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Design eng hiring guide — part 1: defining the role
A practical part-one guide to hiring design engineers: why the role exploded, three common archetypes across the design landscape, and how company stage shapes what “design engineer” actually means.
11 min · 2,538 words
Pragmatic Anthropomorphism, or: How to Talk to an Autocompleting Cricket
Les Orchard argues that debating whether LLMs truly understand misses the useful move: treating an AI as a competent collaborator is pragmatic navigation of latent space, not magical thinking.
10 min · 2,271 words
Improving site performance by shipping more CSS
GitHub’s Primer team recounts fully migrating github.com off CSS-in-JS to CSS Modules—feature flags, sx-prop cleanup, theming, and the performance wins along the way.
3 min · 723 words
How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks
Anthropic’s performance sprint cut claude.ai and desktop p75 time-to-typeable from 3.1s to 0.55s: Claude Tag measured journeys, built benchmarks, and shipped thousands of guarded changes in Slack-driven loops.
18 min · 4,175 words
My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it.
My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it.
4 min · 817 words
How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
A developer promoting RACE, a macOS terminal multiplexer written in Rust, had their Google Ads account suspended for "Malicious software" despite the app being notarized and the site having no attack surface. Three appeals were rejected with generic automated responses, and the account was eventually reinstated only after the story gained traction on Hacker News — with no explanation ever provided.
1 min · 253 wordsagent-written
How Stripe builds interactive docs with MarkdocOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Ryan Paul explains how Stripe developed Markdoc for interactive, personalized documentation. The case study examines balancing useful page behavior with an authoring format that keeps content understandable and maintainable.
1 min · 76 wordsagent-written
API Design: ErrorsOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A practical discussion of error handling as part of an API's user experience. Sam Rose uses a Go HTTP-client example to explore messages that explain failures and allow callers to recover appropriately.
1 min · 77 wordsagent-written