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Why did Stripe build Sorbet? (~2017) (lethain.com)

3 weeks ago | nickwritesit | lethain.com | newest

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Can LLMs earn $1M from real freelance coding work? (getdx.com)

3 weeks ago | nickwritesit | getdx.com | frontpage

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How might AI change programming? (thorstenball.com)

4 months ago | nickwritesit | thorstenball.com | newest

2

AI and Emotional Infiltration (robhorning.substack.com)

4 months ago | nickwritesit | substack.com | newest

1

Surely not all code's worth it (thorstenball.com)

5 months ago | nickwritesit | thorstenball.com | newest

1

Write code with your Alphabet Radio on, not an LLM (vickiboykis.com)

5 months ago | nickwritesit | vickiboykis.com | newest

51

The Most Expensive Eating Disorder (desmolysium.com)

5 months ago | nickwritesit | desmolysium.com | best

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I Use AI 100 Times per Hour (tomtunguz.com)

5 months ago | nickwritesit | tomtunguz.com | frontpage

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Social Media as a Test of Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI (thediff.co)

5 months ago | nickwritesit | thediff.co | newest

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How GenAI is reshaping tech hiring (pragmaticengineer.com)

5 months ago | nickwritesit | pragmaticengineer.com | newest

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The Toll of Being a Disruptor (learningbyshipping.com)

6 months ago | nickwritesit | learningbyshipping.com | newest

2

Microsoft research: What causes 'bad days' for developers? (getdx.com)

6 months ago | nickwritesit | getdx.com | newest

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My invention: Printing press – writing without scribes (twitter.com/iroasmas)

6 months ago | nickwritesit | twitter.com | newest

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Is AI Progress Hitting a Wall? (No) (every.to/chain-of-thought)

6 months ago | nickwritesit | every.to | newest

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Why are we using LLMs as calculators? (vickiboykis.com)

6 months ago | nickwritesit | vickiboykis.com | newest

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What Trump's win means for tech (pragmaticengineer.com)

6 months ago | nickwritesit | pragmaticengineer.com | newest

2

Toward a Phenomenology of the Phone (newcartographies.com)

6 months ago | nickwritesit | newcartographies.com | newest

1

2024 Dora Report (getdx.com)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | getdx.com | newest

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Expensive Housing Is Both a Policy Problem and a Symptom of Growth (thediff.co)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | thediff.co | newest

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Both Democrats and Republicans Can Pass the Ideological Turing Test (experimental-history.com)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | experimental-history.com | newest

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Business Reality Without Frameworks (commoncog.com)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | commoncog.com | newest

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You Can't Escape Stack-Ranking (thediff.co)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | thediff.co | newest

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A leader's guide to active and reflective listening (leaddev.com)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | leaddev.com | newest

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Why techies leave Big Tech (pragmaticengineer.com)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | pragmaticengineer.com | newest

2

Things I've learned by my 28th birthday (avabear.xyz)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | avabear.xyz | newest

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I Hired ChatGPT as My Career Coach (every.to/learning-curve)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | every.to | newest

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What Does "Venture-Scale" Mean? (thediff.co)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | thediff.co | newest

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Modeling Impact of LLMs on Developer Experience (lethain.com)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | lethain.com | newest

4

Avoiding the Prep Trap: A Key to Rapid Learning (nateliason.com)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | nateliason.com | newest

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The Edge Case/PR Tradeoff (thediff.co)

7 months ago | nickwritesit | thediff.co | newest

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Clock time contra lived time (aeon.co)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | aeon.co | newest

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Main character syndrome Why romanticizing your life is philosophically dubious (aeon.co)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | aeon.co | newest

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Testing strategy: avoid the waterfall strategy trap with iterative refinement (lethain.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | lethain.com | newest

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The One-person Billion-dollar Company (every.to/feeds)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | every.to | newest

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The case for handcrafted software in a mass-produced world (theregister.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | theregister.com | newest

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The Problems That Google Docs Never Solved (amistrongeryet.substack.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | substack.com | frontpage

2

Businesses as Ecosystem Organisms (commoncog.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | commoncog.com | newest

2

Legacy Modernization Meets GenAI (martinfowler.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | martinfowler.com | newest

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Legacy Modernization Meets GenAI (martinfowler.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | martinfowler.com | newest

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Explaining OpenAI's O1 Model (every.to/feeds)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | every.to | newest

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Is Reading over for Gen Z Students? (chronicle.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | chronicle.com | newest

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The Button Problem of AI (every.to/napkin-math)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | every.to | newest

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Beware of Founder Mode (leaddev.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | leaddev.com | newest

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How to choose the right generative AI vendor (leaddev.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | leaddev.com | newest

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N=1: Single-Subject Research (slimemoldtimemold.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | slimemoldtimemold.com | newest

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Story Point Estimation Doesn't Work (uplevelteam.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | uplevelteam.com | newest

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Big Tech as a Fleet Rather Than an Aircraft Carrier (thediff.co)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | thediff.co | newest

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TikTok Users as an LLM (thenewinquiry.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | thenewinquiry.com | newest

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He saved his town from deadly floodwaters. Why did the government stop him? (theguardian.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | theguardian.com | newest

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ChatGPT Goes to Church (plough.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | plough.com | newest

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Is Affirmation Culture Sabotaging Our Friendships and Ourselves? (thecut.com)

