Indeed, these confusions are widespread. Even worse, they generally lead you away from actual productivity.

Newer language really have a hard time moving up in this ranking. Lots of inertia all around.

This is indeed a good thing to hide dependencies behind interfaces when it makes sense.

What's worse than a compiler bug? A processor one... very interesting deep dive in this particularly nasty one.

Interesting look at the challenges ahead for the fediverse. Not easy since some of this is cultural clash, some of it is technical and solvable though.

I think I'd have gone further in the past for such a thought experiment... still if you wonder why people are fighting for digital freedom, here is why.

Ever wonder how floppy disks worked? Here is your chance to find out, good reference.

A good proof that it's still possible to innovate with interesting performance gains for rather mundane tasks. If you're into calendars this is an interesting read.

A good reminder that you better measure the right thing... otherwise you might consider someone as unproductive while he has in fact a large impact.

Interesting and unfortunate security issue... This is admittedly a somewhat unusual setup though, but to be kept in mind I think.

First time I hear about this application. It seems really nice, I'm taking it for a spin. Not sure I'll use it to replace OsmAnd just yet. That said it's UX seems better than OsmAnd so far.

I'd take the more stack related side of this article with a pinch of salt. It seems a bit too specific to the company behind the story. The rest of the article rings true and spot on though.

Now this is actually an interesting and good use of the latest trend in large language models. You can simulate difficult conversations, getting more experience there can help.

Are we surprised? Not at all...

USENET lives! Another revival coming?

Indeed, at this point it's not that people don't want to switch. Very often they just don't have a choice.

Good list of advices, I regularly see people failing because of fundamental things like this... despite explaining my expectations first. So I'd add: listen to what the interviewer says about how he's going to assess you.

Interesting evolution... looks like people will all go back to some chat system? It'll be the 90's all over again? Maybe IRC will make a comeback? :-)

The level of details these techniques are giving now... this is very impressive.

And now the part two, with more warnings about what you measure. Also proposes a few ideas toward the end.