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purplesyringa.moe

Grieving the loss of details

Over the course of a year, I went from having a planned future to worrying about applying for disability.

ssgoi.dev

Native page transitions on the web

Router-agnostic page transitions for React, Svelte, Vue, Solid, Angular, and Qwik.

liao.gg

Agents don’t need memory. They need documentation.

Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.

fglibs.com

F*cking good libraries

A browsable semantic library for creative development resources.

useblume.dev

Blume

The open-source docs framework for humans and agents. Drop Markdown into a folder and ship a fast docs site.

brookslybrand.com

Do frameworks matter anymore?

How abstractions constrain AI agents, helping engineering teams evaluate long-term web architecture choices.

2026.stateofdevs.com

State of Devs 2026

Nearly half of this year's survey respondents had experienced job insecurity and insufficient wages.

discourse.haskell.org

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

Afraid of loosing your job to someone with little programming skills, no aspirations to quality, and a huge Claude account?

aymannadeem.com

Plan mode is dead

Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.

flaviocopes.com

12 CSS features you can use today with no build step

Modern CSS features that replace Sass, PostCSS plugins and JavaScript hacks.

davekiss.com

A eulogy for the software engineer

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bury the software engineer.

cannoneyed.com

Isometric NYC

A giant isometric pixel-art map of New York City. And an excuse to push hard on the limits of the latest and greatest coding agents.

tonyward.dev

Code as the source of truth

With AI tooling, code being the source of truth just makes sense.

petdex.dev

Petdex

Open-source animated pets for coding agents. Browse pets, preview their animations, and install one with a single command.

addyosmani.com

Audit your agent files

A practical guide to auditing what your coding agent still needs.

martinfowler.com

Maybe we shouldn’t be reviewing all this code

Or, perhaps the problem isn’t that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we’ve been using code review to solve the wrong problems

yegge.ai

Seats and sunsets

Understanding agent orchestration economics, model capability thresholds, token burn rates, and structural failure modes.

sidebranch.dev

Sidebranch: worktree visual diffing

Review PRs from inside your running app: switch branches from an in-page widget and compare worktrees side by side.

earendil.com

If coding is solved, what now?

Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.

dontasktoask.com

Don’t ask to ask, just ask

If you're not willing to do the work to solve your problem, why should we?