Articles about programming, software development and engineering
Programming
A frustrated developer's rant about AI hype, from executives who believe AGI is imminent to colleagues who claim to be 10x engineers thanks to prompt engineering, and the conformist culture that makes it impossible to push back.
Programming
This article walks through designing Go's scheduler from scratch, starting with the simplest implementation and progressively adding optimizations like work stealing, handoff, and preemption.
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The ratio of time spent reading versus writing code is 7 to 1. Unreadable code is technical debt that slows your team down and increases long-term development costs.
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An astrophysicist recounts two attempts to automate symbolic expression simplification in Lisp — first failing with pattern-matching in Scheme, then building a working library in Common Lisp through iterative decomposition and recomposition.
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A senior developer with 10 years of experience discovers that knowing frameworks isn't the same as understanding computation, after a single math problem exposes the difference between brute force and engineering thinking.
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A developer shares their journey of solving LeetCode problems daily for 600 consecutive days, covering skill progression, practical benefits, why they skip Hard problems, and advice for building a sustainable algorithm practice habit.
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Not all programming errors are the developer's fault — many are baked into the design of languages, frameworks, and tools that actively lead you into traps. A developer's case against blaming the programmer.
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A backend developer spent 9 months building a specialized chess engine in Rust for a niche Crazyhouse variant, achieving #1 rank before being banned for computer assistance.
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After a popular Habr article about an AI pretending to be an elderly man to waste scammers' time turned out to be hypothetical rather than real, one developer built the actual working system — and documented every technical problem along the way.
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A deep technical breakdown of Hysteria 2 — its QUIC foundation, the Brutal congestion algorithm, Salamander obfuscation, and port hopping — plus an honest account of where the protocol falls apart in 2026.
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You don't understand what you've done. You've launched a Laxian Key without having the off switch. A critical look at AI-driven development and vibe-coding culture.
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An AI agent was given a Linux server, a cron job firing every five minutes, and no tasks whatsoever — over 483 sessions it named itself, wrote poetry, modified its own system prompt, and eventually caused its own system failure.