Linus Torvalds, Creator of Git and Linux, on reducing cognitive load
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| 2025-09-12 |
How to Write "Garbage Code" (by Linus Torvalds)
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| 2025-05-10 |
How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast
Merkle Trees in the real world
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| 2025-03-09 |
Metric-Driven Development and The Claude Effect
Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
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| 2024-11-12 |
5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About
Innovations outside the AI spotlight
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| 2024-10-09 |
How Fireship became YouTube's favorite programmer
How Fireship wins YouTube
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| 2024-09-05 |
The Boolean Trap
Use enums instead
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| 2024-07-08 |
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships
Wisdom from Linus Torvalds, the creator of Git and Linux
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| 2024-04-22 |
4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
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| 2024-02-23 |
Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.
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| 2024-01-14 |
How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the…
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| 2023-12-15 |
A simple programming productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow
A breakdown of 4 simple software engineering and coding habits that improved my productivity. These include keyboard shortcuts, learning to say no…
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| 2023-12-04 |
How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
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| 2023-11-20 |
Clever code is probably the worst code you could write
And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
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| 2023-11-13 |
How one line of code caused a $60 million loss
60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were delayed
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| 2023-10-27 |
The most valuable trait of great software engineers
A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable software engineers.
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| 2023-10-22 |
Meta's serverless platform processes trillions of function calls a day
XFaaS is Meta's private platform for "Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions." It is more efficient than AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google…
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| 2023-10-16 |
How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps
The Burnout Playbook for software engineers
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| 2023-10-11 |
How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away From a Monolith
4 lessons from Airbnb's scaling strategy, with comparisons to other big tech companies
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| 2023-10-06 |
How Google writes clean, maintainable code
Google's SWE Book explains their readability process and style guides
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| 2023-10-02 |
How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply
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| 2023-09-28 |
10 lessons from successful one-person startups
I interviewed 7 indie hackers and full-time SWEs with side ventures for their insights.
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| 2023-09-25 |
How Facebook served billions of requests per second Using Memcached
The largest Memcached system in the world
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| 2023-09-18 |
4 lessons from small teams that ship fast
Software engineering provides a lot of leverage.
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| 2023-09-15 |
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
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