Just a programmer trying to make a home for myself on the WWW.
80/20 guide on how to make your blog posts look pretty, for free.
A metascience post of sorts that argues we should take human capital more seriously
Connect with developers sharing the strategies and revenue numbers behind their companies and side projects.
On a supposedly difficult thing
What matters in tech? Newsletter, essays and presentations by Benedict Evans.
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
Personal website of Sam Rose.
I like computers!
discernment is good, discernment is hard
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.
Mathematics with a distinct visual perspective. Linear algebra, calculus, neural networks, topology, and more.
an unlikely person
Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers.
some notes on an endless skill
The main thing that makes end-to-end type safety difficult is simple: boundaries. The secret to fully typed web apps is typing the boundaries.
An surface-level exploration of Nix as a technology, and what I find most useful about it.
It became real when I saw the list. When I saw the rubric.
A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.
Hacking the happiness treadmill
PostgreSQL provides the necessary building blocks for you to combine and create your own search engine for full-text search. Let's see how far we can take it.
A new way to think about brainpower.
Pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites
A classic anecdote about skill vs. experience in programming.
An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.
This blog is intended to be a place to share ideas and results that are too weird, incomplete, or off-topic to turn into an academic paper, but that I think may be important. Let me know what you think! Contact links to the left.
Explained from First Principles is a technology, science, and philosophy blog for curious people.
A one-day year, hunting neutrinos
A free course designed for people with some coding experience, who want to learn how to apply deep learning and machine learning to practical problems.
Friendly tutorials for developers. Focus on React, CSS, Animation, and more!
Once you get used to thinking in rems for font sizing, you'll find that it's easy to express familiar powers of two. But for other values, you may find it helpful to use the 62.5% font size trick.
Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"
Standardizing on a given platform or technology is one of the most powerful ways to create leverage within a company.
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
The Diátaxis framework solves a problem of quality in technical documentation, describing an information architecture that makes it easier to create, maintain and use.
What I found in the mire
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.