Drag to turn the sky · scroll or pinch to move · choose any star to go there
Turning on the stars…
Topic · Software
Engineering opinions
208 links saved from 2007 to 2026; 202 with a note, 99 in a Weekly Thing.
- Most from
- daringfireball.net 7, medium.com 7, arstechnica.com 4, theverge.com 4, bloomberg.com 3
2026
2025
- Capacities – A studio for your mind
- Google Antigravity
- Pikaday
- If it cites em dashes as proof, it came from a tool. § Scott Smitelli
- It's The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
- Atkinson Dithering
- IntelTechniques Data Removal Workbook
- It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
- Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN - ABC News
- Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim
2024
- Lighthouse - Inbox Zero for RSS Feeds
- Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
- Daring Fireball: Vision Pro Bites Dog
- Surely Microsoft Isn’t Blaming EU for Its Problems?
- It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time. - Marc's Blog
- Undersea cable failures cause Internet disruptions for multiple African countries
- List of 2024 Leap Day Bugs
- Death, Lonely Death
- Customer satisfaction and tipping
2023
- Welcome to Metric-time.com
- Bots, Spiders, and Crawlers: The Results
- The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity
- The invisible problem
- s32 unix clock
- The Bookmarking Data Model Is Wrong For Highlighting
- I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
- Remembering Alex Hay, the Maker of Toolbox Pro, During Automation April
- Discord, or the Death of Lore « ASCII by Jason Scott
- The Plan for Twitter
- Cal.com | Open Scheduling Infrastructure
- A small mistake does not a complex systems failure make
2022
- Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Onsale Explained
- Just Don’t
- After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.
- txt.fyi
- 😵💫 Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
- Terra: To the Moon and Back
- Precision In Technical Discussions
- Trailing Slashes on URLs: Contentious or Settled?—zachleat.com
2021
- The unbearable fussiness of the smart home
- ummm — organize your thoughts
- Michael Tsai - Blog - iOS 15 Shortcuts and SwiftUI
- Uber's Crazy YOLO App Rewrite, From the Front Seat
- What is the OSI model?
- Johnny•Decimal
- The cataclysmic breakdown of networked systems
- Bring Your Own Client
- Why webcams aren’t good enough
2020
- Chrome is Bad
- Kinesis Outage
- Shopping is not the same as buying
- world smallest office suite
- Frank Chimero · App Sprawl
- Please stop using this UPSERT anti-pattern
- Notion encourages busy-work and I’m tired of it - diesdas.direct
- Our Government Runs on a 60-Year-Old Coding Language, and Now It’s Falling Apart
- Amazon Prime delivery delays are now as long as a month
- JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
2019
- Your Makefiles are wrong · Jacob Davis-Hansson
- ★ L’Affaire Vaperware —Daring Fireball
- File systems unfit as distributed storage backends: lessons from ten years of Ceph evolution
- XML is almost always misused
- Deploy on Fridays, or Don't. - By Dave Mangot
- Daring Fireball: Richard Stallman’s Disgrace
- Michael Tsai - Blog - Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site
- Meet the new Dropbox
- Cardbox • The first place to connect
- How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer
- Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders
- Why did the PGP Web of Trust fail? – Henry Story
- Ditching Medium | JJ's JavaScript Blog
2018
- Timing 2018.4: Calendar Integration, "Weekend Mode", Project Colors, and More! — Timing Time Management Blog
- Diversity and inclusion update: The journey continues
- Stop building websites with infinite scroll!
- About static site generators
- No More Google
- The easiest way to keep your web apps accessible: Just use text
- Everything Goes in a Context Bucket
- The Bullshit Web
- 500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under Creative Commons
- Why you should not use Google Cloud. – Punch a Server
- Intel and the Danger of Integration
- An Invisible Rating System At Your Favorite Chain Restaurant Is Costing Your Server
- Doc Searls Weblog · What’s wrong with bots is they’re not ours
- Daring Fireball: 10 Strikes and You’re Out — the iOS Feature You’re Probably Not Using But Should
- txt.fyi
- Troubleshooting kernel crashes under pressure
- It's a crash. Not an accident.
