Introducing Sponsorware: How A Small Open Source Package Increased My Salary By $11k in Two Days

<p>After digging deep on SQLite during a pair programming session with a client/friend, I had an idea…</p> <p>About 45 minutes later, a proo...

We have killed the technical debt - Alex's Blog

Big day for docs 🙂🙂

Settling in, and looking ahead - pckt - Dev Journal

Hey Bloggers ! A lot has happened since our last post. Which always seems to be the case... We've been hard at work crafting new features and refining existing...

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023

In May 2023 over 90,000 developers responded to our annual survey about how they learn and level up, which tools they're using, and which ones they want.

Why Are We Still Doing This?

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Big Tech’s A.I. Spending Is Accelerating (Again)

Despite the risk of a bubble, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon plan to spend billions more on artificial intelligence than they already do.

What Investing in Software Looks Like in 2026

In case you quietly filed Point Nine under “boring SaaS investor” … well, first of all, I’m not going to blame you. We’ve been investing in…

Research Debt

Science is a human activity. When we fail to distill and explain research, we accumulate a kind of debt...

Quality Wednesdays: How we trained our team to see what doesn’t work - Linear

In early 2023 at an offsite in Tenerife, our European engineering team did a series of exercises that ended up changing the way we work.

What happened to Science Goodreads and how do we rebuild it? A 65 million dollar question (at least) - Cosmik Labs

The story of the rise and fall of Mendeley

under the hood

This week I’ve been thinking about what it’s like for a new generation to make things with computers. When we were talking in Berlin, Luce made a point that...

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Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code

Psst. If your boss won’t invest in training you in Specification By Example (BDD, ATDD), I’m running out-of-hours workshops on May 12 and 16 specifically for self-funding learners. £99 + UK VAT. An…