Links I like (in no particular order)

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.

Email explained from first principles

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

The Recurse Center

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

The Five Tools of Hedonic Design

Hacking the happiness treadmill

The Luddite

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

Josh Comeau

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

Explained from First Principles

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

Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"

Indie Hackers

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

3Blue1Brown

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

Making Normal Conversations Better

some notes on an endless skill

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

Pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

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.

Sam Rose

Personal website of Sam Rose.

Why aren't smart people happier?

A new way to think about brainpower.

How to be More Agentic

On a supposedly difficult thing

Benedict Evans

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

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.

Andreas Kling

I like computers!

An overview of Nix in practice

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

Fly.io

News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly

The Placeholder Girlfriend

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

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.

weak nuclear force

A one-day year, hunting neutrinos

Jake Lazaroff

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

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

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

The Parable of the Two Programmers

A classic anecdote about skill vs. experience in programming.

Some Painful Questions We Ask Ourselves

discernment is good, discernment is hard

So you wanna de-bog yourself

What I found in the mire

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.