Standardizing on a given platform or technology is one of the most powerful ways to create leverage within a company.
A metascience post of sorts that argues we should take human capital more seriously
What I found in the mire
Personal website of Sam Rose.
Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"
An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.
A new way to think about brainpower.
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.
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.
Pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites
Hacking the happiness treadmill
A classic anecdote about skill vs. experience in programming.
some notes on an endless skill
On a supposedly difficult thing
An surface-level exploration of Nix as a technology, and what I find most useful about it.
It became real when I saw the list. When I saw the rubric.
Just a programmer trying to make a home for myself on the WWW.
discernment is good, discernment is hard
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.
A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.
Mathematics with a distinct visual perspective. Linear algebra, calculus, neural networks, topology, and more.
an unlikely person
Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers.
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
The Diátaxis framework solves a problem of quality in technical documentation, describing an information architecture that makes it easier to create, maintain and use.
I like computers!
What matters in tech? Newsletter, essays and presentations by Benedict Evans.
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
Friendly tutorials for developers. Focus on React, CSS, Animation, and more!
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
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.
Connect with developers sharing the strategies and revenue numbers behind their companies and side projects.
A one-day year, hunting neutrinos
Explained from First Principles is a technology, science, and philosophy blog for curious people.