The virtuous circle

Bjarnason: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity

Baldur Bjarnason argues that development tools win by making developers replaceable. The JVM ran that experiment three times, against Visual Basic's precedent, through EJB's committee, and into Spring's reversal, and the results say his theory is exactly half of a whole.

Mystical

I wanted to make a programming language that resembled magical circles. This is more like a way to write PostScript that looks like a magical circle, but I will refer to it as Mystical in this document.

Skircle - Bluesky Interaction Circles

Create Bluesky Interaction Circles with ease!

The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck

In his classic Programming Perl — affectionately known to a generation of technologists as "the Camel Book" — Larry Wall famously wrote of the three virtues of a programmer as laziness, impatience, and hubris: If we’re going to talk about good software design, we have to talk about Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris, the basis of good software design. We’ve all fallen into the trap of using cut-and-paste when we should have defined a higher-level abstraction, if only just a loop or subroutine. To be sure, some folks have gone to the opposite extreme of defining ever-growing mounds of higher level abstractions when they should have used cut-and-paste. Generally, though, most of us need to think about using more abstraction rather than less.

Vim anti-patterns | Arabesque

The benefits of getting to grips with Vim are immense in terms of editing speed and maintaining your “flow” when you’re on a roll, whether writing code, poetry, or prose, but because the learning curve is so steep for a text editor, it’s very easy to retain habits from your time learning the editor that stick with you well into mastery. Because Vim makes you so fast and fluent, it’s especially hard to root these out because you might not even notice them, but it’s worth it. Here I’ll list some of the more common ones.

Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris · Adam Jacob

How Larry Wall's virtues of a Perl programmer inspire me in this era of engineering

The Making of Cursor's Icons

A year of drawing, testing, and shipping a complete icon system for the world's favourite coding agent.

Priivacy-ai/spec-kitty

Spec-Driven Development for serious software developers. Spec Coding with with Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Codex. Kanban dashboard, git worktrees, auto-merge and more.

Pure CSS halftone patterns: dots, lines, circles

A project overdue. As an 80's/90's kid, I was obsessed with printing technology - and especially halftone patterns. I've long theorized that these pat

Procedural Tokens — encoding design decisions

Most design tokens hold a value. The interesting ones hold a rule. A live walk from static refs to procedural tokens.

Tiling Is the Missing Abstraction in Graphics Programming

A software engineer’s playbook for tiling: scheduling, threadgroups, and the small decisions that make performance predictable.

Doing maths in CSS

sin(), cos(), atan2() landed in CSS in 2023. You can now place elements in circles, arcs, and spirals with pure CSS, no JavaScript, no libraries. Here's how the math works.

Unit Circle Trigonometry - haitham

An interactive sketch for visualizing sine and cosine functions with the unit circle

Pavlovpulus - Artist on Instagram: "I kept adding disruptive elements into the mix .. the unmatching colors, the calculated “mistakes”, the missing circle and all the things that makes uncomfortable but I’m starting to like. #art #penplotter #arte #abstract #ink #circles #relaxing #satisfying"

836K likes, 1,327 comments - pavlovpulus on October 7, 2023: "I kept adding disruptive elements into the mix .. the unmatching colors, the calculated “mistakes”, the missing circle and all the things that makes uncomfortable but I’m starting to like. #art #penplotter #arte #abstract #ink #circles #relaxing #satisfying".