A personal software development blog by a developer reflecting on AI tools, games and the craft of programming, with an informal, opinionated voice. Readers get short, playful takes on predictions for AI in 2026, when AI tools are worth using, and why building a solo game is a good way to learn and feel creative.
Website: https://creston.blog
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.
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.
A CTO writes first-person essays on how agentic AI development changes engineering management, covering work allocation, visibility into parallel agent threads, and factory-style workflows. Readers get original analysis and concrete practices from running a team of about twenty engineers.
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