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29 from 11 Sep 2023 to 7 May 2026
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2026 3

  1. Tokenmaxxing, Promomaxxing, and Misaligned Incentives in Tech
  2. What every dev should know about AI sandboxes
  3. Diving into Claude Code's Source Code Leak

2025 4

  1. Everyone is a Staff Engineer Now
  2. How to Write "Garbage Code" (by Linus Torvalds)
  3. How Cursor Indexes Codebases Fast
  4. Metric-Driven Development and The Claude Effect

2024 7

  1. 5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About
  2. How Fireship became YouTube's favorite programmer
  3. The Boolean Trap
  4. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships
  5. 4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way
  6. Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development
  7. How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

2023 15

  1. A simple programming productivity trick: leave work unfinished to reach flow
  2. How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
  3. Clever code is probably the worst code you could write
  4. How one line of code caused a $60 million loss
  5. The most valuable trait of great software engineers
  6. Meta's serverless platform processes trillions of function calls a day
  7. How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps
  8. How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away From a Monolith
  9. How Google writes clean, maintainable code
  10. How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers
  11. 10 lessons from successful one-person startups
  12. How Facebook served billions of requests per second Using Memcached
  13. 4 lessons from small teams that ship fast
  14. How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
  15. 7 simple habits of the best engineers I know