If you’ve ever wondered why some JavaScript code runs faster than others, the answer often lies in how V8—Chrome’s JavaScript engine—handles properties. It’s a fascinating tale of trade-offs between flexibility and performance. The Core Insight...
What if the most productive developer on your team spent zero time actually writing code? That’s exactly what Spotify revealed during their Q4 2025 earnings call, dropping a bombshell that made every software engineer pause:...
“Our best developers have not written a single line of code since December.” That’s not from a think piece about the future of work—it’s from Spotify’s Q4 2025 earnings call. The Core Insight Spotify has...
A Microsoft VP explains why agentic AI could be as transformative as the public cloud—and where deployments are actually failing Amanda Silver has spent 24 years helping developers build things at Microsoft. Now leading tools...
Charles Leifer’s seven-year Cython project is finally ready for testing—including in your browser If you’ve ever wrestled with Python’s sqlite3 module—especially its quirky transaction handling—there’s good news. Charles Leifer, the maintainer behind pysqlite3 and the...
A devoted user base, radio silence from developers, and a community-led rescue attempt. This is what happens when indie apps lose their way. The Core Insight Musicboard, a beloved music discovery and recommendation app, has...
Gergely Orosz, author of The Pragmatic Engineer, is publicly processing something many developers are feeling privately: the loss of coding as a craft identity. The Core Insight “I’m coming to terms with the high probability...
Microsoft has released F# 10 with .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026, delivering a refinement release focused on ergonomics, consistency, and performance. While not a revolutionary update, the improvements address real pain points that F#...
When a classic 1993 video game suddenly won’t compile on modern systems, the debugging journey that follows reveals fascinating insights about programming language evolution, backwards compatibility, and the subtle dangers lurking in type definitions. The...
In a world of venture-funded chat apps that pivot, sell, or shut down, Zulip is betting on a different model: sustainable growth, 100% open source, and software designed to last decades. The Core Insight When...