Developer Collaboration Blogs

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Joel Spolsky
11/13/2025 • EN

Joel Spolsky

JoelOnSoftware.com is the personal blog of Joel Spolsky, a software engineer, entrepreneur and writer. He is known for founding companies like Fog Creek Software and co-founding Stack Overflow. His blog features influential essays on software development, management, architecture, user interface design, productivity, and hiring. Joel’s writing blends technical insight with business-savvy, covering topics such as the "Joel Test" for evaluating software teams, handling legacy codebases, and building software organizations that work well. Over the years his archives have become essential reading for software professionals who care about building quality systems and thriving teams.

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Simon Willison
11/13/2025 • EN

Simon Willison

SimonWillison.net is the long-running blog of Simon Willison, a software engineer, open-source creator, and co-author of the original Django framework. He writes about Python, Django, Datasette, AI tooling, prompt engineering, search, databases, APIs, data journalism, and practical software architecture. The blog includes detailed notes from experiments, conference talks, and real projects. Readers will find clear explanations of topics such as LLM workflows, SQL patterns, data publishing, scraping, deployment, caching, and modern developer tooling. Simon also publishes frequent micro-posts and TIL entries that document small discoveries and tricks from day-to-day engineering work. The tone is practical and research oriented, making the site a valuable resource for anyone interested in serious engineering and open data.

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