Ryan Kon worked in big companies, started his own startup, and now runs a web development firm. We talk about how to be more robust and antifragile in your tech career, tech people being incapable to grow, tail-call optimisation, code editors, the weird “nerd fantasy” of remote work, and much more.

Some would say reason one is enough: “It is Typed” 😅 but there are 6 other ones!

Quite an impressive Ask HN thread from a 74-year-old programmer who is 57 years in the business. Comments by other senior folks about how they developed in their career, pretty sweet. Don’t give ageism a chance!

Percentage of developers who are developing with the language or technology and have expressed interest in continuing to develop with it - Javascript ist last.

So they use Chromium and JavaScript for the Dragon 2 flight interface but the actual flight computers still run on C++. Dragon uses a triple redundant system for its flight computers, read this exciting thread for more

Once in a while it is good to recall the basics! Have a look.

Good writing is important in every job. A simple guide to make yours more effective; just the use of simpler words help a lot, examples:

Assistance -> Help

In order to -> To

Provide -> Give

Obtain -> Get

However -> But

A beautiful article on ubiquitous React: On the social, cultural, and technological impacts of the increasingly ubiquitous frontend framework.

Really great Q&A about founder vs. being an employee and what it means going back to being an individual contributor.

In Europe, I see that it is hardly possible; if you have been a founder, firms think you aren’t loyal. Sad but true.

Back in the day when I was applying to programmer jobs I used the Joel Test, 12 yes/no questions, to determine if I want to work at a place. This article is an expansion on it.