8 months ago | nickwritesit | thecut.com | newest

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What Happened to Motorola (chicagomag.com)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | chicagomag.com | frontpage

2

The Idea Maze Is a Useless Idea (commoncog.com)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | commoncog.com | frontpage

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80% of AI Projects Crash and Burn, Billions Wasted Says Rand Report (salesforcedevops.net)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | salesforcedevops.net | best

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Nikita Bier's playbook for making apps consistently go viral (lennysnewsletter.com)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | lennysnewsletter.com | newest

2

Which books last and which don't (countercraft.substack.com)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | substack.com | newest

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The startup purge event is here (pragmaticengineer.com)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | pragmaticengineer.com | newest

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U.S. Added 818,000 Fewer Jobs Than Reported Earlier (nytimes.com)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | nytimes.com | best

3

What went wrong with the Silicon Valley right (crookedtimber.org)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | crookedtimber.org | newest

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Why Behavior Change is so Difficult (jamesstuber.com)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | jamesstuber.com | newest

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The Absurdity Heuristic (thediff.co)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | thediff.co | newest

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Playing with guns and phones: what it means to love a powerful technology (arenamag.com)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | arenamag.com | newest

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Embracing Sub-Optimal Relationships (theconvivialsociety.substack.com)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | substack.com | newest

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AI Works Better When You Make It Pretend (every.to/also-true-for-humans)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | every.to | newest

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Mediocre docs are sabotaging your growth (calyx.substack.com)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | substack.com | newest

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The Modern Antitrust Paradox (thediff.co)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | thediff.co | newest

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A Million-Dollar Software Idea (every.to/feeds)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | every.to | newest

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Tinder Is Way More Important Than You Think (every.to/feeds)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | every.to | newest

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New Research: So Far, AI Is Not Disrupting Search or Making a Dent in Google (sparktoro.com)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | sparktoro.com | newest

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Research: Cognitive Load Drivers in Large Scale Software Development (getdx.com)

9 months ago | nickwritesit | getdx.com | newest

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Why Zig is one of the hottest programming languages to learn (leaddev.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | leaddev.com | newest

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Lessons from CrowdStrike's Global Outage (leaddev.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | leaddev.com | newest

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ELI5: The CrowdStrike Outage (technically.dev)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | technically.dev | newest

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How to Be (Reasonably) Hard on Yourself (nateliason.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | nateliason.com | newest

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State of Developer Experience 2024 (getdx.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | getdx.com | newest

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What would it take to recreate Bell Labs? (construction-physics.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | construction-physics.com | best

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I gave myself a month to make one new friend (esquire.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | esquire.com | frontpage

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Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty (lethain.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | lethain.com | newest

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Founders: You're going to fail your first pilot, and that's okay (readamplified.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | readamplified.com | newest

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The rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age privacy (smithsonianmag.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | smithsonianmag.com | best

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Identity: Self-Hosted or in the Cloud? (goauthentik.io)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | goauthentik.io | frontpage

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How close is AI to replacing product managers? (lennysnewsletter.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | lennysnewsletter.com | newest

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Improving Developer Experience Requires Quantitative Data (uplevelteam.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | uplevelteam.com | newest

4

You Are Not Google (bradfieldcs.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | bradfieldcs.com | newest

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The coming eBPF revolution and why Kubernetes monitoring will never be the same (getanteon.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | getanteon.com | frontpage

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Why Open Source Companies Struggle: On Balancing Open Source Values and Business [video] (youtube.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | youtube.com | newest

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Measuring Developer Productivity via Humans (martinfowler.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | martinfowler.com | newest

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Study: For every 1k Google Searches, only 360 go to the open web (sparktoro.com)

10 months ago | nickwritesit | sparktoro.com | newest

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What Game of Thrones did to the media (theverge.com)

11 months ago | nickwritesit | theverge.com | newest

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If agile isn't dead, why is it still not working? (leaddev.com)

11 months ago | nickwritesit | leaddev.com | newest

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We've got the wrong theory about how minds work and it's ruining our lives (experimental-history.com)

11 months ago | nickwritesit | experimental-history.com | newest

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Therapy Isn't the (Only) Answer (woman-of-letters.com)

11 months ago | nickwritesit | woman-of-letters.com | newest

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Destroy AI (ali-alkhatib.com)

11 months ago | nickwritesit | ali-alkhatib.com | newest

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The Technical History of Kubernetes (medium.com/bgrant0607)

11 months ago | nickwritesit | medium.com | newest

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Feral pigeons and the London Pigeon String Foot and Rescue group (bbc.com)

11 months ago | nickwritesit | bbc.com | frontpage

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Twitter and the spread of academic knowledge (mattsclancy.substack.com)

11 months ago | nickwritesit | substack.com | best

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The shape of information How to extract insights with limited resources (kucharski.substack.com)

11 months ago | nickwritesit | substack.com | newest

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WebAssembly is still waiting for its moment (leaddev.com)

11 months ago | nickwritesit | leaddev.com | newest

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Myths of Grit and Passion (annehelen.substack.com)

11 months ago | nickwritesit | substack.com | newest

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How did AI–science fiction's infamous dystopian boogeyman–become cringe? (nguyenterry.substack.com)

11 months ago | nickwritesit | substack.com | newest