A classic anecdote about skill vs. experience in programming.
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.
On a supposedly difficult thing
The Diátaxis framework solves a problem of quality in technical documentation, describing an information architecture that makes it easier to create, maintain and use.
A new way to think about brainpower.
It became real when I saw the list. When I saw the rubric.
Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"
Mathematics with a distinct visual perspective. Linear algebra, calculus, neural networks, topology, and more.
What matters in tech? Newsletter, essays and presentations by Benedict Evans.
An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.
Pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites
some notes on an endless skill
I like computers!
Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers.
Explained from First Principles is a technology, science, and philosophy blog for curious people.
UPDATE: I’ve added a short section on the topic of sponsorship. I think that there’s a lot of institutional knowledge in our field, especially about what makes for a productive engineer. But while there are a good deal of books in the management field about “expert” roles and responsibilities of non-technical individual contributors, I don’t…
discernment is good, discernment is hard
A free course designed for people with some coding experience, who want to learn how to apply deep learning and machine learning to practical problems.
What I found in the mire
Hacking the happiness treadmill
A one-day year, hunting neutrinos
A metascience post of sorts that argues we should take human capital more seriously
Just a programmer trying to make a home for myself on the WWW.
an unlikely person
PostgreSQL provides the necessary building blocks for you to combine and create your own search engine for full-text search. Let's see how far we can take it.
The main thing that makes end-to-end type safety difficult is simple: boundaries. 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.
An surface-level exploration of Nix as a technology, and what I find most useful about it.
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
Personal website of Sam Rose.
Standardizing on a given platform or technology is one of the most powerful ways to create leverage within a company.
Friendly tutorials for developers. Focus on React, CSS, Animation, and more!