Links I like (in no particular order)

The Recurse Center

The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.

Sam Rose

Personal website of Sam Rose.

The Parable of the Two Programmers

A classic anecdote about skill vs. experience in programming.

Fly.io

News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly

Explained from First Principles

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

The Placeholder Girlfriend

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

3Blue1Brown

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

Create an advanced search engine with PostgreSQL

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 Luddite

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

Why aren't smart people happier?

A new way to think about brainpower.

Email explained from first principles

Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.

Magnitudes of exploration. | Irrational Exuberance

Standardizing on a given platform or technology is one of the most powerful ways to create leverage within a company: improve the tooling a bit and every engineer will get more productive. Exploration is, in the long run, an even more powerful force, with successes compounding over time. Developing an investment thesis to balance the ratios and timing of standardization and exploration is a core challenge of engineering strategy.

So you wanna de-bog yourself

What I found in the mire

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"

Excellence 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.

Benedict Evans

What matters in tech? Newsletter, essays and presentations by Benedict Evans.

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

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

Making Normal Conversations Better

some notes on an endless skill

Practical Deep Learning for Coders

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.

LLM Visualization

A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.

Jake Lazaroff

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

Diátaxis

The Diátaxis framework solves a problem of quality in technical documentation, describing an information architecture that makes it easier to create, maintain and use.

Fully Typed Web Apps

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.

How to be More Agentic

On a supposedly difficult thing

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued | Kalzumeus Software

Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers. Running total of raises negotiated due to this essay: $15M+.

Some Painful Questions We Ask Ourselves

discernment is good, discernment is hard

Indie Hackers

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

The Five Tools of Hedonic Design

Hacking the happiness treadmill

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

Pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

Andreas Kling

I like computers!

weak nuclear force

A one-day year, hunting neutrinos

An overview of Nix in practice

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

Josh Comeau

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

Stories of reaching Staff-plus engineering roles - StaffEng | StaffEng

Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles.