Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people I spend a lot of time negotiating this in the software world: And if you're wondering why this happens, it's normally because: 1. people aren't talking to people 2. people aren't listening So lot...

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people - ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-...

"Delivering new code has dropped in price to almost free... but delivering good code remains significantly more expensive than that." - simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

Don't build your UI around resources, (e.g. a form to edit the configuration object), instead build them around user intents I want to publish this thing.

The Mighty Metaphor Set your audience free to think for themselves.

A solid post by Gregor Hohpe on the power of metaphors in technical conversions:

> "Because the metaphor shares the dynamics and constraints of the solution, your audience can reason in the metaphor and understand the decisions and trade-offs".

architectelevator.com/transformati...

"Everything you could want from a company - promotions, bonuses, internal respect - comes from shipping projects, not from [just] closing out tickets." www.seangoedecke.com/party-tricks/

Prakhar Gupta Software Engineer, LITM

Thinking about doing the thing is not doing the thing. Doing the thing is doing the thing. - www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/doing-t...

I'm addicted to being useful

"What actually does motivate software engineers is often more of an internal compulsion. If you’re in that category, then it’s worth figuring out how you can harness that compulsion most effectively." www.seangoedecke.com/addicted-to-...

If I change behaviour, I must change tests.

If I change behaviour, I must change tests.

If I change behaviour, I must change tests.

If I change behaviour, I must change tests.

Just Fucking Use React An opinionated guide on why and when to use React (or similar JavaScript frameworks) for modern web development, especially for complex, interactive applications. Challenges the 'pure HTML' narrative.

This might even be better: justfuckingusereact.com - I do enjoy a bit of Alpine.js here and there though

Huge fan of things like this and frankly I don’t disagree anymore: justfuckingusetailwind.com

I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...

I wish Shadow traffic testing was as cool as it sounds but excited to use it in an enterprise production environment soon!

Questions to ask when you think you need to finish something When a pursuit becomes a drag, here's some questions to help you figure out why, and what to do about it.

cassidoo.co/post/questio...

How I Use AI

Can you answer for the mistakes in your AI generated code? You should reap the rewards, and the blame. timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...

Don't animate height! Jim Fisher

Don't animate height!

Your Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time When managers and leaders don’t specify the expected time investment of an ask, the time that is invested is almost never what was intended.

Your Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time

“Discovery Coding” a great term for something I do a fair bit of. Sometimes you just need to ‘flail away at the goddamn thing’ to truly understand what you’re solving.

The UX on this Small Child Is Terrible Not only am I VP of Reproduction for this household, but I’ve also been the end-user of this Small Child for over three years now. I’m going to giv...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

What if the real skill isn’t technical mastery? notashelf.dev/posts/curse-...

One of the more interesting “firsts” of this year has been being a certain popular online collaboration tools first enterprise tier migration to a competitor. We used their service so much their export tooling just times out 🤷

Product management is broken. Engineers can fix it How we've redefined the PM and engineer relationship

Product management is broken. Engineers can fix it

Separation of concerns in a bug tracker

Developing engineering talent Learning how to support the learning of your teammates

Developing engineering talent - LeadDev

All code is technical debt As adding more code to a product will slow down development, we should view all code as technical debt.

“To ensure development doesn’t slowly grind to a halt, we need to ensure our code creates more value than debt.” Is all code tech debt?

Haystack The canvas-based IDE that makes navigation and refactoring 10x faster

Not a post but more an IDE specifically designed for code exploration: Haystack

When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky’s Lossy Timelines By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing…

When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines · Jaz's Blog

Crafting a software system can be challenging, but attempting it a second time might prove beneficial.

Code is always addressed to someone. As Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs puts it, “programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute”

So You Want to Turn Something Off? Retiring software systems is hard work. Here are some tools and techniques to make the process run smoothly

What a lovely problem to have, turning systems off -