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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.

Pere Villega's blog

A lot of effective engineering comes from the accumulation of small nuggets of knowledge.

Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.

If you’ve been into side projects, you’ve probably seen countless times the story of someone building something really big and complex, launching it, and having...

small programs hide coupling

What are the true limits to motivation?

Creating software by writing code by hand and having humans review it is coming to an end. Why the Bun 1.4 release marks the end of programming as we've known...

Personal website of Matthias Endler, a Software Engineer interested in low-level programming and Backend development. Rust, Go

Working with AI is less predictable than traditional software. That makes leadership skills such as context, clarity, and feedback more valuable.

The manifestation of my imposter syndrome, for me and today, is what does it mean to be a software engineer. There's a lot more noise than signal on the...

Solid core + capability-based sandboxes + LLMs = Users with superpowers

If someone asks you something, send your answer. Not the AI's.

The argument says AI erased the junior engineer's marginal value. An intern who shipped a feature that had been waiting for years suggests otherwise.

My book has a linter, ~5,500 automated checks, and a Pandoc pipeline that rebuilds five formats (EPUB, Kindle, paperback ×2, and web) on every git push. For a...

How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.