Programming

🕑 Jul 17, 2025

https://notashelf.dev/posts/curse-of-knowing

The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything

🕑 Jul 16, 2025

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https://antirez.com/news/145

We are destroying software

🕑 Jan 26, 2025

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JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

-- Douglas Crockford

🕑 Jan 27, 2025

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Over half of the time you spend working on a project is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you.

-- Richard P. Gabriel

https://plainvanillaweb.com/index.html

🕑 Jul 11, 2025

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Plain Vanilla - an explainer for web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

🕑 Jul 10, 2025

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https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy

Writing Toy Software Is A Joy

Why you should write more toy programs

https://mertbulan.com/2025/06/26/why-i-dont-ride-the-ai-hype-train/

🕑 Jul 10, 2025

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Why I don't ride the AI Hype Train

🕑 Jul 6, 2025

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https://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck

Writing code was never the bottleneck

🕑 May 21, 2025

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Debugging time increases as a square of the program’s size.

-- Chris Wenham

🕑 May 20, 2025

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/product-pseudoscience/

Product Pseudoscience

🕑 Dec 17, 2024

Write a paper promising salvation, make it a 'structured' something or a 'virtual' something, or 'abstract', 'distributed' or 'higher-order' or 'applicative' and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

🕑 May 17, 2025

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The problem is that coding isn’t fun if all you can do is call things out of a library, if you can’t write the library yourself.

-- Donald Knuth

🕑 Apr 28, 2025

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I’ll throw away code as soon I want to add something to it and I get the feeling that what I have to do to add it is too hard.

-- Ken Thompson

🕑 Apr 27, 2025

https://minds.md/zakirullin/cognitive

Cognitive load is what matters

🕑 Apr 25, 2025

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One of the greatest joys in computer programming is discovering a new, faster, more efficient algorithm for doing something — particularly if a lot of well-respected people have come up with worse solutions.

-- Danny Hillis

🕑 Apr 24, 2025

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/bet-on-systems-not-sparks/

Bet on systems, not sparks

🕑 Apr 24, 2025

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The efficiency of the code decreases with an increase in the number of people working on the program. The most efficient programs are written by a single person.

-- Charles Simonyi

🕑 Mar 3, 2025

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The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers.

-- Fred Brooks

🕑 Feb 26, 2025

https://github.com/MichiganTypeScript/typescript-types-only-wasm-runtime

A TypeScript-types-only WebAssembly runtime

"This engine was built to service a project that aimed to demonstrate why Doom can't run in TypeScript types. Well. The funny thing is.. It can."

🕑 Feb 26, 2025

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Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

🕑 Feb 25, 2025

https://twomorecents.org/writing-regex-engine/index.html

Writing a regular expression engine

🕑 Feb 20, 2025

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https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/examples-of-great-urls/

Examples of great URL design

🕑 Feb 19, 2025

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Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

-- Chris Sacca

🕑 Feb 17, 2025

https://dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software/

Cold-blooded software

🕑 Feb 17, 2025

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If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

-- David Leinweber

🕑 Feb 16, 2025

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https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that."

🕑 Feb 15, 2025

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Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.

-- Eric S. Raymond

🕑 Feb 14, 2025

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2024/06/03/youll-regret-using-natural-keys/

You'll regret using natural keys

🕑 Feb 14, 2025

Communication must be stateless in nature, such that each request from client to server must contain all of the information necessary to understand the request, and cannot take advantage of any stored context on the server.

-- Roy Fielding

🕑 Feb 13, 2025

There are many terrible mistakes to make in program design, so go ahead and make them so that you understand them better.

-- Marijn Haverbeke

🕑 Feb 12, 2025

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Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

-- Fred Brooks

🕑 Feb 11, 2025

https://rubenerd.com/boring-tech-is-mature-not-old/

Boring tech is mature, not old

🕑 Feb 11, 2025

A framework can provide 90% of the features we need quickly - giving us a false sense of confidence early in the development cycle - and then be frustratingly hard when it comes to implementing the last 10%.

-- Tony Parisi

🕑 Feb 10, 2025

Premature abstraction is as bad as premature optimization.

-- Luciano Ramalho

🕑 Feb 8, 2025

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I've never been a lover of existing code. Code by itself almost rots and it’s gotta be rewritten. Even when nothing has changed, for some reason it rots.

-- Ken Thompson

🕑 Feb 7, 2025

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Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

-- Niklaus Wirth

🕑 Feb 6, 2025

The real problem with throwaway code comes when it isn't thrown away.

-- Joseph Yoder

🕑 Feb 5, 2025

Program designers have a tendency to think of the users as idiots who need to be controlled. They should rather think of their program as a servant, whose master, the user, should be able to control it.

-- John McCarthy

🕑 Feb 4, 2025

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The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.

-- Jeff Hammerbacher

🕑 Feb 3, 2025

https://irreducible.io/blog/my-wasm-interpreter/

Writing a Wasm interpreter in C

🕑 Feb 3, 2025

Coding is "90 percent finished" for half of the total coding time. Debugging is "99 percent complete" most of the time.

-- Fred Brooks

🕑 Feb 2, 2025

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

-- Douglas Crockford

🕑 Feb 1, 2025

https://linus.coffee/note/software-industry/

Thoughts on the software industry

🕑 Feb 1, 2025

What is programming? Some people call it a science, some people call it an art, some people call it a skill. I think it has aspects of all three.

-- Charles Simonyi

https://jimmyhmiller.github.io/ugliest-beautiful-codebase

🕑 Jan 31, 2025

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"We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase

🕑 Jan 31, 2025

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A skilled programmer is like a poet who can put into words those ideas that others find inexpressible.

-- Danny Hillis

🕑 Jan 30, 2025

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In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

-- Butler Lampson

🕑 Jan 28, 2025

I’ve got this need to program. I wake up in the morning with sentences of a literate program. Before breakfast -- I’m sure poets must feel this -- I have to go to the computer and write this paragraph and then I can eat and I’m happy.

-- Donald Knuth

🕑 Jan 28, 2025

https://nemo.foo/blog/day-4-of-an-afternoon-project

My afternoon project turned into four days of AI lies, USB chaos, and hard lessons

🕑 Jan 27, 2025

https://dicioccio.fr/on-dualities.html

Dualities in functional programming