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- Show HN: Writing for Software Developers https://philipkiely.com/wfsd/ 58 comments
- QISKit: A software development kit for writing quantum computing programs https://github.com/QISKit/qiskit-sdk-py 2 comments
- Anthropic's CEO says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code software developers were in charge of https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-code-3-to-6-months-2025-3 71 comments economy
- I started writing about the human aspects of software development https://jsemotions.hashnode.dev/ 6 comments javascript
- I'm tired of writing code, where can I take my career after 5 years of software development ? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6p4pzr/im_tired_of_writing_code_where_can_i_take_my/ 13 comments cscareerquestions
- Developing Software is Like Writing an Essay http://paltman.com/developing-software-is-like-writing-an-essay/ 23 comments compsci
- On Long Term Software Development - Bert Hubert's writings https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term-software-development/ 5 comments programming
- Writing a book on software development, not sure how best to get both a website and a book version http://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/chapter0/ 4 comments learnprogramming
- Software engineer developed AI to write the next Game of Thrones book https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/09/artificial-intelligence-is-trying-to-write-the-next-game-of-thrones-book/ 6 comments artificial
- Blockstream's write-up on the Confidential Transactions software it is developing, which keeps tx amounts private, and can be adopted by Bitcoin to improve its privacy/fungibility https://elementsproject.org/elements/confidential-transactions/ 181 comments btc
- My thoughts on software development: Learning to write Half Assed Software (Tips for Agile Development) http://moderndeveloper.blogspot.com/2010/12/learning-to-write-half-assed-software.html 6 comments programming
- Ask Reddit: What sort of (useful) program should I write to learn more about software development? http://programming.reddit.com/info/2sxc7/comments 73 comments programming
- By writing in ANSI C on NeXTStep, Id Software is able to develop and test in a true programmer’s environment. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21405 165 comments programming
- There are some software developers writing code to run a UFO hunting platform called Sky Hub. https://medium.com/skyhub10/the-rise-of-sky-hub-34af98a4a770 124 comments programming
- The most impactful lesson I've learned in 2019 has to be this quote - "Software Is About Developing Knowledge More Than Writing Code" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/software-developing-knowledge-more-than-writing-code-maksimavi%25c4%258dius 165 comments programming
- Russian Free Software developer sentenced to three years in prison for writing emulator http://www.ospint.com/text/d/4228252/ 29 comments programming
- Why Good Developers Write Bad Code: An Observational Case Study of the Impacts of Organizational Factors on Software Quality [pdf] http://www.upedu.org/papers/icse2015_organizationalfactors/lavalleerobillard_icse2015_whygooddeveloperswritebadcode.pdf 12 comments programming
- I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser ... I get angry about the corporations screwing over people, software, planets. I’m not in a position to solve that. I’m just a developer that will attempt to write a browser. https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2023/09/22/browsers.html 280 comments programming
- Tornado Cash Developer Is Sentenced to Prison for the Crime of Writing Privacy-Preserving Software the State Does Not Like https://mises.org/mises-wire/tornado-cash-developer-sentenced-prison-crime-writing-privacy-preserving-software-state-does-not 135 comments cryptocurrency
- As far back as 1967, a programmer named Melvin Conway was writing about software development when he noticed a funny thing: You could tell a lot about an organization by the kind of computer programs it designed. http://simplicity.laserfiche.com/want-better-programs-do-a-reorg/ 213 comments programming
- Rice U. turns deep-learning AI loose on software development: "BAYOU learned to write code for programmers by studying billions of programs" http://news.rice.edu/2018/04/25/rice-u-turns-deep-learning-ai-loose-on-software-development-2/ 5 comments cogsci
- Resigned from Google back in Sept 2022 and ended up writing a book about the dysfunctional software development practices in today's world. Here's one of the free chapters: Agile as a Micromanagement Tool https://muromuro.substack.com/p/agile-as-a-micromanagement-tool 42 comments programming
- This is funny, but when you're actually a developer, this isn't funny at all. One can spend hundreds of hours writing great software only to have the user want it free. Devs do need food too! http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apps 428 comments programming
- Developing modern embedded software... requires expertise not just in temporally oriented modeling (W comes after X) like writing sequential code but also in spatially oriented modeling (Y connects with Z) like creating circuits http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2488 2 comments programming
- TIL Panasonic software developed a computer program 'Secret Writer's Society' to teach kids to write. Due to a bug in the code, double clicking 'Read' instead of reading back what you wrote, would instead read back the swear filter. https://obscuritory.com/educational/secret-writers-society/ 2 comments programmerhumor
- If you write a piece of software for Gnome using Gtk3, is there some sort of API where you can create these "fancy tray icons" or would developers have to create a separate Gnome extension? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TdpoBypFL_I/AAAAAAAAEh0/BjQ6kq5RUWc/s2000/gnome-shell-weather-extension.png 15 comments gnome
- "Ultimately the big pools / miners should have their own in-house development teams to write custom software according to their specifications. That is the endgame." ~ u/KoKansei ... "Right. This is what people miss - miners run their own custom binaries anyway." ~ u/jeanduluoz https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/62duo7/f2pools_first_signal/dflpwjs/?context=1 6 comments btc
- Chris Troutner: "I wanted to help someone in #Venezuela , so I'm tutoring a novice #JavaScript developer as he writes #opensource software. I pay him $100 per week. It's making a huge difference in his life. With #BitcoinCash we don't have to consider what governments or banks think about it." https://twitter.com/christroutner/status/1142080363981709313 7 comments btc
- Software Development is a Cultural Ecology. Work with it, not against it. Stop writing coding conventions and policy documents. Instead, start changing the development "environment" to make the-right-thing(TM) the path of least resistance. https://anderssundman.medium.com/welcome-to-the-jungle-b0864a76d7f0 70 comments programming
