues for building software for present needs instead of speculative futures.

Argues that reinventing tools can build understanding, teach tradeoffs, and create better solutions.

A contextual collection of advice from two decades in software engineering.

An online course for advanced TypeScript type-system challenges.

Learn how the browser turns code into a functional website.

Everything you need to know about Time to Interactive.

A set of interface rules and heuristics for safer, clearer design.

A site urging clearer docs by avoiding language that calls things simple.

Why high-growth tech companies tend to produce stronger software teams.

Paul Graham on identity, self-conception, and how labels shape thinking.

An essay about how our theories of mind can go wrong.

An experimental interactive piece about life, motion, and simple systems.

When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!"

Stock charts adjusted for inflation and reinvested dividends.