My Bookmarks (in no particular order)

How to be More Agentic

On a supposedly difficult thing

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.

The Parable of the Two Programmers

A classic anecdote about skill vs. experience in programming

Fully Typed Web Apps

The secret to fully typed web apps is typing the boundaries

So you wanna de-bog yourself

What I found in the mire

Indie Hackers: Work Together to Build Profitable Online Businesses

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

Some Painful Questions We Ask Ourselves

discernment is good, discernment is hard

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

Why aren't smart people happier?

A new way to think about brainpower

Quick guide to web typography for developers

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

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers

Explained from First Principles

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

Benedict Evans

What matters in tech?

The Five Tools of Hedonic Design

Hacking the happiness treadmill

An overview of Nix in practice

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

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....

Josh W. Comeau's blog

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

Debits and Credits

Debits and credits are easy to understand

The Placeholder Girlfriend

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

Making Normal Conversations Better

some notes on an endless skill

LLM Visualization

A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

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

The Recurse Center

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

Gwern

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

How I ship projects at big tech companies

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

samwho

Personal website of Sam Rose

Xe Iaso's blog

Xe Iaso's personal website

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

Pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

3Blue1Brown

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

Jake Lazaroff's blog

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