A classic anecdote about skill vs. experience in programming
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....
80/20 guide on how to make your blog posts look pretty
Explained from First Principles is a technology, science, and philosophy blog for curious people
A self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City
Pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites
Debits and credits are easy to understand
some notes on an endless skill
Connect with developers sharing the strategies and revenue numbers behind their companies and side projects
Mathematics with a distinct visual perspective. Linear algebra, calculus, neural networks, topology, and more
It became real when I saw the list. When I saw the rubric
I like computers!
What matters in tech?
Just a programmer trying to make a home for myself on the WWW
an unlikely person
discernment is good, discernment is hard
Personal website of Sam Rose
The secret to fully typed web apps is typing the boundaries
A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough
What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project
Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles
Personal website of Gwern Branwen (writer, self-experimenter, and programmer)
An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not
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.
Friendly tutorials for developers. Focus on React, CSS, Animation, and more!
Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers
What I found in the mire
A metascience post of sorts that argues we should take human capital more seriously
A new way to think about brainpower
On a supposedly difficult thing
Hacking the happiness treadmill
An surface-level exploration of Nix as a technology, and what I find most useful about it