My Bookmarks (in no particular order)

The Recurse Center

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

Indie Hackers: Work Together to Build Profitable Online Businesses

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

Jake Lazaroff's blog

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

The Parable of the Two Programmers

A classic anecdote about skill vs. experience in programming

LLM Visualization

A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough

How to be More Agentic

On a supposedly difficult thing

Benedict Evans

What matters in tech?

Debits and Credits

Debits and credits are easy to understand

So you wanna de-bog yourself

What I found in the mire

Making Normal Conversations Better

some notes on an endless skill

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....

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.

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

Pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

Stories of reaching Staff-plus engineering roles

Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles

Gwern

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

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

samwho

Personal website of Sam Rose

An overview of Nix in practice

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

3Blue1Brown

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

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

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

Why aren't smart people happier?

A new way to think about brainpower

The Luddite

An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not

The Placeholder Girlfriend

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

Fully Typed Web Apps

The secret to fully typed web apps is typing the boundaries

Explained from First Principles

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

Quick guide to web typography for developers

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

Some Painful Questions We Ask Ourselves

discernment is good, discernment is hard

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers

The Five Tools of Hedonic Design

Hacking the happiness treadmill