If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?
Writing Code Is Easy. Reading It Isn’t.
Writing code is easy. Once you have a solution in mind, and have mastered the syntax of your favorite programming language, writing code is easy. Having an LLM write entire functions for you? Even eas
Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.
“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.
What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This
The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.
What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This
The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.
Stop saying learning to code is easy.
(The photo above was taken at the Microsoft NYC office of three amazing young ...
Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026
Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026 · GitHub
We mourn our craft
I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…
Why designing for open source can be so difficult
I design interfaces and ship the code myself. Portfolio and writing from Gilli Sigurdsson.
Why I love working with the web
> Easy is boring. That's why I love the web and browsers …] — [me I love that my code can run anywhere for anyone. Indeed that's the challenge. The web is a hu…
Written? Kitten!
The Internet's best write-reward system! Write one hundred words, get an image of a kitten!
Reading Code Is Hard, and tips to improve - Trisha Gee
This week's video for Dave Farley's Continuous Delivery YouTube channel is me ranting about why reading code sucks, and offering some advice on how to improve. "Every programmer occasionally, when nobody’s home, turns off the lights, pours a glass of scotch, puts on some light German electronica, and opens up a file on their computer. ... Read more
Make It Work vs. Make It Good
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.