A developer shares practical, experience-based essays on building products before product-market fit, covering user acquisition, mentoring junior developers, and choosing backend frameworks like Rails, Node and Python. Readers get candid opinions drawn from years of startup and consulting work rather than generic advice.
Website: https://december-devs.ghost.io/
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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