Nick | TheGoodParts.dev

A few months of writing code can save you a few hours in design.

Very underappreciated fact.

My colleague Julius ploum.net/2024-12-23-j... #programming #softwaredevelopment #ai #blog

A C Compiler in 512 bytes xorvoid.com/sectorc.html #programming #softwaredevelopment #assembly

Craft software that makes people feel something rapha.land/craft-softwa... #programming #softwaredevelopment #blog

Do the simplest thing that could possibly work www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest... #programming #softwaredevelopment #simplicity #blog

A reminder: Google is absolutely notorious for freezing accounts with zero warning, zero explanation and zero recourse. Even if you are paying them. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4544...

I hate screenshots of text parkscomputing.com/page/i-hate-... #programming #softwaredevelopment #blog

The level at which western companies are outsourcing tech jobs to offshore is insane. Despite what the media says, this is the reason for layoffs, not AI.

Stochastic parrot - user confidentiality.

On the foolishness of "natural language programming" - Edsger W. Dijkstra, 1978 (still very relevant now, possibly more than ever) www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr... #programming #softwaredevelopment

Why is Zig so cool? nilostolte.github.io/tech/article... #programming #softwaredevelopment #blog

How to write blog posts that developers read refactoringenglish.com/chapters/wri... #programming #softwaredevelopment #blog

You can use `timeout` to limit a command's runtime: ``` timeout 10s ping example.com ``` After 10s, the command will be killed automatically. #linux #unix #cli #shell #tips

Unexpected benefits of building your own tools tiniuc.com/make-more-to... #programming #softwaredevelopment #scripting #blog

Guys, you missed a few.

Ironically, people fled Twitter to come to this place, and now they are turning it into another Twitter.

wthhyb.sacha.house > Maybe Redis for caching The author definitely has a point when it comes to overengineering, but putting Redis here, and the amount of bloat on this simple page makes it quite ironic. #programming #webdev #backend #frontend

Ruby and its neighbors: Smalltalk noelrappin.com/blog/2025/11... #programming #smalltalk #ruby #blog

On in just under 2 hours :)

Every piece of software is a state machine. Any mutable variable adds a staggering number of states to that machine. old.reddit.com/r/programmin... #programming #softwaredevelopment #functionalprogramming

Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea rameerez.com/send-this-ar... #cloud #hosting #selfhosting #linux #blog

"A Plea for Lean Software" by Prof. Niklaus Wirth (1995) liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/88032.html #programming #softwaredevelopment #simplicity

Got my package today! A brand new (in 1991) in box, Soviet RPN programmable calculator MK-61. 105 bytes to enter a program, 4 registers of stack, 15 memory slots for variables. I learned to code on a calculator like this one.

Card Driven Development (CDD) jimmyhmiller.com/card-driven-... #programming #softwaredevelopment #productivity #blog

At the end you use `git bisect` (this is especially useful in messy codebases with no test coverage) kevin3010.github.io/git/2025/11/... #programming #git #blog #algorithms

URLs are state containers alfy.blog/2025/10/31/y... #programming #webdev #blog

(Quite) A few words about async yoric.github.io/post/quite-a... #programming #concurrency #python #go #rust #javascript #blog

Taking learning seriously dubroy.com/blog/taking-... #programming #productivity #blog

did you use chatGPT to interpret this tweet for you?

Good times, when Bluesky was a closed beta with under 10K users. I don't think it's a good idea these days.

This makes me feel old. Do people these days really find the existence of these APIs surprising? christianheilmann.com/2025/10/08/a...

Machine code isn't scary jimmyhmiller.com/machine-code... #programming #softwaredevelopment #blog #assembly

He is lying. It's not his haul.

This is a recipe for disaster. The same kind of disaster that people fled to come to this place.

This is a recipe for disaster. The same kind of disaster that people fled to come to this place.

Everything I know about good API design www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-des... #programming #softwaredesign #api #blog

blessed are the couch-fuckers for they shall find all the spare change

Making USB devices - end to end guide to your first gadget popovicu.com/posts/making... #programming #hardware #linux #blog

Why self-taught engineers often outperform michaelbastos.com/blog/why-sel... #programming #softwaredevelopment #tech #blog

Build your own database www.nan.fyi/database #programming #databases #javascript #blog

It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts blog.pabloecortez.com/its-insultin... #tech #genai #ai #blog

Modern Linux tools ikrima.dev/dev-notes/li... #linux #cli #shell #tools

If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work. -- Ravera's observation on premature optimization

When designing software systems, do the simplest thing that could possibly work. www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest... #programming #softwaredevelopment #productivity #blog

up - the Ultimate Plumber (a tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively, with instant live preview of command results) github.com/akavel/up #linux #cli #tools #shell #unix

October sky

/dev/null is web scale jyu.dev/blog/why-dev... #programming #databases #blog

LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-codin... #ai #genai #llm #programming

Debian 13 is out: www.debian.org/News/2025/20... I've been using Debian as my main OS both on servers and desktops for over 20 years now. It's one of the very rare things in this world that has stayed consistently good throughout all those years.

There is no secret herbal medicine that prevents all disease sitting out in the open if you just follow the right Facebook groups. There is no AI coding revolution available if you just start vibing. You are not missing anything. Trust yourself. You are enough. colton.dev/blog/curing-...