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A UC Berkeley researcher raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in daily life.

How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions

AI can write code, but it cannot make you senior. Learn how curiosity, emulation, autonomy, and collaboration help engineers grow in an agentic world.

[I shared this note with my team earlier this week, and am posting it here as well. I hope it is interesting or helpful for others working on building product...

Doing those CMS updates. Updating Ubuntu on the server. Upgrading your PHP version. Upgrading the database. Getting rid of deprecation notices. Making sure...

Today, I realized that running my own business (successfully for a while) is a big part of what made me hate capitalism so damn much. For nearly a decade, I...

Rescuing a field from disappearing

Suppose you have a web app that lets users upload photos. Cool! But there's a catch: photos straight from a phone camera can easily be around 8 MB each. On a...

Learn what Jev is, how it compares to LLMs, what it costs, and how to use it for fast AI decisions with practical examples and a TypeScript demo.

Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.

AI forced me to abandon evidence-based best pedagogy practices, focus on oral and written exams, and redo most assignments. Here is what we did in 17-645...

KO | EN | Discussions on HN People who make software go by many names. Developer is the most common, while programmer sounds neutral and a little traditional....

Field notes on shipping fast, privacy-first, evergreen web products.

For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of those…

Why AI-generated event posters all look alike — and how naming a design style and era, from Bauhaus to punk fanzine, gets far better results.

Every element I use for the basic structure of a HTML document, with explanations why.

Effective writing for software developers

Open answers to a reader's letter.