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90s.dev

90s.dev

A custom built gaming platform for game-engine engineers, pixel artists, and game developers.

thewayofcode.com

The way of code: the timeless art of vibe coding

Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding.

blog.damato.design

Done with components

Component libraries aren’t design systems until people start caring.

blog.pragmaticengineer.com

Stack overflow is almost dead

Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month as when it launched back in 2009.

codigolangs.com

Codigo: the programming language repository

Trending programming languages, news, and language details—including code examples.

addyo.substack.com

Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work

A field guide to responsible AI-assisted development.

playhtml.fun

Fridge poetry

Drag words around to make poems; leave them for others to find later and come back to see how people have changed the fridge.

appstacks.club

App stacks

Discover stories and stacks behind your favorite apps.

madewithvibe.com

Made with vibe

Discover innovative projects created with AI assistance and vibe coding techniques.

terriblesoftware.org

The hidden cost of AI coding

AI coding tools boost productivity but may sacrifice the deep satisfaction developers experience when writing code by hand. What are we losing?

cekrem.github.io

Coding as craft: going back to the old gym

Why ‘reflexive AI usage’ sounds like a diagnosis I don’t want next to my name.

blog.infected.systems

This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii

A blog post served to you by a real Nintendo Wii + details around the workflow to make that possible.

annievella.com

The software engineering identity crisis

Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things.

joshwcomeau.com

The post-developer era

A fresh look at the current LLM landscape, to see how things have changed, and to see if we can anticipate how things will continue to evolve.

frontendmasters.com

CSS bursts with conic gradients

Using hard color stops with repeating-conic-gradient() and the double-stop syntax, we can pretty easily create a burst background.

seangoedecke.com

Engineers who won’t commit

Why remaining non-committal is cowardly (and isn't it the same with design?).

kenneth.io

No code is dead — long live vibe coding

No-code didn’t replace code or traditional programming. It didn’t even come close.

webkit.org

Item flow: a new unified concept for layout

CSS Grid and Flexbox brought incredible layout tools to the web, but they don’t yet do everything a designer might want.

endler.dev

The best programmers I know

Lately, I asked myself: “What does it take to be one of the best? What do they all have in common?”

codepen.io

Holographic masks in CSS

Experimenting with some CSS holographic effects that are activated on scroll.