Software development
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The education of corporate silence: how experienced engineers learn to watch projects fail
Senior professionals develop an instinct for strategic inaction. The institutional costs are higher than anyone admits.
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Brussels asks open source developers for help while funding programs reject their work
A new European consultation on digital sovereignty arrives alongside concrete funding mechanisms—but developers remain sceptical that institutions understand what they actually need
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AWS broke its unwritten pricing promise. The ripple effects will reach far beyond GPUs.
A Saturday price hike on a narrow service may signal a permanent shift in how cloud providers exercise power over locked-in enterprises
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Stack Overflow's collapse reveals the fragility of the programming knowledge commons
The platform that trained the AIs that replaced it was already dying from within
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Paying developers per story point sounds revolutionary. Frederick Taylor tried something similar in 1895.
A buzzy new compensation model for software engineers draws from deep wells of industrial history—and psychological research on what really motivates creative work
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Engineering leaders demand systems design skills as AI coding assistants produce mounting technical debt
Tools like GitHub Copilot promise productivity gains, but companies discover that AI-generated code works brilliantly in clean systems and catastrophically in messy ones
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Personal blogging now requires bank-grade security as bot traffic saturates the internet
Bear Blog's weekend outage exposes the hidden infrastructure crisis making independent platforms economically unsustainable
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Programmers reinvent 1970s concepts because nobody teaches computing history
Alan Kay's warning about software development's historical amnesia reveals a profession that treats its intellectual heritage as irrelevant trivia
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Ladybird browser reaches Apple's 90% test threshold whilst remaining years from usability
Independent project passes arbitrary benchmark as major browsers avoid iOS entirely
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AI coding tools accelerate retreat from open-source licensing as developers struggle to protect their work
From Bear's licensing change to HashiCorp's Business Source License, creators face new pressures at a time when artificial intelligence makes code cloning faster than ever
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Software developers agree simplicity matters, then build complex systems anyway
A heated online debate reveals the gap between engineering principles and workplace realities
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Germany invests millions in open source whilst Britain's digital infrastructure relies on volunteers
The cost of maintaining ten miles of motorway could secure software that millions depend on daily—yet only one country is taking this seriously
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Elixir developers question 'let it crash' philosophy as user experience suffers
A three-word mantra meant to describe sophisticated fault tolerance is creating real problems when applied without nuance
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The great AI disconnect splitting software development
How Stack Overflow's 2025 survey reveals a profession caught between organisational pressure and professional scepticism
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How big tech learned to love user rebellion
Why malleable software could perfect rather than challenge platform dominance
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When AI theatre meets scientific reality
When rival AI systems hit the same ceiling, they revealed their true limitations
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The self-taught engineer myth
Why autodidactic narratives don't match industry reality
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Why methodology trumps metrics in AI
How automated evaluation tools create the illusion of progress whilst undermining genuine quality
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Faster code, slower teams
How the rush to automate coding has made software teams slower than ever