Learning to Code

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…

AI Coding Plan-Code Freely. Ship Faster. No Surprise Bills. - Alibaba Cloud

Experience top-tier performance at a fixed monthly price. Qwen3-Coder-Plus, the cost-effective choice. Works with Cline, Claude Code & Qwen Code.

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...

ModelArk-Coding-Plan

First month from $4.5 USD. Flexible models, unlimited tools.

AI Employees Don't Pay Taxes | Alec Armbruster

Principal software engineer with deep experience in full-stack TypeScript, custom web browsers and real-time, media-focused systems.

Announcing the 16th Web Engines Hackfest | Igalia

Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions for companies across the globe. Our work and contributions are present in many projects such as GStreamer, Mesa 3D, WebKit, Chromium, etc.

Letta Code | Hacker News

If you're a Claude Code user (I assume much of HN is) some context on Letta Code: it's a fully open source coding harness (#1 model-agnostic OSS on Terminal-Bench, #4 overall).

Wave: Small Business Software - Wave Financial

Create beautiful invoices, accept online payments, and make accounting easy—all in one place—with Wave’s suite of money management tools.

Kilo - Pricing

Pricing for Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the CLI

On Long Term Software Development - Bert Hubert's writings

Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software. Much software is now provided as a service, and is typically deployed continuously (CD, continuous deployment), surrounded by enough automated testing (CI, continuous integration) that we can be reasonably sure that a new revision is likely to at least work to some extent.

Turns out Generative AI was a scam

Or at least very very far from what it has been cracked up to be

You’re Not Taking On Enough Tech Debt

TL;DR - The cost of servicing technical debt is plummeting because of LLMs; assuming coding models keep improving. You're better off taking more technical de...