Software Development News and Articles

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....

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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...

Remember the last time you had to reset a password because you couldn't remember if you used your dog's name, your birth year, or that rando...

I've recently come across several articles and videos titled "What it's like to be an on-call software developer" or "The harsh truths of be...

The JavaScript Gamepad API has been around since 2012 and has solid support across most modern browsers. Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, they...

Typing animations can add personality to your website, draw attention to important messages, or simply create a more dynamic user experience...

We've all been there. Clicking a button and watching a blank screen while wondering if anything is actually happening. Traditional loading s...

*A discourse on the value of depth over activity in software development.* One of the most talented developers that I've had the pleasure o...