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jagilley.github.io

I quit my FAANG job because it’ll be automated by the end of 2025

Taking a medium-term look at the market dynamics, I’m now convinced that my former job will be obsolete by the end of the year.

ghuntley.com

Dear student: AI is here, you’re screwed unless you take action

Two weeks ago a student anonymously emailed Geoffrey Huntley asking for advice. This is his reply.

cloudfour.com

Why I like designing in the browser

Most design tools only approximate how the end result will look and feel.

alexp.pl

Vibe coding

Seems like programmers are terrified, but not necessarily because of AI potentially taking our jobs.

danieldelaney.net

Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

You don’t want to have a conversation with your computer, you want to build. Right?

anchor-tool.com

Anchor position tool

A tool for exploring the different values for positioning an element within a grid.

oddbird.net

Reimagining fluid typography

For many years, it has been ‘best practice’ to use relative units (especially em and rem) for sizing text. But are we responding to the right inputs?

patrickbrosset.com

Navigating the web platform cheatsheet

Keep track of what you can use, what's new in web browsers, and ways you can influence the development of the platform.

reactiive.io

Checkbox interactions: the beauty of layout animations

A practical example of how layout transitions can create complex animations with minimal code.

qntm.org

Developer philosophy

Avoid, at all costs, arriving at a scenario where the ground-up rewrite starts to look attractive.

oreilly.com

The end of programming as we know it

There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. Tim O’Reilly doesn't buy it.

ghuntley.com

The future belongs to idea folks who can just do things

It's hard to see a path forward where the majority of software engineers are doing artisanal hand-crafted commits by the end of 2026.

leerob.com

Personal software

In the future, everyone can cook.

block.github.io

Codename goose

Your open source AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly, on your machine.

developer.chrome.com

CSS text-box-trim

Take back space from above and below your text content; achieve optical balance.

ishadeed.com

Balancing text In CSS

Make text look more balanced with text-wrap in CSS.

webkit.org

The success of Interop 2024

The annual collaboration between browser engine teams has reached 95% interoperability this year.

codepen.io

The most hearted Code Pens of 2024

These are the most popular posts on Code Pen—good insight into what the design and dev community are exploring.

blog.damato.design

Your first component

When building a component library, what component do you build first and why is it always button?

beza1e1.tuxen.de

Software folklore

Sometimes bugs have symptoms beyond belief. This is a collection of such stories from around the web.