Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software

 https://cerebralab.com/Imaginary_Problems_Are_the_Root_of_Bad_Software

Amen! One of the previous engineers where I once worked had spent lots and lots of time solving problems that didn't actually exist. 

What if writing tests was a joyful experience?

 https://blog.janestreet.com/the-joy-of-expect-tests/

an interesting take on tests. Is it still useful?

Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies

 https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-building/

why software churn kills software companies: oral lore. Can documentation help? 

Should you build in-house or buy a solution?

 https://zapier.com/blog/build-vs-buy/

The ancient buy-vs-build decision with some no-code updating. 

This simple yet powerful desktop application allows you to run PHP code and quickly try out new ideas – all within the context of your application.

 https://tinkerwell.app/

A scratch-your-own-itch development tool for Laravel. 

Announcing Flutter 2

 https://developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/announcing-flutter-2.html

I guess Flutter's gained enough traction to get an update. 

Costly Mistakes: Why We Had to Abandon Firebase

 https://js.plainenglish.io/costly-mistakes-why-we-had-to-abandoned-firebase-b89930c10d92

Dare I say? They got burned by firebase.

Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases

 https://rakyll.medium.com/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78

Some rather subtle points here

If not SPAs, What?

 https://macwright.com/2020/10/28/if-not-spas.html

Various shades in between static pages and native SPAs

SOLID in PHP

 https://dev.to/evrtrabajo/solid-in-php-d8e

good overview of how SOLID principles work in PHP

23 Alternative Career Paths that Software Developers Can Grow Into

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/alternative-career-paths/
There's more jobs than just coding

Create Full-Fledged Web Apps Visually

https://uibakery.io/
Well, the front-end, anyway. 

10 Extraordinary GitHub Repos for All Developers

https://medium.com/better-programming/10-extraordinary-github-repos-for-all-developers-939cdeb28ad0
A mixed bag of mostly interesting GitHub resources.

Cloud & Desktop IDE Platform

https://theia-ide.org/
A browser-based IDE kinda like Eclipse that runs VSCode plugins

Favorite low-coding tools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786853
Some I'd never heard of.

The 25 best programming books of all-time. A data-backed answer

https://www.daolf.com/posts/best-programming-books/
Mostly familiar faces

Online IDE, editor, compiler

https://repl.it/
cloud-based development platform. needs a case study or something compelling

FizzBuzz 2.0: Pragmatic Programming Questions for Software Engineers

https://triplebyte.com/blog/fizzbuzz-2-0-pragmatic-programming-questions-for-software-engineers
five simple multiple-choice questions to separate wheat from chaff

FizzBuzz 2.0: Pragmatic Programming Questions for Software Engineers

https://triplebyte.com/blog/fizzbuzz-2-0-pragmatic-programming-questions-for-software-engineers
are you a software engineer? 5 easy questions

Neutralinojs Portable and lightweight cross platform application development framework.

https://neutralino.js.org/
For Mac, Linux and Windows desktop apps.