London based software development consultant
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AI Coding@programming.dev•AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, and ice rinksEnglish
11·8 days agoThis behaviour sounds a lot like addiction. It has been argued that AI coding tools may be triggering the same dopamine loops as slot machines.
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Programming@programming.dev•Planning to learn multiple languages and frameworksEnglish
5·8 days agoDepending on your level of programming experience, you might find the exercises at Exercism quite useful.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•You can save at least 40% by externalizing the CSSEnglish
172·11 days agoIn case anyone is curious, this is the original post on X.
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AI Coding@programming.dev•Token spend breaks budgets – what next?English
1·19 days agoSome developers are now spending $500 a day (!!) on Claude Code. Practically speaking, this means that employee costs have doubled.
Where is this magic money tree for tokens? Reading through this article, it seems that some companies are happy to spend money on tokens. However, I doubt there is the same enthusiasm for training or conferences.
I am against scrolljacking too. Though having read through the article, and seen the animation in action at https://whimsy.joshwcomeau.com/, this is not scrolljacking, it’s just something that animates as you scroll. It’s so unobtrusive that I didn’t notice it the first time.
That is a good question. The beauty of the web is that readers can control their experience, be it with ad blockers, increasing the font-size, reader mode, or even changing the whole experience with user style sheets or Greasemonkey. This doesn’t mean it’s a waste of time to bother with pretty designs. People should build websites that they’re proud of, and accept that people might override their design with one better suited to their needs or taste.
Do we know the average user hits the back button when they encounter CSS animations? I was just a conference, and people were talking about browsing the web in reader mode, which I’d argue is more likely.
Given this is achieved with CSS, there is no reason that users can’t disable animations with a user style sheet. In fact this is what some users do, according to a CSS Working Group discussion about disabling view transitions.
Some users do set
transition-duration: 0in user style sheets in order to prevent transitions, same withanimation: noneor so.
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Programming@programming.dev•Open source Vercel alternatives?English
5·1 month agoCould you give more context about what Vercel features you need - is the site statically generated, or do you also need Vercel Functions?
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React@programming.dev•Is React still worth learning in 2026?English
3·1 month agoGreat question. Are you framing this in terms of employment opportunities, the end user experience, or both?
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CSS@programming.dev•An Interactive Cover ComponentEnglish
2·1 month agoAgreed though the article has this disclaimer:
Before we dive into the code, I think it’s worth pointing out that the goal is largely to be immersive and expose some lore. I think this design and effect fit because of the theme and because it’s not for critical content. My point is that it’s just an aesthetic component for a game that makes this acceptable — I don’t think this is necessarily a good user experience for your every day website where there are stakes.
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Programming@programming.dev•Open source Vercel alternatives?English
4·1 month agoThere are several European based alternatives to Vercel. It’s also worth having a read through or posting to !web_hosting@programming.dev
codeinabox@programming.devOPto
Linux@programming.dev•Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 YearsEnglish
16·2 months agoThough that quote is followed by this, which indicates at least five of those vulnerabilities were real:
I searched the Linux kernel and found a total of five Linux vulnerabilities so far that Nicholas either fixed directly or reported to the Linux kernel maintainers, some as recently as last week:
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Programming@programming.dev•Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing ThemEnglish
2·2 months agoYour comment reminded me of this article, The Software Quality and Productivity Crisis Executives Won’t Address, which discusses the lack of technical leadership when it comes to tackling technical debt, and that the solution is usually a rewrite.
Instead, most organisations don’t tackle technical debt until it causes an operational meltdown. At that point, they end up allocating 30–40% of their budget to massive emergency transformation programmes—double the recommended preventive investment (Oliver Wyman, 2024).
I have noticed the repository lacks
CONTRIBUTING.md. If you want to set some rules about contributing, I would have added them there, instead of creating a Markdown file specific for agents. I’m very much of the philosophy that you should write documentation for humans, which has the added bonus that it will also be consumed by agents.
codeinabox@programming.devOPto
JavaScript@programming.dev•npm's Defaults Are BadEnglish
2·2 months agoIt’s definitely got the worst defaults compared to the alternatives.
pnpm, Bun, and Deno have all made better choices about their defaults. pnpm blocks postinstall scripts, Bun requires explicit opt-in for them, Deno’s permission model is restrictive by design.
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Programming@programming.dev•Code Review Is Not About Catching BugsEnglish
41·2 months agoI agree but it depends on how teams create and refine their tickets. For example, you could have high level tickets, and someone picks one up and creates an implementation that’s not an appropriate fit for your architecture.
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Programming@programming.dev•The diminished art of codingEnglish
21·2 months agoThank you for not assuming my motivations. Could you please elaborate on what you mean by “oneshotted”? I share a lot of articles, so I’m not surprised you recognise my username.
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Programming@programming.dev•The diminished art of codingEnglish
33·2 months agoI don’t specifically seek them out. I follow quite a few different programming blogs, and I am just sharing what people are posting about, and it just so happens a lot of people are posting about this topic.

























An acronym for domain-driven design.