A personal blog by a computer programmer documenting side projects, including a Z80 emulator in .NET and experiments training reinforcement learning agents to play ZX Spectrum games. Readers get candid, first-person accounts of engineering decisions, framework comparisons and the technical problems encountered along the way.
Website: https://www.mrkwatkins.co.uk/
Casey Muratori's newsletter announces new videos from his Performance-Aware Programming course and his Q&A sessions, covering low-level topics like SIMD, CPU behaviour, and optimization. Readers get video updates plus answers to viewer questions on game development, timing, and software complexity.
Kent Beck writes about software design, testing and programming technique, framing them as ways of improving human relationships among developers. Issues mix practical techniques such as refactoring tests with reflections on working with AI coding tools and mental models for feedback loops.
A Korean-language engineering blog by a search engine developer covering GPU architecture, vector compression research and personal updates. Readers get technical explainers written from a practitioner's perspective, plus occasional reflections on work and study.
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, and his new TWiT show.
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