25 years in web dev and I’m starting to hate the "Modern Web." : r/webdevelopmentby briancrabtree on www.reddit.comsoftwaremodern web is bloatedNoted January 5, 2026
How Uber Built a Real-Time Push System for Millions of Location Updates | EP: 4 Behind The Screenby Sushant Dhiman on sushantdhiman.substack.comuber architecture softwaredeep dive on polling -> push evolutionNoted January 5, 2026
The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web | by Paul Allies | Dec, 2025 | Mediumby https://paulallies.medium.com on paulallies.medium.comarchitecture softwarebuilding a lighter web-page is a good idea regardlessNoted January 5, 2026
The Mythical Man-Month at 50by Kieran Potts on kieranpotts.comarchitecture softwarea revisit of mythical man month and software complexity - deep diveNoted January 5, 2026
Software Engineering Job Market Outlook for 2026by Kaustubh Saini on www.finalroundai.comai software economics jobsai is coverage for outsourcingNoted January 5, 2026
AddyOsmani.com - 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Googleby Addy Osmani on addyosmani.comsoftware programmingsoftware lessons learned from experienceNoted January 5, 2026
AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projectsby Simon Willison on simonwillison.netai softwareai can start anythingNoted December 28, 2025
[2512.03262] Is Vibe Coding Safe? Benchmarking Vulnerability of Agent-Generated Code in Real-World Tasksby Songwen Zhao, Danqing Wang, Kexun Zhang, Jiaxuan Luo, Zhuo Li, Lei Li on arxiv.orgai software securitystudy on AI generated code securityNoted December 21, 2025
30 Years of <br> Tagsby artmann.co on www.artmann.coai software historythis is also my history with software - eerily soNoted December 21, 2025
Seeing through the microservices hype – Peter Morrisby Peter Morris on peterlesliemorris.comarchitecture softwareship the whole app - not the piecesNoted December 21, 2025
2 years with Shape-Up, and why we switched back | Scale Xby Alex Wauters on scalex.devagile softwareexperience with shape-up sprints (6 weeks)Noted December 21, 2025
Perl's decline was culturalby beatworm.co.uk on www.beatworm.co.uksoftware historyquick history of perl and other languagesNoted December 21, 2025
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Magantiby Lalit Maganti on lalitm.comcareers softwaregreat representation from non-product teamsNoted December 21, 2025
Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig | Sinclair Targetby sinclairtarget.com on sinclairtarget.comsoftwaregolang is on my listNoted December 21, 2025
Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language | WIREDby Sheon Han on www.wired.comruby softwareJesus who hurt you? picking on ruby is an odd take for WIREDNoted December 21, 2025
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to workby Simon Willison on simonwillison.netai programming softwaregenerating code alone is of no valueNoted December 21, 2025
Is AI about to expose just how mediocre most developers are? | Rob Bowleyby Rob on blog.robbowley.netai software careersan ode to mediocrityNoted December 5, 2025
The Trillion Dollar AI Software Development Stack | Andreessen Horowitzby Guido Appenzeller, Yoko Li on a16z.comai softwareai development stack - hint you still need developersNoted December 4, 2025
How good engineers write bad code at big companiesby sean goedecke on www.seangoedecke.comcareers softwareincentive structure rewards moving code bases - so every code base has 'new' engineers on itNoted December 3, 2025
https://leaddev.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/THE-AI-IMPACT-REPORT-2025-download__LDMO__.pdfby leaddev.comai softwarePDF report on ai impact by LeaddevNoted November 28, 2025
How Claude Code is built - by Gergely Oroszby Gergely Orosz on newsletter.pragmaticengineer.comai anthropic softwareclaude code improves PR throughput while growing team sizeNoted November 28, 2025
New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code | N’s Blogby https://nmn.gl on nmn.glai software[meme] old man yells at cloudsNoted November 28, 2025
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivityby Joel Becker, Nate Rush, Beth Barnes, David Rein on arxiv.orgai software productivity cursorone counter factual study in a sea of AI hypeNoted November 28, 2025
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting - The Atlanticby Rose Horowitch on www.theatlantic.comai careers softwareeconomic restructuring of the software engineering labor marketNoted November 28, 2025
Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering | Peter Steinbergerby Peter Steinberger on steipete.meai softwarea human's opinion on working with cli agentsNoted November 27, 2025
Build It Yourself | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writingsby Armin Ronacher on lucumr.pocoo.orgsoftware architecturehot take - node_modules was my first exposure to package bloatNoted November 27, 2025
Why engineers can't be rational about programming languages | spf13by Steve Francia on spf13.comperl architecture softwarelanguage by fiat is rarely the best decisionNoted November 24, 2025
Software 2.0. I sometimes see people refer to neural… | by Andrej Karpathy | Mediumby Andrej Karpathy on karpathy.medium.comai llm software predictionssome predictions on the future of software by inference (llm)Noted November 24, 2025
What Killed Perl?by kqr on entropicthoughts.comarchitecture perl softwarePERL cgi-bin and the early internetNoted November 24, 2025
Regulation Isn’t the European Trap — Resignation Is | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writingsby Armin Ronacher on lucumr.pocoo.orgculture softwareno doubt there is a culture difference between USA and EuropeNoted November 24, 2025
You're not Facebook. Why use their tools?by okayfail.com on okayfail.comarchitecture softwarebut [big tech] does it this way!Noted November 23, 2025
AI coding assistants aren’t really making devs feel more productive - LeadDevby Chantal Kapani on leaddev.comai productivity softwareAnother surveys showing modest ai productivity gains of <10%Noted November 23, 2025
Being an “Intrapreneur” as a software engineerby Gergely Orosz on newsletter.pragmaticengineer.comcareers softwarealways deliver - career advice from a google employeeNoted November 23, 2025
Twin Anxieties of the Engineer/Manager Pendulum – charity.wtfby mipsytipsy on charity.wtfsoftware careers managementsoftware career managementNoted November 23, 2025
The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 1by Gergely Orosz on newsletter.pragmaticengineer.comsoftwaredeveloper survey from pgramatic engineer - social proofNoted November 23, 2025
How AI Vibe Coding Is Destroying Junior Developers' Careersby finalroundai.com on www.finalroundai.comai softwareyou can't offload comprehension - understanding how your code works is still requiredNoted November 23, 2025
I built an MCP Server for Observability. This is my Unhyped Take | SigNozby SigNoz on signoz.ioai mcp softwareMCP severs - all token no resultsNoted November 23, 2025
[RFC 0/2] Add AI coding assistant configuration to Linux kernel - Sasha Levinby lore.kernel.org on lore.kernel.orgai softwareai co-develop guidance for linux kernelNoted November 23, 2025
The Pulse: Section 174 is reversed! Mostly, that isby Gergely Orosz on newsletter.pragmaticengineer.comeconomics software careerssection 174 and the ZIRP eraNoted November 23, 2025
an engineer's perspective on hiringby jyn on jyn.devmanagement softwarethoughts on hiring sweNoted November 23, 2025
No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productiveby colton.dev on colton.devai productivity softwarethis guy cooks - ai accelerates the mundane hits wall at scaleNoted November 23, 2025
Implications of the Rise in Custom Software Investmentsby Xian Jiang , Hannah Rubinton on www.stlouisfed.orgsoftware economicssoftware is still eating the worldNoted November 22, 2025