A manifesto advocating for AI-powered software that is personalized, private, and user-centric, moving beyond one-size-fits-all design.
Explores 'context plumbing' for AI agents, the engineering needed to move relevant context from various sources to where AI systems run.
Explores software design philosophy of minimizing user effort, using Google Calendar as an example of optimizing for common cases while supporting edge cases.
Explores eigensolutions and composability in creator tools to combat overfitting and improve generalization across diverse use cases.
Explores why successful tech products often prioritize familiar user experiences over unique, novel features, using examples like Astro and Supabase.
Explains why boolean function parameters are often a code smell and suggests better design alternatives.
A developer questions the pursuit of 'clean code' after refactoring for DRYness makes the codebase harder to understand.
The article argues for simplicity in design and technology, using examples from film and web development to show how complexity often creates more problems.
A programming article advocating for structuring code like a newspaper, with the most important information at the top for better readability.
Developer discusses rewriting a Java GUI client for Poliqarp, focusing on code cleanup and new protocol integration.
