Welcome to issue 102 of Hacker Bits!
We have a great selection of articles this month covering browser engines, DRY, refactoring, motivation, message queues, big data, hiring, and so much more!
As always, please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback! 🙂
– Ray and Maureen
Learn more
- Just Enough Software Architecture by George Fairbanks
- So you want to build a browser engine by Robert O’Callahan
- Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
- Don’t DRY Your Code Prematurely by Dan Maksimovich
- Three Laws of Software Complexity by Mahesh Balakrishnan
Work less
- Why “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” matters by Brian Harvey
- Don’t Refactor Like Uncle Bob by Axol
- Ship Something Every Day by Max Leiter
- Managing my motivation as a solo dev by Marcus Buffett
- Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem by Sam Curry
Stay current
- Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
- AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the path ahead by Satish Chandra, Maxim Tabachnyk
- What we’ve learned from a year of building with LLMs by Eugene Yan, Bryan Bischof, Charles Frye, Hamel Husain, Jason Liu, Shreya Shankar
- Big data is dead by Jordan Tigani
- Experienced engineers are struggling to get hired by Dare Obasanjo
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