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Junior programmers are getting destroyed by AI — down 19%, while devs over 40 thrive. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without...

You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully. ‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ This seems...

A fable about ovens, founders, and the second-highest priority that never gets done.

Stillness amidst the chaos.

I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables....

How to add smooth, SPA-like page transitions to a static site using Hotwire

High agency might be the most important idea of the 21st century. This essay is what I wish I read at 18, rather than writing at 30. Join me in the high agency...

They are not verifying your age. They are building a permanent identity checkpoint over public life — and asking you to install it yourself. Here is why to...

A guide to implementing JSON-LD on your personal website for better SEO, covering WebSite, Person, BlogPosting, and more with ready-to-use code snippets.

If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.

An open letter from the technology industry, and the launch of Akrites - a coordinated effort to remediate vulnerabilities in the open source software the world...

Thomas Dullien’s guide to software and SaaS B2B entrepreneurship.

AI can make implementation cheap while making review and judgment more expensive.

KO | EN This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little...

“After all, who could be opposed to getting more done with less work?”

FacebookEmail3PinterestRedditShare3SHARESThe night before you travel somewhere, order your favorite pizza, eat some of it for dinner, and seal the rest in a bag...

AI coding agents are becoming part of everyday development. They can write code, refactor classes, create tests, and explain complex codebases. But just like a...

Tailwind is great. It's a quick way to style a webpage and offers incredible flexibility. The problem is, despite Tailwind being incredibly customisable I can...

My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

Coding agents as normal technology