Louis Tsai, a Berlin-based developer and GDG organiser, shares practical notes from his hands-on work: low-budget meetup video recording setups and lessons learned, learning Rust GUI development with GPUI, and reflections on returning to Android coding after two years as a team lead. The writing is personal and concrete, mixing specific gear and steps with candid observations.
Website: https://louis-tsai.ghost.io/
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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