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Cursor rocks as LLM agent, but sucks as IDE. To the point that its rough edges and mediocre UX sometimes outweigh or severely cap benefits that LLMs bring to the table. Jetbrains family of IDEs is on the opposite side…

Do you feel like SWE title has been devalued a lot lately? Does it look to you that many of today's senior SWE would barely pass middle bar 10 years ago? With erosion of junior (and effectively middle) titles these days…

Similar questions pop up here regularly. This one is with certain angle. Any software engineers working or seriously playing with modern llm and generative models — please share your personal top 5 resources that you…

Based on previous history of hypes and bubbles (bitcoin, gpt etc) — what would be the next big deal is likely already happening now under most radars in its early form. I’m curious what is it? What is the next thing…

There has been plenty of requests for you favorite podcasters, bloggers, youtubers etc. What I want to emphasize here is that if you know any youtubers/podcasters with at least 10 years of decent production hands-on…

Mostly addressed to SaaS solopreneurs — how do you monitor your basic app health metrics and check logs and get notified about critical issues _without_ all the hassle and overhead involved in setting up and maintaining…

1. Money is an equivalent of value that people trade with each other. 2. Value is something to be produced by people, i.e. something that requires work to be done (even if by pumping oil, or setting up AI systems, or…

Is there any DIY kit that guides you from zero to building your first CPU out of basic logical units? Ideally something that would accompany "Code" book by Petzold? All DIY kits I see on the market are already on top of…

It strikes me that in such a sensitive and profitable market as password protection there is just a handful of products (1password, bitearden, keepass…) And all of them have some issues and problems (even in the…

I see tons of "Build %cool_tech_name% yourself in %cool_language%" material on the internet. But struggle to find anything for those who want to create their own Photoshop graphics editor. Where can I find good…

Which training resources, books, courses etc would you recommend to an experienced backend developer with zero prior mobile experience who wants to develop a hi quality MVP app for recent iOS asap? On par with time is…

The current pay ladder in all companies that I worked and know second hand of has a clear ceiling for software developers. Sometimes high (faang), sometimes not. But essentially it’s non linear and after first couple of…

As a solopreneur - what resource, course do you recommend to learn marketing in a lean way? To achieve 80% of effect by 20% of efforts as quickly as possible?

Dear fellow concentration skills challenged people. I definitely have all the typical ADHD symptoms you can find in literature. They all look way less acute than many of stories you find on HN. Though I really struggle…

I wonder what new data structures were created to leverage the recent advances in CPU performance and architecture? Any interesting new research to follow in this area? It can't be that we're just speeding up same…

To avoid unnecessary disputes by "Indie-Hacking Solopreneurship" (IHS) I specifically mean building tech (software) based products (SaaS, apps, APIs and anything in between) alone (or in a tiny team of peers) with an…

Which top 2 books you you always remember when someone asks you about books that taught you to think. Not told your exciting stories about thinking (like those fancy NYT bestsellers), but actually pushed your own…

I am the moment in my life where I don’t feel connected to my inner voice anymore. That one, that pushes you to exploring the world or doing all those crazy and silly things when you’re a kid. The same one which helps…

Being a foreigner in a new country and starting a new job I suddenly realized that my verbal communication lags far behind my writing skills. English is not my native language, which makes my challenge of improving it…

I have 15+ years of software engineering experience. As an IC in real world scenarios on average I tend to outperform many of my peers in delivering features, both in dev velocity and the quality of code. But. My mind…

When you grow up in a working class family building a business does not come naturally. You don’t see it everyday, you don’t feel it from the inside. You don’t form subconscious knowledge of how it is done. Then great…

I wonder why is it such a pain to rent a place longterm in all countries I know of — you waste about a month of your time and almost sell your soul in infinite negotiations and paperwork for a place. Why isn’t it even…

I spent many years learning about different ways and schools of meditation. Not professionally but as one of hobbies constantly running in the background. And I still don’t get it. Honestly It still looks like a big…

Happy to hear examples of a job you’re currently at or recently found that you find meaningful and satisfying. By itself, not because of compensation. Please name a company or at least specific market niche + geo or…