Nothing is more motivating than finding out that someone is wrong on the Internet, and indeed, much of my content is a response to feeling that exact feeling. Here is a little garden of those posts.
Article: More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened? by Andrew Van Dam
Response: No, Programming Jobs Haven’t Dropped 25%
Article: A call to action: Think seriously about “safety”; then do something sensible about it by Bjarne Stroustrup
Response: My Reaction to Dr. Stroustrup’s Recent Memory Safety Comments
Article: Move, Simply by Herb Sutter
Response: C++ Move Semantics Considered Harmful (Rust is better)
Article: SpaceX IPO Makes Elon Musk World’s First Trillionaire (Bloomberg)
Response: People Think Elon Musk Has a Trillion Dollars
Article: “Code itself will go away in favor of just making the binary directly.” by Elon Musk
Response: Programming Languages and Type Safety in the Era of LLMs