Links tagged “opinion”
77 links, newest first.
bitecode.dev
The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes: Europe has become dangerously dependent on American technology infrastructure, from cloud services and SaaS platforms to operating systems and chips.
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
tomtunguz.com
The Rise of the Agent Manager: author explores how individuals handle (or struggle) managing multiple AI agents
martinfowler.com
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fireborn.mataroa.blog
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cutlefish.substack.com
An argument that teams should extract the principles behind how companies like Basecamp or Intercom work, rather than copying their practices wholesale.
benbrostoff.github.io
Habits for surviving multi-month projects — staying optimistic, logging daily progress, trusting compound gains and protecting dedicated time.
r.32k.io
Thirteen one-line engineering principles — don't be clever, code is a liability, make it correct before you make it fast.
blogs.msdn.microsoft.com
Argues that source code is a cost to be minimised rather than an asset to accumulate, since every line carries ongoing maintenance debt.
meyerweb.com
Argues that universal HTTPS broke the caching proxies that kept the web usable on slow satellite links, cutting off users in low-bandwidth regions.
multithreaded.stitchfix.com
Argues that data scientists should own their own ETL and production code end to end, with platform engineers building the abstractions that make that autonomy possible.
qz.com
Argues that programming is solitary, concentration-heavy work that open floor plans wreck, contrasting Stack Overflow and Fog Creek with Facebook's campus.
georgestocker.com
Inventory of what wrecks a programmer's focus — open floor plans, interruptions, notifications, stress — paired with the countermeasures a developer can apply alone.
