Software development
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Personal blogging now requires bank-grade security as bot traffic saturates the internet
Bear Blog's weekend outage exposes the hidden infrastructure crisis making independent platforms economically unsustainable
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Programmers reinvent 1970s concepts because nobody teaches computing history
Alan Kay's warning about software development's historical amnesia reveals a profession that treats its intellectual heritage as irrelevant trivia
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Ladybird browser reaches Apple's 90% test threshold whilst remaining years from usability
Independent project passes arbitrary benchmark as major browsers avoid iOS entirely
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AI coding tools accelerate retreat from open-source licensing as developers struggle to protect their work
From Bear's licensing change to HashiCorp's Business Source License, creators face new pressures at a time when artificial intelligence makes code cloning faster than ever
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Software developers agree simplicity matters, then build complex systems anyway
A heated online debate reveals the gap between engineering principles and workplace realities
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Germany invests millions in open source whilst Britain's digital infrastructure relies on volunteers
The cost of maintaining ten miles of motorway could secure software that millions depend on daily—yet only one country is taking this seriously
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Elixir developers question 'let it crash' philosophy as user experience suffers
A three-word mantra meant to describe sophisticated fault tolerance is creating real problems when applied without nuance
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The great AI disconnect splitting software development
How Stack Overflow's 2025 survey reveals a profession caught between organisational pressure and professional scepticism
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How big tech learned to love user rebellion
Why malleable software could perfect rather than challenge platform dominance
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When AI theatre meets scientific reality
When rival AI systems hit the same ceiling, they revealed their true limitations
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The self-taught engineer myth
Why autodidactic narratives don't match industry reality
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Why methodology trumps metrics in AI
How automated evaluation tools create the illusion of progress whilst undermining genuine quality
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Faster code, slower teams
How the rush to automate coding has made software teams slower than ever