Julia Evans

Making Hard Things Easy

New talk: Making Hard Things Easy

Some tiny personal programs I've written

Build Impossible Programs

Some tactics for writing in public

Patterns in Confusing Explanations

Why is DNS still hard to learn?

Learning DNS in 10 Years

New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years

How to teach yourself hard things

Working remotely, 4 years in

Things that used to be hard and are now easy

Getting things done

How to ask good questions

So you want to be a wizard

How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)

How to answer questions in a helpful way

Some blogging myths

Why bugs might feel “impossible”

Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible"

Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014)

Fear makes you a worse programmer

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

Blog about what you've struggled with

How to teach technical concepts with cartoons

Taking a year to explain computer things

Questions to help people decide what to learn

Pages that didn't make it into “How DNS Works”

Pages that didn't make it into "How DNS Works"

How and why I made a zine

How (and why) I made a zine

Celebrate tiny learning milestones

How to get useful answers to your questions