Scott Mallinson writes engineering notes on building AI tools, API-driven background jobs and system design, drawing lessons from real bugs in his own systems. Readers get concrete, first-hand accounts of failure modes and the reasoning behind fixes, such as hysteresis in batch jobs and keeping constraints in code rather than prompts.

Field notes on security and software engineering, with detailed troubleshooting write-ups on Azure services and web security. Readers get worked debugging stories, local test harness builds, and explanations of modern practices like strict CSP.

Long-form technical posts by Ember.js co-creator Yehuda Katz on the development of Ember and its Polaris edition. Readers get insider explanations of design decisions, in-progress work and practical code examples.

Remote Dev Diary is an independent developer news newsletter that reports on recent technical and security events with practical guidance. Issues in this sample cover a PHP vulnerability requiring urgent patching, a voice-agent SDK launch with its limits, and a breach affecting saved provider API keys.