Codecoupled is a personal essay series by a developer, 'Strong Opinions, Moderately Held', arguing for specific software engineering practices such as verbose commit messages, squashing feature branches, and skepticism toward code comments. Each issue makes a clear, reasoned case for one opinion and anticipates objections.
Website: https://codecoupled.org/
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, and his new TWiT show.
Ryan Singer, author of Shape Up, shares practical guidance on defining software before hiring developers, separating framing (choosing work and getting buy-in) from shaping (specifying mechanics for building). Issues include a primer on documenting business logic and a real-world end-to-end Shape Up case study.
A CTO-written newsletter on how agentic AI development is reshaping engineering management, org structure, and tooling, using first-person essays on allocation, visibility and workflow. Each issue offers original argument and concrete operational detail a reader in engineering leadership can apply.
Felix Geisendörfer writes technical posts about Go runtime internals, profiling, and performance tooling, drawn from his work on Datadog's profiler. Readers get deep dives into stack trace capture, practical guides such as making tech videos, and walkthroughs of profiling features for debugging request latency.
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