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Blue Ridge Ruby 2026 - 5 ways to invest in yourself for the long haul by Thomas Cannon

A structured course built from personal study notes of the book Linux Basics for Hackers by OccupyTheWeb. - ahegazy0/linux-basics-for-hackers-notes

A sad look at the state of modern programming books.

As part of my ongoing updates to my personal site, I decided to add icons after all external links. Today, I wanted to show you how I did it. Let’s dig in! Why? I do a lot of linking on my site, and it’s not always obvious when a link will keep you on-site vs. take you somewhere else. Using [target="_blank"] forces links to open in a new tab or window, but this is considered an anti-pattern for accessibility reasons.

How to backup with git using machines you have at home

An interpretation of the pain points and missing features which developers face with CSS layout, based on the 2025 State of CSS survey and a mini survey I ran on social media.

Alice Ryhl from Google’s Android Rust team explains why developers love Rust, and what makes the language so powerful for building reliable software.

In the 24 hours before I started writing this post, Plausible told me joost.blog had 254 visitors. My server logs told me 536 fetches over the same window came from on-demand AI bots like ChatGPT-User and Claude-User. Those bots only fire because a human, in real time, asked an AI a question. Is the real number 254, 790, or something else? I genuinely don't know, and I think that's the more interesting story.

#seo

Meet `sibling-index()` and `sibling-count()`. Staggered cascade effect in one line of CSS without `:nth-child()` rules or JS workarounds. Works for 5 items or 5,000.

#techniques

A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.

A conversation about running a startup alone, with agents doing the work of a full engineering team

I asked Ryan to show us his daily workflow to give us a peek into the code factory. He shared a screen with 15 active threads running in Devin (at a monthly token burn of $2,000–$3,000). As Ryan explained, having a tool like Devin is the key to the code factory model. He’d started by “hand-cobbling” together a system with a Ralph Wiggum loop and a skill, but it was fragile and things broke or got out of sync. He needed a more durable system to run the cron jobs and nightly automations that keep the factory humming. He picked Devin, but ultimately choosing a direction was more important than the choice itself:

If you back up and say, How is the modern code factory happening? It’s choosing a tool that allows you to have automations and skills for jobs that you know that you need to be doing every day.

A new Perforce report finds PHP's developer base is aging out faster than it's being replenished — and AI-generated code may be making the problem worse, not better.

The survey of over 700 developers worldwide indicated that over half of the PHP users surveyed reported having more than 15 years of experience with the language, while only 15% had five years of experience or less. This points to a maturing workforce with fewer new developers entering the ecosystem, Perforce officials said.

xkcd: Results Age

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