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We Put Flock Under Surveillance: Go Make Them Behave Differently [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W420BOqga_s Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46275328 Points: 40 Comments: 6...
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The Subtle Sign You're Growing as a Coder
You Know You're Growing When… - You don’t get stuck on compilation errors for missing semicolons. - You’re not rushing to code without doing some planning. - Y...
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Rethinking Software Engineering: Why It Has Failed at Maintainability
I have a strong opinion about the current state of software engineering for building maintainable applications: it has failed, and it's time to change. Not to t...
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I Needed a Simple Link Preview API for a Chat App, So I Built One
Lessons learned from building a minimal, predictable URL preview API We’re building a platform that connects pet parents with pet care service providers. A real...
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Surface Tension of Software
Article URL: https://iamstelios.com/blog/surface-tension-of-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46261739 Points: 41 Comments: 11...
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Linux Without Fanboyism: An Honest Developer’s Perspective
Introduction As a software engineer, I try not to get too attached to a single operating system. Computers are just tools we use to get the job done, and unles...
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I made a small, super fast code editor in C for Windows
!Cover image for I made a small, super fast code editor in C for Windowshttps://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=...
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What is a build system, anyway?
big picture At a high level, build systems are tools or libraries that provide a way to define and execute a series of transformations from input data to outpu...
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The Coming Need for Formal Specification
Article URL: https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/12/The-Coming-Need-for-Formal-Specification/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46251667 Po...
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Why Design Patterns?
It’s important to understand that Design Patterns were never meant to be hacked‑together shortcuts to be applied in a haphazard, “one‑size‑fits‑all” manner to y...
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DEV Track Spotlight: AI Native Development - Strategies and Impact across Amazon and AWS (DEV323)
Quick show of hands. Who here has tried to scale AI adoption across a large organization and found it much harder than the blog posts make it sound? This openin...
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Interface is everything, and everything is an interface
Ryan talks with Wesley Yu, head of engineering at Metalab, about the evolution of interfaces in technology, the pressure generating UI on the fly would put on y...