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Geocodio explains how a two-person company moved from bash scripts to maintainable internal apps, the system that keeps those tools from rotting, and where they draw the line between building and buying.
10 min · 2,238 words
Creating and Using Code Snippets in Xcode
A practical tutorial on Xcode code snippets—creating reusable Swift/SwiftUI templates with placeholders, completion shortcuts, and tips for organizing snippets you type repeatedly.
9 min · 1,961 words
Ghost Jobs Report, September 2026
Unlisted finds 28.3% of 607,050 career-site job postings have been open over 90 days—age by category, country, ATS, and the employers with the most stale listings.
7 min · 1,617 words
Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
Addy Osmani shares practical prompting, long-run steering, and verification tips for Anthropic’s Opus 5.5 model in Claude apps and Claude Code.
11 min · 2,449 words
A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
Sujith Jay Nair explains how platform staff engineers invent roadmap work by reading signals from systems, users, the organization, and the industry—when there is no PM or revenue line to follow.
8 min · 1,756 words
Waymo announces a Bay Area transit rewards program that pays Waymo Cash when riders connect autonomous trips with public transit using tap-to-pay Visa cards, starting with employees before a public rollout.
2 min · 562 words
Managing the Hidden Overhead of AI Software Engineering
Jessica Doering on verification debt: AI coding tools move the bottleneck from typing to review, why opening another agent terminal feels productive, and habits that spend reclaimed time on specs, docs, and understanding.
3 min · 725 words
Singapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Books
Singapore’s National Library Board is offering micropayments to build a reading habit—paying people small sums to put phones down and spend time with books.
4 min · 941 words
Alice GG on the Tetris effect for modern feeds: how attention gets hijacked, why it is the scarce resource, and what reclaiming it means for builders and users.
3 min · 620 words
I Don't Want to Read What You Didn't Write
Colin Breck argues intentional human writing becomes more valuable as AI floods inboxes with unreadable generated docs, design proposals, and blog posts that skip the thinking.
13 min · 3,000 words
Two Years of Building with AI: An Honest Developer Review
An honest two-year look at AI-assisted development—from ChatGPT to Claude Code—what works, why every change still gets reviewed, and the de-skilling risk.
7 min · 1,632 words
CleanShot’s bulldozed settings
Marcin Wichary documents how CleanShot’s settings UI was “bulldozed”: dense preferences flattened into a shallower, less legible layout, and what that says about modern app design trade-offs.
5 min · 1,074 words
Remus Lazar mined a year of commits, PRs, and Slack after a 64-day coding streak with agents—and set hard limits: two agents max, a pause between plan and build, close sessions, and take the day off.
8 min · 1,873 words
the senior engineer death spiralon proving yourself, burning out, and being a good teammate
Sunil Pai names a common failure mode for engineers in new senior roles: cosplaying harder ambition, disappearing into secret overwork, burning out, then damaging trust. His antidote is to drop a level—become the greatest teammate first.
4 min · 993 words
Three levels of noticingI see, but I do not observe
Kabir Khandpur sketches three levels of noticing—paying attention, recognizing patterns, and acting on what you observe—using birdwatching and everyday work as practice for seeing what was always there.
4 min · 906 words
Migrating Shop app from React Native to native (2026)
Shopify migrated the Shop app from React Native to Swift and Kotlin, going from proof-of-concept to App Store and Play Store publishes in 12 weeks with AI-assisted engineering.
6 min · 1,300 words
Better Icon and Label AlignmentAligning list icons when labels wrap to multiple lines.
There is a common design pattern that sometimes gets missed or overlooked. It’s having a list of items, each with an icon. When the text is one line, the icon is centered, but when the text has multiple lines, the icon is still centered but looks odd.
5 min · 1,127 words
Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Hister indexes the full contents of pages you visit and files you keep so you can search them again from a web UI, the terminal, or an AI assistant over MCP.
2 min · 529 words
Don't Make Job Referrals Public
A job-market observation: public referral programs blur incentives and dilute what a referral is supposed to mean when recruiters and candidates treat them as open calls.
3 min · 576 words
Stop Starting Over With Your AI: Durable Memory for AI Agents
Phasoric on why project context evaporates between AI sessions, and how durable memory plus MCP can preserve decisions, history, and reasoning across agent workflows.
9 min · 2,020 words