Visual guides for developers

Also why universal healthcare matters. Gotta maintain all parts of a system!

via: https://mit.edu/6.1800/www/readings/01-wrong.shtml

The first reason, then, that we care about low-level is that it allows us to make better choices. We can make better software by starting in the right place, with the right frame and the right stack. Low-level programming allows us to build trucks instead of Trucklas.

I love Ben’s work, but he has a bad habit of not giving credit where it’s due, and makes him come off as smug in his writing. Yes, I too care about performance in apps. But this should not be the sole decision-maker when picking the technology stack.

I don’t mind the ways in which my job is dysfunctional, because it matches the ways in which I myself am dysfunctional: specifically, my addiction to being useful.

Talk from the Roguelike Celebration 2018

Very nice software architecture talk. Patterns discussed: composition over inheritance, type objects, commands/actions.

How we handle 92 million compilations a year without everything catching fire

Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving …

The thing that would actually help an underperformer improve is to teach or (even better) show them how to do a better job and the same is true for models.

Blog posts, talks, and essays that changed how people think about dependency management.

My engine supports detailed changes to world geometry - adding and removing matter both smoothly or with sharp edges. It also supports non-destructive changes like moving a hole around, or creating a tunnel and walking through it - and then seeing it disappear behind you. I’m excited about these non-destructive changes in particular as they enable a lot of interesting gameplay mechanics.

Very impressive!

Vanilla teleporters in Minecraft. Nice.

Google Android’s calculator is (probably) the most widely used calculator in the world. It’s also the most advanced.

A comprehensive collection of Agent Skills for context engineering, multi-agent architectures, and production agent systems. Use when building, optimizing, or debugging agent systems that require effective context management. - Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering/skills/project-development at main · muratcankoylan/Agent-Skills-for-Context-Engineering

This skill covers the methodology for identifying tasks suited to LLM processing, designing effective project architectures, and iterating rapidly using agent-assisted development. The principles apply whether building batch processing pipelines, multi-agent research systems, or interactive applications.