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Productivity / Career / Business

Do not apologize for replying late to my email (ploum.net)
77 pts 30 comments by kmaasrud Feb 11, 2026 emailpractices Productivity / Career / BusinessInternet / Digital Culture
Modular Monolith and Microservices: Modularity is what truly matters (2023) (binaryigor.com)
4 pts 1 comments by BinaryIgor Feb 11, 2026 scaling Data / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business
Hope Is Not a Security Strategy: Why Secure-by-Default Beats Hardening (tuananh.net)
8 pts 0 comments by tuananh Feb 11, 2026 vibecoding AI / Machine LearningSecurity / PrivacyProductivity / Career / Business
Using an engineering notebook (ntietz.com)
11 pts 2 comments by carlana Feb 10, 2026 practices Productivity / Career / Business
SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right (2023) (blogsystem5.substack.com)
15 pts 12 comments by Qyriad Feb 10, 2026 practices Productivity / Career / Business
A few design decisions for a new chat platform (sporks.space)
46 pts 47 comments by calvin Feb 10, 2026 distributedpractices Data / Databases / InfrastructureDesign / UX / VisualizationProductivity / Career / Business
Implementing custom error types in Rust + Axum (rup12.net)
4 pts 0 comments by ruptwelve Feb 9, 2026 practicesrust Systems / Low-Level / OSProductivity / Career / Business
bankster: Money as data (github.com)
2 pts 0 comments by veqq Feb 9, 2026 clojurefinance Programming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business
AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it (siddhantkhare.com)
27 pts 16 comments by freddyb Feb 8, 2026 practicesvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProductivity / Career / Business
Testing can be fun, actually (giacomocavalieri.me)
36 pts 49 comments by bugsmith Feb 8, 2026 gleampracticestesting Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business
Software Engineering is back (blog.alaindichiappari.dev)
5 pts 4 comments by nbardiuk Feb 8, 2026 practicesvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General)Productivity / Career / Business
Circumstantial Complexity, LLMs and Large Scale Architecture (datagubbe.se)
1 pts 0 comments by facundoolano Feb 8, 2026 practicesvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business
Large tech companies don't need heroes (seangoedecke.com)
4 pts 4 comments by xSavitar Feb 8, 2026 philosophypractices Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
vouch: a contributor trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate (github.com)
60 pts 28 comments by lffg Feb 7, 2026 practices Productivity / Career / Business
Your Best Thinking Is Wasted on the Wrong Decisions (iankduncan.com)
16 pts 5 comments by iand675 Feb 7, 2026 practices Productivity / Career / Business
Tactical tornado is the new default (olano.dev)
64 pts 10 comments by facundoolano Feb 6, 2026 practicesvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProductivity / Career / Business
No, Really, Bash Is Not Enough: Why Large-Scale CI Needs an Orchestrator (iankduncan.com)
46 pts 60 comments by iand675 Feb 6, 2026 practices Productivity / Career / Business
The Search for Meaning Through Collaboration and Code (clojurecivitas.github.io)
2 pts 0 comments by veqq Feb 5, 2026 philosophypractices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team (iankduncan.com)
158 pts 82 comments by iand675 Feb 5, 2026 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business
Owning a $5M data center (blog.comma.ai)
61 pts 5 comments by hoistbypetard Feb 5, 2026 hardwarepractices Maker / DIY / HardwareProductivity / Career / Business
Getting the main thing right (seangoedecke.com)
8 pts 1 comments by lalitm Feb 5, 2026 practices Productivity / Career / Business
Wirth's Revenge (jmoiron.net)
25 pts 0 comments by carlana Feb 4, 2026 performancepracticesvibecoding AI / Machine LearningData / Databases / InfrastructureProductivity / Career / Business
How not to program in Dyalog APL (toolofthought.com)
5 pts 4 comments by vlnn Feb 4, 2026 aplpractices Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business
One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly (2022) (rachelbythebay.com)
48 pts 22 comments by veqq Feb 3, 2026 historicalscaling Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
You have to know how to drive the car (seangoedecke.com)
3 pts 1 comments by aatango Feb 2, 2026 culturepractices Productivity / Career / BusinessCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading
The Disconnected Git Workflow (ploum.net)
54 pts 5 comments by ploum Feb 2, 2026 vcs Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business
Forget technical debt (ufried.com)
31 pts 14 comments by BinaryIgor Feb 1, 2026 practices Productivity / Career / Business
Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution (arxiv.org)
22 pts 2 comments by typesanitizer Feb 1, 2026 pdfprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business
The imminent risk of vibe coding (basta.substack.com)
16 pts 3 comments by michaelgr Jan 30, 2026 practicesvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General)Productivity / Career / Business
Community Considerations Around AI Contributions (blog.scientific-python.org)
4 pts 0 comments by ngoldbaum Jan 30, 2026 practicesvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProductivity / Career / Business