Software engineering

• Software has bugs. This is normal. DHH
• The simplest thing that could possibly work by DHH
• User-friendly system deliberately provides fewer features
• Locality of Behaviour (LoB)
• How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
• A better alternative to MPAs and SPAs
• SPA Alternative
• Hypermedia-Driven Applications
• What are questions?
• Holding a program in one’s head
• Don’t Solve Imaginary Problems
• Snowflake method for software projects
• Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry
• The Code Review Mindset
• Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story
• Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns
• Best websites a programmer should visit
• What growth engineers can teach us about engineering
• How I build MVPs within 3 days
• Hunting for great names in programming
• How to actually ship software that actually works
• On Being A Senior Engineer
• The Shocking Secret About Static Types
• Make Large Scale Changes Incrementally with Branch By Abstraction
• Enabling Trunk Based Development with Deployment Pipelines
• Tell, Don’t Ask
• Designing Data-Driven Interfaces
• OSS. Why this is not still merged?
• How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp
• Full-stack development is alive and well. And for good reasons.
• Thoughts on Calypso, WordPress and JavaScript
• How to Improve as a Programmer
• How We Got Over Our Fear of SEO and Improved Conversions
• A Gentle Introduction to Data Structures: How Graphs Work
• Composition vs Inheritance
• Here’s Why Client-side Rendering Won
• Surge VS GitHub Pages: How to deploy a create-react-app project
• Read a lot of software, and write a lot of software
• How you can learn more by writing code than by reading it
• REST in Peace: Microservices vs monoliths in real-life examples
• Replacing React with Rails. Or, Use the Right Tools for the Job
• By building projects for 100 days straight you’ll make the coding your daily habit
• Why the founder of Rails automatically rejects 80% of Software Engineer applicants
• Journey to HTTP/2
• Why I’m Done Making Desktop Applications
• 12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory
• We reverse engineered 16k apps, here’s what we found
• Why you should have your own Twitter bot, and how to build one in less than 30 minutes
• Create a Simple Twitter Bot with Node.js
• 8 Ways Twitter Bots Are Actually Helping Us
• The many, many ways that cryptographic software can fail
• How we got our 2-year-old repo trending on GitHub in just 48 hours
• Lossless Web Navigation with Trails
• An interview with the creator of Linux: “Successful projects are 99 percent perspiration, and one percent innovation”
• Horses for courses
• Introduction to Web Audio API
• My Text Editor Journey: Vim, Spacemacs, Atom and Sublime Text
• The 100% Correct Coding Style Guide
• How To Get Experience Working With Large Datasets
• Here’s How You Start Using Docker
• What it’s like to build and market a chatbot when you’re only 14 years old
• The Rule of Three
• Stopping the Death Spiral of Indecision
• Fewer and Faster
• NGINX rate-limiting in a nutshell
• How to make your Tic Tac Toe game unbeatable by using the minimax algorithm
• An essential guide to the serverless ecosystem (2017)
• Sharding & IDs at Instagram
• Spotting Feature Envy and Refactoring
• Refactoring from Good to Great by Ben (Ruby Conf 2012. Video 44m)
• Mastering Chrome Developer Tools: Next Level Front-End Development Techniques
• Why Static Site Generators Are The Next Big Thing
• Static Site Generators Reviewed: Jekyll, Middleman, Roots, Hugo
• Building a Static CMS (Contentful + Roots + Netlify)
• How we got 1,500 GitHub stars by mixing time-tested technology with a fresh UI
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
• Five Factor Testing
• Vary: User-Agent header
• Installable Web Apps with the Web App Manifest
• How I Reduced my DB Server Load by 80% (Shneems)
• Rise of Functions as a Service: How PHP Set the “Serverless” Stage 20 Years Ago
• It’s ok to use JavaScript generated GUID in a browser?
• I wanted real time GitHub push notifications. So I built a Chrome extension
• A responsive screenshot comparison tool
• WTF is a Thread (by Schneems)
• Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?
• My web app died from performance bankruptcy
• Can You Afford It?: Real-world Web Performance Budgets
• Take control of your scroll: customizing pull-to-refresh and overflow effects
• Rerere Your Boat… (git rerere functionality)
• Git Shortcuts Like You’ve Never Seen Before
• Lesser known Git commands
• Git Submodules
• git fixup: –amend for older commits
• The Modular Monolith: Rails Architecture
• Write business rules in Clojure (Clara Rules)
• Password Form Styles that Chromium Understands
• The Comprehensive Guide to Serverless Architecture (2017)
• Documenting Architecture Decisions
• Using the Marketing API with the Facebook Pixel
• Securing User Emails in Rails (GDPR)
• Why I hate your Single Page App
• Build a JavaScript Single Page App Without a Framework
• Kanban: caring about the whole development process
• What does a VP of Engineering do?
• The “Bug-O” Notation
• The Elements of UI Engineering
• Abusing web browsers for persistent and stealthy computation
• Google is building an AI by Steve Yegge 2004
• The Part-Time Parliament (Consistency, Distributed Systems)
• Apple’s biggest Swift mistake (Aor 2019)
• The State of the Octoverse: top programming languages of 2018
• Speed in Software Development
• The mythical 10x programmer
• Why Functional Programming Matters
• What is a socket from a programming perspective?
• Spinlock - A mutex for OS kernels
• How do I “git blame” a deleted line?
• Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program
• 20 controversial programming opinions
• Taiji: managing global user traffic for large-scale Internet services at the edge
• Don’t Distract New Programmers with OOP
• What is the difference between polymorphism and duck typing?
• Building a secure by default, composable future for WebAssembly
• The Transformation Priority Premise (Uncle Bob)
• Emscripten and the LLVM WebAssembly backend
• What is WebAssembly 2022
• I wrote a programming language. Here’s how you can, too
• Visitor pattern (Wiki)
• Decorator vs Visitor design patterns
• LLVM - the design decisions (Chris Lattner)
• The Maintenance of Large Open-Source Projects
• What is Edge compute (Steve Klabnik)
• Stack based vs Register based Virtual Machine Architecture
• Welcome to C# 9.0
• Why does integer division in C# return an integer and not a float?
• C#: Program Entirely With Static Methods
• What is WebAssembly, and what is it not?
• HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future
• Fossil vs Git
• The Configuration Complexity Clock
• Heisenberg Developers
• The Onion Of Compromise
• An introduction to UNIX processes
• SSL certificate revocation and how it is broken in practice
• An alternative to macOS’s DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
• Nix by example
• Setting expectations for open source participation
• Programmers are bad at managing state
• OO vs FP by Robert C. Martin
• What would … if only 1/10th the resources?
• What made Lisp different
• Production Twitter on One Machine? Tristan Hume
• Only 1% Need Microservices
• Memory, Pages, mmap, and Linear Address Spaces
• Code that Doesn’t Rot
• How to do distributed locking
• Actually Portable Executable
• Minimalism in Programming
• Mitigating replication lag and reducing read load with freno
• How to exclude commits from git blame
• Why Gumroad Didn’t Choose htmx
• Writing tests that fail