Bits

🕑 Jul 11, 2025

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https://plainvanillaweb.com/index.html

Weiler's Law:
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

🕑 Jul 11, 2025

26

Plain Vanilla - an explainer for web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

🕑 Jul 10, 2025

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy

Writing Toy Software Is A Joy

Why you should write more toy programs

🕑 Jul 10, 2025

13

https://mertbulan.com/2025/06/26/why-i-dont-ride-the-ai-hype-train/

Why I don't ride the AI Hype Train

🕑 Jul 9, 2025

https://richardscollin.github.io/tmux-rs/

"You might be asking: why did you rewrite tmux in Rust? And yeah, I don’t really have a good reason. It’s a hobby project. Like gardening, but with more segfaults."

🕑 Jul 8, 2025

10

I have a simple rule in life: If I don't understand something, it must be bad.

-- Linus Torvalds

📁 Quotes

🕑 Jul 6, 2025

14

https://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck

Writing code was never the bottleneck

🕑 May 21, 2025

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-convenience-kills-curiosity/

How convenience kills curiosity

"[...] Those friction-filled experiences are nearly extinct now. We’ve optimized them away in the name of convenience, and something important has been lost in the transition."

🕑 May 21, 2025

26

Debugging time increases as a square of the program’s size.

-- Chris Wenham

🕑 May 20, 2025

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/product-pseudoscience/

Product Pseudoscience

🕑 May 20, 2025

49

1

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

-- David Parnas

📁 Quotes

🕑 Dec 17, 2024

Write a paper promising salvation, make it a 'structured' something or a 'virtual' something, or 'abstract', 'distributed' or 'higher-order' or 'applicative' and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

🕑 May 17, 2025

20

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The problem is that coding isn’t fun if all you can do is call things out of a library, if you can’t write the library yourself.

-- Donald Knuth

🕑 Apr 28, 2025

24

I’ll throw away code as soon I want to add something to it and I get the feeling that what I have to do to add it is too hard.

-- Ken Thompson

🕑 Apr 27, 2025

17

https://minds.md/zakirullin/cognitive

Cognitive load is what matters

🕑 Apr 25, 2025

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)

🕑 Apr 25, 2025

48

One of the greatest joys in computer programming is discovering a new, faster, more efficient algorithm for doing something — particularly if a lot of well-respected people have come up with worse solutions.

-- Danny Hillis

🕑 Apr 24, 2025

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/bet-on-systems-not-sparks/

Bet on systems, not sparks

🕑 Apr 24, 2025

12

The efficiency of the code decreases with an increase in the number of people working on the program. The most efficient programs are written by a single person.

-- Charles Simonyi

🕑 Mar 3, 2025

23

The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers.

-- Fred Brooks

🕑 Feb 26, 2025

https://github.com/MichiganTypeScript/typescript-types-only-wasm-runtime

A TypeScript-types-only WebAssembly runtime

"This engine was built to service a project that aimed to demonstrate why Doom can't run in TypeScript types. Well. The funny thing is.. It can."

🕑 Feb 26, 2025

12

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

🕑 Feb 25, 2025

https://twomorecents.org/writing-regex-engine/index.html

Writing a regular expression engine

🕑 Feb 20, 2025

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/examples-of-great-urls/

Examples of great URL design

🕑 Feb 19, 2025

22

Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

-- Chris Sacca

🕑 Feb 17, 2025

https://dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software/

Cold-blooded software

🕑 Feb 17, 2025

68

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.

-- David Leinweber

🕑 Feb 16, 2025

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https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that."

🕑 Feb 15, 2025

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.

-- Eric S. Raymond

🕑 Feb 14, 2025

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2024/06/03/youll-regret-using-natural-keys/

You'll regret using natural keys

🕑 Feb 14, 2025

Communication must be stateless in nature, such that each request from client to server must contain all of the information necessary to understand the request, and cannot take advantage of any stored context on the server.

-- Roy Fielding

🕑 Feb 13, 2025

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There are many terrible mistakes to make in program design, so go ahead and make them so that you understand them better.

-- Marijn Haverbeke

🕑 Feb 12, 2025

25

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Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

-- Fred Brooks

🕑 Feb 11, 2025

11

https://rubenerd.com/boring-tech-is-mature-not-old/

Boring tech is mature, not old

🕑 Feb 11, 2025

28

A framework can provide 90% of the features we need quickly - giving us a false sense of confidence early in the development cycle - and then be frustratingly hard when it comes to implementing the last 10%.

-- Tony Parisi

🕑 Feb 10, 2025

68

Premature abstraction is as bad as premature optimization.

-- Luciano Ramalho

🕑 Feb 8, 2025

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I've never been a lover of existing code. Code by itself almost rots and it’s gotta be rewritten. Even when nothing has changed, for some reason it rots.

-- Ken Thompson

🕑 Feb 7, 2025

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Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

-- Niklaus Wirth

🕑 Feb 6, 2025

The real problem with throwaway code comes when it isn't thrown away.

-- Joseph Yoder

🕑 Feb 5, 2025

Program designers have a tendency to think of the users as idiots who need to be controlled. They should rather think of their program as a servant, whose master, the user, should be able to control it.

-- John McCarthy

🕑 Feb 4, 2025

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The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.

-- Jeff Hammerbacher

🕑 Feb 3, 2025

https://irreducible.io/blog/my-wasm-interpreter/

Writing a Wasm interpreter in C

🕑 Feb 3, 2025

24

Coding is "90 percent finished" for half of the total coding time. Debugging is "99 percent complete" most of the time.

-- Fred Brooks

🕑 Feb 2, 2025

http://yosemitesam.ch/3-tools-for-2025/

Tools for 2025

📁 Links 📁 Linux

🕑 Feb 2, 2025

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

-- Douglas Crockford

🕑 Feb 1, 2025

https://linus.coffee/note/software-industry/

Thoughts on the software industry

🕑 Feb 1, 2025

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What is programming? Some people call it a science, some people call it an art, some people call it a skill. I think it has aspects of all three.

-- Charles Simonyi

🕑 Jan 31, 2025

https://jimmyhmiller.github.io/ugliest-beautiful-codebase

"We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase

🕑 Jan 31, 2025

23

A skilled programmer is like a poet who can put into words those ideas that others find inexpressible.

-- Danny Hillis

🕑 Jan 30, 2025

12

One man's error is another man's data.

🕑 Jan 30, 2025

10

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In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

-- Butler Lampson

🕑 Jan 29, 2025

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Be humble, communicate clearly, and respect others. It costs nothing to be kind, but the impact is priceless.

-- Addy Osmani

📁 Quotes

🕑 Jan 28, 2025

69

A few months of writing code can save you a few hours in design.

🕑 Jan 28, 2025

I’ve got this need to program. I wake up in the morning with sentences of a literate program. Before breakfast -- I’m sure poets must feel this -- I have to go to the computer and write this paragraph and then I can eat and I’m happy.

-- Donald Knuth

🕑 Jan 28, 2025

https://nemo.foo/blog/day-4-of-an-afternoon-project

My afternoon project turned into four days of AI lies, USB chaos, and hard lessons

🕑 Jan 27, 2025