The one skill that separates senior engineers from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.Retry

After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison.

Google's new Antigravity IDE spurred much developer debate focusing heavily on its apparent status as a Visual Studio Code fork, with developers debating why another fork is needed, what it means for the VS Code ecosystem, and how open source reuse, lock…

When two of the most influential people in AI both say that today’s large language models are hitting their limits , it’s worth paying attention. In a recent long-form interview, Ilya Sutskever – co-founder of OpenAI and now head of Safe Superintelligence…

There’s no issue with abstracting code into a helper function. If we want to optimize for cognitive load, the intent should be as clear as possible, starting with the name.

Gravitino solves the data fragmentation crisis. Why a vendor-neutral, federated metadata control plane is the only path to AI-Native…

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Counting years backwards unlocks faster speed. The first date algorithm to use only 4 multiplications, instead of 7+

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI will make coding accessible to everyone, but engineers warn that vibe coding still struggles with reliability, complexity, and real-world software demands.

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Imgur started blocking UK users. Rather than installing a VPN on every device, I set up a network-wide proxy that tunnels Imgur traffic through a VPN automatically.

What Developers Want? (Spoiler: Not Pizza Parties) Let’s be honest: If one more company brags about their PlayStation, ping-pong table, and weekly pizza parties as ‘culture,’ I might lose it …

How do we avoid writing spaghetti code so our systems don't turn into a hot mess? For me, it's focusing on coupling and cohesion.

Interruptions, recovery time, and task size: three numbers that determine if you'll get real work done. Interactive visualizations show the math behind bad days.

Explore key developer trends: developer population growth, rising languages like Rust, and booming sectors like embedded and visual tools.

Why do compilers love xor-ing registers so much?

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

Using ULID identifiers in Go programs running on Postgres database.

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A review of Clean Code Second Edition (2024). The core style remains unchanged: tiny functions, parameters as class state, no comments.