Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
8 minutes by Nikita Prokopov

Somehow we forgot how to center rectangles and must find our way back.

WorkOS: enterprise-grade auth for modern SaaS apps
sponsored by WorkOS

WorkOS supports both the foundational auth as well as complex enterprise features like single sign-on (SSO). It provides flexible and easy-to-use APIs, helping companies like Vercel, Loom, and Webflow become Enterprise Ready. WorkOS also features the Admin Portal that allows you to onboard IT teams to SSO in minutes. Best of all, WorkOS User Management is free up to 1 million MAUs.

What makes concurrency so hard?
7 minutes by Hillel Wayne

Is it something about human brains, or something about the problem domain?

How SMS Fraud Works and How to Guard Against It
6 minutes by Apurva Chitnis

With Twitter disabling text message two-factor authentication, I thought it’d be fun to do a deep-dive into how SMS fraud works and how app developers can guard against it.

The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages
4 minutes by Nicole Tietz

While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices for statement terminators. . is very appealing, or !. Ultimately, I might make the "boring" choice of using either ; or significant whitespace.

A Feat of Engineering
2 minutes by Thorsten Ball

Whenever I talk with programmer friends about Apple I try to sneak the following story in. Usually I start with “did you know that Apple…?” and end by leaning back in the chair, my index finger pointing at the table, and me saying “… now that’s engineering.”