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Two very different philosophies for AI-assisted coding. One stays in your editor and whispers. The other rolls up its sleeves and gets to work....

The 3D web never arrived. Most users never consciously encountered a WebGL experience when casually web surfing. And yet today, WebGL is quietly running inside some of the most-used applications on the planet....

A story about a market that is drowning in noise. Noise created by large layoffs, vast automation, career pivots, and tools that have made applying for a job as frictionless as ordering takeout....

Here's a scenario playing out in engineering teams right now. A developer uses Claude Code or Copilot to ship a feature in two hours instead of two days. It works. Tests pass. It gets merged. Nobody looks too closely, because it looks fine, the code is clean, it's readable, it does what it's supposed to do....

The Zeigarnik Effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones. An "open loop" creates a specific kind of cognitive tension. The human brain hates ambiguity and it wants to close the loop....

After 22 years, I'm packing up and saying goodbye to the framework that kickstarted my entire career as a software engineer....

Have you ever tried to cancel a subscription and felt like you needed a map, a compass, and a PhD in linguistics just to find the "Yes, I really want to leave" button? ...

Even if you aren’t sitting in a coffee shop in Austin, this matters. The law applies to anyone who "produces a product or service used by residents of Texas."...

Not long ago I was cleaning up my personal portfolio website as I hadn't made any meaningful updates in a long time, and I realized just how many of the projects that I've worked on no longer exist on the internet....

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One of the most important roles that a mid-level developer has at a company, has less to do with code and more to do with understanding context....

The developer community woke up this week to shocking news: Tailwind Labs has laid off 75% of its software engineers....

That beautiful, buttery-smooth, multi-level animated dropdown menu your designer just handed you? The one with the custom illustrations, morphing icons, and parallax backgrounds? Yeah, that one's going to cost you....

So here's a question that frequently pops up in dev circles: is jQuery dead, dying, or just... there lingering in old codebases? ...

Despite the bold predictions from late 2024 that human software development would be dead by 2026, programmers still have jobs, companies st...