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Why is there no light to be shed? This is a perfectly reasonable question to ask. And a straight simple answer might be that no, they didn't. Or not initially but later it was too …

What's the difference between "choosing pretty syntax over speed" and "start with syntax without considering speed"?

So they didn't focus actively on good error messages and fast compile times when designing a new language?

It's really hard for me to read past Lattner's quote. "Beautiful minimal syntax" vs "really bad compile times" and "awful error messages". I know it's not helpful to judge in hinds…

Great short read on a concept we can find in many places, including software engineering or even UX design in general.

Could you explain what you see in more detail? I don't quite understand what you mean and I'd like to fix it. Generally, scaling is based on the shorter edge of the frame. The edge…

This is a simple little website I've built for my kids. You can create images using squares of 5 different sizes only. Sizes are special of course, tickling the geometry brain. Lay…

The article asks a fair question. The comments here raise fair points. At the end though, all of this activity is nothing else than doing philosophy. Because what else would it be?…

I've been a software engineer (and recently manager) since 20+ years. I've been building products all this time, as an employee or contractor. I wonder what alternatives there are …

True, and this has real effects on jobs. There was a similar dynamic with translation market and Google Translate. It didn't matter that human translation was superior. What matter…

Thinking of a project where 1 person knows how to admin something with quite a bunch of Postman setups on their own computer. At least provide CLIs.

Great article, very true. "For some reason, corporate legibility tools often have poor UX for those who interact with them who are not administrators." That's because administrator…