Links tagged “design”
69 links, newest first.
github.com
one of Rust's 2026 language-design goals, from the source.
newsletter.kentbeck.com
Kent Beck: the point was never the typing, it was keeping options open and moving cost later in time.
nega.tv
The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring - how a AAA fakes its enemy "AI" with simple tricks and no ML in sight.
grantslatton.com
Writing a good design document
theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com
Assumptions: software, despite being a fixed set of instructions at its core, evolves due to human assumptions about functionality that often change over time
specstory.com
As a last minute addition, I’d like to start this first (pilot?) issue with an essay about the paradigm changes in software development by Greg Ceccarelli. Yes coding agents are bringing the cost of writing code very near to nothing, something that was very expensive until now. This is only the beginning, and I’m very excited about the changes it brings to our work, but also about the “idealistic” parts that become the new normal. More on this in the coming weeks.
stripe.com
How Stripe reworked its payment abstractions over ten years, from card tokens through the Sources API to PaymentIntents and PaymentMethods, and what each redesign cost.
skillachie.com
How exchange-to-exchange bindings route messages between RabbitMQ exchanges, and where they beat binding straight to a queue.
vorpus.org
Argues that go statements wreck control flow the way goto did, and proposes the nursery — a scope that cannot exit until its child tasks have finished.
github.com
Free, open-source admin dashboard template built on Bootstrap 4, with responsive pages and UI components for back-office interfaces.
htdp.org
Full text of the HtDP textbook, which teaches systematic program design through a step-by-step design recipe, using Racket.
