My Bookmarks (in no particular order)

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

A metascience post of sorts that argues we should take human capital more seriously

Why aren't smart people happier?

A new way to think about brainpower

Making Normal Conversations Better

some notes on an endless skill

You Could Just Choose Optimism — Quarter Mile

You Could Just Choose Optimism There’s something strange and a little awe-inspiring about hearing someone ask for champagne on a two-hour domestic flight....

Xe Iaso's blog

Xe Iaso's personal website

Indie Hackers: Work Together to Build Profitable Online Businesses

Connect with developers sharing the strategies and revenue numbers behind their companies and side projects

Exellence is a habit but so is failure

We often hear that making small incremental improvements every day can lead to great things. This popular piece of advice rings true, and it’s a powerful reminder to keep pushing ourselves forward.

How I ship projects at big tech companies

What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project

The Placeholder Girlfriend

It became real when I saw the list. When I saw the rubric

The Five Tools of Hedonic Design

Hacking the happiness treadmill

The Luddite

An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not

Stories of reaching Staff-plus engineering roles

Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles

Jake Lazaroff's blog

Just a programmer trying to make a home for myself on the WWW

Debits and Credits

Debits and credits are easy to understand

The Parable of the Two Programmers

A classic anecdote about skill vs. experience in programming

How to be More Agentic

On a supposedly difficult thing

Some Painful Questions We Ask Ourselves

discernment is good, discernment is hard

So you wanna de-bog yourself

What I found in the mire

3Blue1Brown

Mathematics with a distinct visual perspective. Linear algebra, calculus, neural networks, topology, and more

Explained from First Principles

Explained from First Principles is a technology, science, and philosophy blog for curious people

LLM Visualization

A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough

Gwern

Personal website of Gwern Branwen (writer, self-experimenter, and programmer)

Quick guide to web typography for developers

80/20 guide on how to make your blog posts look pretty

samwho

Personal website of Sam Rose

An overview of Nix in practice

An surface-level exploration of Nix as a technology, and what I find most useful about it

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers

Benedict Evans

What matters in tech?

Fully Typed Web Apps

The secret to fully typed web apps is typing the boundaries

The Recurse Center

A self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

Pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

Josh W. Comeau's blog

Friendly tutorials for developers. Focus on React, CSS, Animation, and more!