This is another subjective and incomplete selection of relevant, high-quality posts, a follow-up to my personal DEV reading lists from 2023 and 2021/2022 featuring mostly DEV and some other sources, including some of my old bookmarks that I think are still worth reading, and new articles from 2024, 2025, and beyond.
Updated reading list 2024 - 2025 (and beyond) (WIP)
This document will be updated occasionally until the end of 2026, focusing on content published or updated since 2024, with a focus on DevUX, AI, and IndieWeb.
Table of Contents
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Authentic Content vs. Spam and AI Hallucinations
- Echoes of the Past - Tech is Still Not Equal for All
- About the Dead Internet Theory and AI
- Your AI Agent isn't an Engineer
- Tunnel Syndrome: AI's biggest weakness?
- TODO: AI Intoxication / Internetrauschen
- Rant about AI
- Human Writing in the Age of AI
- Letter in the Ocean: Why should we keep writing? AI vs. human generated posts
- Why you should not be using AI as a writing assistant
- LLMs will lie forever
- Why "AI" is the new "sustainable"
- Open Source AI Content Detector APP to separate COMPLETELY AI vs HUMAN generated posts: 🤖 vs 🧑
- ChatGPT Drinks 500ml of Water Every Time You Talk to It but Why...??
- Stop Gaslighting Me - AI Won't Replace Human Devs Anytime Soon
Productivity, Tools and Strategies
- How I learned to code with my voice
- Attending Tech Conferences With a Toddler: A DevRel Mom’s Story
- Breaking into Tech at Midlife: A Nigerian’s Career Transition Story
- Dangers of AI coding tools
- State of generative AI in Software Development: The reality check!
- AI Tools: Are We Replacing Skills or Enhancing Them? (and at what cost)
- Code, Context, and AI: Why Human Developers Still Matter
- It’s Not A.I. — Junior Developers Have Always Struggled to Code
- Common Ground: A Framework for Human-AI Collaboration
- Designer-Developer Collaboration: 2024 Survey Results
- My notes on Make Haste Slowly
- 80% of Software Engineers Fail to Become Senior Developers — And Here’s Why
- Three Simple Rules to Solve Unsolvable Organizational Problems
Coding, Web Design, and Web Development
Frontend Design, Usability, Accessibility, CSS
- 5 Essential HTML and CSS Tricks to Ditch JavaScript
- Future of CSS: Select styling without the hacks
- CSS Just Changed Forever🤔: 7 Revolutionary Features You Need to Know
- Stop Fighting RTL Layouts: Use CSS Logical Properties for Better Design
- CSS is Emotional: The Box Model of Personal Space
- Rethinking CSS in JS
- Is Your CSS Logical?
Frontend Logic, TypeScript, JavaScript
- trimMiddle() - the missing String trim method
- Accessible components: Pagination
- Vanilla JS carousel that is accessible, swipeable, infinite-scrolling, and autoplaying
- Why the Latest JavaScript Frameworks Are a Waste of Time
- Why Does Everyone Hate React?
- Why I Decided to Stop Working with React.js in 2025
- 🙅 Why Hating TypeScript in 2024 Doesn't Make Sense
- Should web designers learn JavaScript or CSS?
Backend and other Programming Topics
- Alphanumeric / Natural sort in MySQL - 30 years and we still can't do this? 😤
- The Myth of GraphQL
- Why Rewriting Everything in Rust Won’t Solve All Your Problems
Linux and other Free and Open-Source Software
- Rely less on Third-Party Services
- Reviving a 2015 MacBook Air with Ubuntu: A Step-by-Step Guide to Breathe New Life into Your Old Mac
Other Excerpts from my DEV Reading List
- How to Stay and Grow in Tech (especially if you're a minority)
- 📹 An Awesome List of #WomenInTech on Youtube
Where to find your own Reading List on DEV.to
dev.to/readinglist is your full reading list, if you're a logged-in DEV member.
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