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