- xkcd: Background Apps
- IBM Java CTO: Devs shouldn't have to learn Docker, K8s, 30 other things to deploy an app
- Hyrum's Law
- Bringing the power of AMP to Gmail
- How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software
2017
- Computer latency: 1977-2017
- Millennials Are Screwed
- Announcing Alexa for Business: Using Amazon Alexa’s Voice Enabled Devices for Workplaces
- Entering the Quantum Era—How Firefox got fast again and where it’s going to get faster – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
- Super Mario Run’s 200 million downloads didn’t result in ‘acceptable profit’ for Nintendo
- The Ethical Minefields of Technology
- Replacing our search with Algolia
- Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation
- Daring Fireball: Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS
- Twist - Mindful Team Communication
- Diversity in Open Source Is Even Worse Than in Tech Overall
- Monica - a CRM for your friends and family
- The story of RSS-in-JSON —Scripting News
- Enough with the microservices | Adam Drake
- Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications
- Serial Killers Should Fear This Algorithm
2016
- Deep-Fried Data
- The Force Quit Fallacy
- Why I Finally Ditched JIRA
- How (and Why) I Switched from JIRA to Clubhouse
- Your E-mail Font Is Ruining Your Life
- Serverlessness
- Multitasking Is Rubbish
- My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT
- BBC - Future - These unlucky people have names that break computers
- The One List You Must Have (but I hope you’ll never use)
- Is Your Computer Stable?
- The IPv6 Numeric IP Format is a Serious Usability Problem
- Oracle deprecates the Java browser plugin, prepares for its demise
- Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story
2015
- Why hourly time tracking doesn't work for software
- State of On-Call 2015
- Building for HTTP/2
- HipChat service issues
- Haunted By Data
- Hello Future Pastebin Readers — The Message
- The Verge's web sucks
- The Anti-Mac User Interface (Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen)
- inessential: Love
- Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of “Spaghetti” Code
- Adactio: Journal—Web! What is it good for?
- 7 Common Web Form Design Mistakes to Avoid
- Chrome starts pushing Java off the Web by disabling plugins
- You're not going to do Microservices
- 0x74696d | Analytics on the Cheap
- How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled Kim Kardashian’s back-end (SFW) — The Message
- 2015 is getting an extra second and that's a bit of a problem for the internet
2014
2013
- The Lords of Vendorbation
- Rethinking Ray Ozzie
- Google Reader Died Because No One Would Run It
- Samsung and Jay-Z give the Internet a masters class in how not to make an app
- Web developer money
- Extension default namespaces
- Stringer
- Please, stay away from rebase
- All The Webcams
- Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance
- Body By Victoria - The Hacker Factor Blog
2012
- Bug 1055766 grep -R doesn't automatically search amazon
- Dont Change Your Hair For Me
- PHP Addiction
- Recent Bounciness And When It Will Stop (Pinboard Blog)
- CIOs Beware: New Macbook Pro Could Drive More Bandwidth Use
- Not as SPDY as You Thought
- Fear and Loathing and Windows 8
- All Presentation Software is Broken
2011
- The Big Data Conundrum
- Short Amazon Web Services Outage Takes Down Netflix, Others
- The HP TouchPad 1.0
- DocumentSnap
- Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA
- Ask E.T.: Windows Phone 7 Series (WP7S)
- BlackBerry PlayBook by Philip Greenspun
- The Email Game Wants to Make Achieving Inbox Zero Fun
- Apple files patent for graphics-based contact management
- Nintendo to Hobbyist Developers: No Thanks
- Plain Text Persists
- Project Code Rush
- Experienced Web Users Don’t Generate Ad Revenue
2010
2009
- Google Has Become A Vast Repository Of Keyword SPAM
- Apple no longer pursuing ZFS as the next generation file system for OS X
- Speaking of Regrets
- URL Shortener tr.im to Discontinue Service
- Amazon Flushes Kindle Editions of Orwell Books Down the Memory Hole
- More Usable URLs: Twitter.com
- Spootnik
- System Outages Explained
- “By installing Java, you will be able to experience the power of Java”
2008
- IPhone 2.1 SDK Disappointments
- Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008
- Google App Engine Goes Down and Stays Down
- This Is A Mistake
- Goodbye Litespeed, hello Nginx, says Wordpress.com « Blue Screen Of Duds
- Architecture astronauts take over
- Ubuntu Server Upgrade to 8.04 Hardy Heron
- Windows XP and the importance of listening to customers
- Chinese official on SMS voting: txtng votes ripe 4 abuse
- Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1 prerequisite update
- Ask 37signals: Why did you restart Highrise?
- Zed Shaw Puts The Smack Down On The Rails Community