In which I talk about why meta build systems are forever cursed to remain hobbled throughout eternity.

Another month and another C3 0.5.x release (read the 0.5.4 announcement here), grab it here: https…

C3 is a simple, fast, and modern programming language.

When you’re driving a car down a road, you might get a bit stuffy and decide to roll your windows down. The air will flow in, the wind will get louder, and the sensation of moving will intensify. Your engine will start working a bit harder–and louder–to maintain the same speed. Every sensation will tell you that you’re moving faster, but lowering the window has increased your car’s air resistance, and you’re actually going slower.

Looking back at a bunch of toy electronics that may have latently inspired the tech that we use today. Might as well hook ’em young.

Photo by Om Malik I have become a big fan of vintage fountain pens. When I saw this lovely Ebonized Pearl WASP Clipper, I immediately fell in love with it. This is quite a rare find. Most collector…

Paul Scanlon argues for the return of the manual install guide, citing Astro as an example. Forget 'ship it' culture, he advises, and you'll win in the end.

As AI models become more prevalent, even old data is being given new purpose, so companies need to evaluate data critically and determine what they really need to retain.

Michael Lindon, Chris Sanden, Vache Shirikian, Yanjun Liu, Minal Mishra, Martin Tingley

Observability is a bit of a hot topic, and while it’s increasingly been playing a larger role in engineering strategy, I think the way it’s presented can often...

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Speedrunning a11y in SwiftUI

An introduction to SWAR using the example of binary Hamming weight calculations

In this week’s Installer: the Apple Car, a Dyson vacuum, Evernote’s back, and more.

As quiet as it’s kept, Fly.io is creeping up on PaaS providers and the Big 3, amassing a large base of developers and forming strategic partnerships.

Observability in decentralized applications poses several unique challenges that need to be resolved and traditional solutions might not be sufficient.

In this post we will cover the pros and cons of single-tenancy architecture, and how single-tenancy versus multi-tenancy is not a binary choice.

A VC-backed startup’s push for growth left little time for actual engineering

Hey there! I'm Nat Bennett, and you're reading Simpler Machines, a weekly letter about making software with other people. Thought I'd try something a little bit different this week for the header image – usually I use Unsplash if I use something at all, so I can get an image that

A popular architectural philosophy in the Rails space is (or was) to embrace the philosophy that "Rails is your not your application". In this post I explore how this was hard to get right in Rails - but in Phoenix it's more than easy.

Gemba (現場) is the Japanese term for "actual place," often used for the shop floor or any place where value-creating work actually occurs.

I’m finally trying to read through some Toyota-related books to get a better understanding of the lean movement. Not too long ago, I read Sheigo Shingo’s Non-Stock Production: The Shing…

NVDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently made very contraversial remarks : "Over the course of the last 10 years, 15 years, almost everybody who sits...

I decided to make a time zone converter. It had seemed like an easy project, but I was horribly mistaken

Some of you know that I work in the agency business — how that translates to my technical experience is that I used to work on many highly different

A Seafaring Metaphor for Software Architects