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windowsontheory.org

Machines of faithful obedience

In the next decade, AI progress will be extremely rapid, and such periods of sharp transition can be risky.

2025.stateofdevs.com

State of Devs 2025

"This is going to be too controversial”, they said. The results from the first ever State of Devs survey.

brooker.co.za

Career advice, or something like it

If I could offer you a single piece of career advice, it’s this: avoid negativity echo chambers.

fastcompany.com

Where the design jobs are now

FastCompany's guide to who’s hiring right now, and what they’re looking for.

benholliday.com

Design is care (and sensing carelessness)

Why design is care, and how the experiences we shape and deliver will be defined by how people sense that care in the future.

signalfire.com

State of tech talent report 2025

A sharp reset in tech hiring—entry-level roles are vanishing, elite AI labs winning the retention war, and new power centers emerging.

softwareheritage.org

When memory was measured in kilobytes

Back when RAM was precious, clever code reigned. Take a peek into early computer vision’s elegant solutions.

fly.io

My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

doc.cc

Syntax

This series examines core concepts shaping our designed world, tracing their origins and dissecting their practical significance.

lennysnewsletter.com

How tech workers really feel about work right now

Results from a large-scale tech worker sentiment survey.

lethain.com

Career advice in 2025

I’ve been having too many “2025 is not much fun”-themed career discussions with prior colleagues navigating the current job market.

seangoedecke.com

Why are big tech companies so slow?

Big tech companies spend a lot of time and money building things that a single, motivated engineer could build in a weekend. But why?

scottrichmond.me

The web is too big, or scaling down

The problem with this situation isn't that Mozilla or Firefox aren't good enough. It's that the web is too complicated.

wallpaper.com

Michael Mauer on two decades of Porsche’s design

Porsche’s signature style has diversified in recent years, thanks to the design leadership of Michael Mauer.

restofworld.org

The most surprising tech champions of 2024

From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions stood out for their impressive growth this year.