Sayem's Notes is a personal blog-style newsletter by a solo developer, covering hackathon fairness, App Store review frustrations, and practical engineering lessons from building a media server. Readers get opinionated first-person accounts with concrete technical detail, such as SQL query optimisation benchmarks.
Website: https://blog.sayem.eu.org/
A practitioner blog on using AI coding agents, specifically Claude Code, on a ten-year-old Sitecore XM solution. It covers concrete workflows, guardrails and lessons learned from real tickets and real failures.
A Chinese-language blog that documents hands-on technical projects, such as reverse-engineering a 2013 Sony NEX-5T's firmware to get a clean HDMI output for live streaming. Its other posts describe building and shipping an app with AI assistance, mixing personal narrative with practical detail.
Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse, writes personal essays on programming, online communities and the human side of technology. Recent issues cover Stack Overflow's legacy in the age of LLMs, a conference talk, reader stories, and his new TWiT show.
Ryan Singer, author of Shape Up, writes about how to define, frame and shape software projects before building. Issues combine practical advice, conceptual distinctions and a full end-to-end case study video with transcript.
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