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