My Bookmarks (in no particular order)

Some Painful Questions We Ask Ourselves

discernment is good, discernment is hard

The Recurse Center

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

Making Normal Conversations Better

some notes on an endless skill

The Parable of the Two Programmers

A classic anecdote about skill vs. experience in programming

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

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

Jake Lazaroff's blog

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

The Five Tools of Hedonic Design

Hacking the happiness treadmill

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.

Benedict Evans

What matters in tech?

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers

Indie Hackers: Work Together to Build Profitable Online Businesses

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

Quick guide to web typography for developers

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

So you wanna de-bog yourself

What I found in the mire

samwho

Personal website of Sam Rose

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

Pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

Why aren't smart people happier?

A new way to think about brainpower

LLM Visualization

A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough

The Placeholder Girlfriend

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

An overview of Nix in practice

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

Josh W. Comeau's blog

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

How I ship projects at big tech companies

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

How to be More Agentic

On a supposedly difficult thing

Gwern

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

Xe Iaso's blog

Xe Iaso's personal website

Debits and Credits

Debits and credits are easy to understand

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

Fully Typed Web Apps

The secret to fully typed web apps is typing the boundaries

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