DHH's opening keynote had shockingly little to say about Rails.
What We're Working On | Prime Radiant
So, I guess this is the first post on the corporate blog. It's probably about time for me to introduce myself.
Why the fuss about conversational programming?
First, there isn’t much fuss … yet. But there will be.
Open Forks of Boring Apps With Authority - Woodys Rows
The Atmosphere can win by becoming the foundation for software people already need to use because of real-world relationships.
Prioritize learning / seth.computer
The personal website of Seth Etter, a Wichita, KS based software engineer.
Freefall 4399 July 13, 2026
TRANSCRIPT Sam: Telling the computer what I want to have done. It makes my job easy. I don't know how it works. I don't know what I'm actually doing. Sam: I've always assumed the other guys know what they're doing. If they're using A.I. as well... this could be a problem. Sam: It makes it too obvious that almost nobody knows what they're actually doing. That destroys one of the illusions societies are built on.
The Laws of Simplicity / John Maeda
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
Frontend Minimalism in Action: Do More With Less JavaScript | Peter Kröner | webinale Berlin 2026
Software Should Be Allowed to Be Weird - Ewan’s Blog
A fairly large amount of the software I write would probably die in a corporate planning meeting. There would be questions about the target audience, the bu…
Two Types of Assemblages
Recovering from an exhausting yet highly productive and exciting trip to Georgia Tech, I was excited to see that Alex Reid has a VERY INTERESTING post up on object-oriented rhetoric. In his discuss…
An introduction to "introduction": a common but rarely-named systems concept
Introduction is not always just a simple map from a name to a response containing addresses. In fact, it's more interesting when it's not simple.
the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay
There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff
On AI and building your own GIS software
Of the thousands of essays over the past two years surrounding AI and its implications are some very thought provoking ones with enormous implications for GIS. Some of the essays are around the the…
The future is low-tech: lessons from the early 2000s ft. Jésabel DC | Config 2026