A personal engineering newsletter by a developer who writes about the open web, framework divergence between React and Remix, and staff-plus engineering careers. Readers get first-person takeaways from conferences and recommended reading lists for senior technical leadership.
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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.
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.
Richard Lemon writes practical, first-person posts for frontend developers on topics like logging food via a chat interface to Cronometer, analysing his server logs for AI crawler traffic, and managing sync across two Macs. Each issue shares concrete setups, measurements and the failure modes he ran into.
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