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Tips I use to avoid burnout
Tips I use to avoid burnout:
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,939 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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Websites people say have changed their lives
I asked Kottke.org readers if they had ever seen, heard, or read something on the web that literally changed their lives. Fourteen people said no. Sixteen said
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Advice gathered from people smarter than me
No advice is good for everyone, but these are at least worth considering
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Things I Learnt in 2020
For the past six months I have been sending out a weekly newsletter with things I learnt and read during the week. Some of those trivia are not trivial at all, so I decided to share the condensed crème de la crème of the Internet in this New Year special edition.
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How to Email Busy People
I was just chatting with a friend that is a successful entrepreneur, advisor , and angel investor. He has 1700 unread emails in his inbox. 1700!
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Donald Bitzer has died
CHM remembers Fellow Don Bitzer, computer pioneer who co-invented the flat-panel plasma display and was called the "father of PLATO.”
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In defense of flat earthers (2020)
The first time I heard about Flat Earthers, I thought the idea was a joke. Surely nobody would believe something so crazy. I didn’t think about it again for a while. Until I started seeing celebrities, including famous basketball players, claiming the world is flat The rise of this phenomenon puzzled and concerned me…
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Why write code in 2026
A bunch of reasons to write code in 2026
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One Year in San Francisco as a Software Engineer
In 2017 the company I worked for in Toronto got acquired by Yelp. The software engineers in my company (including myself) were asked to move to San Francisco. At the end of 2017 we moved, and I spent most of 2018 there. With the year coming to an end, I thought it might be a good time to reflect on my time there.
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Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead
Why the poorest people in the world spend fortunes burying their dead
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The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics (2009)
This page describes the errors that I have seen most frequently in undergraduate mathematics, the likely causes of those errors, and their remedies.
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Join the Engineering Leisure Class
Engineers earn more money than we need, and the world is full of interesting problems that don’t promise a financial return. Why are the…
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My Software North Star
Loris Cro's Blog
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After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)
Soon after I launched this blog in February 2005, I signed up for Google AdSense. My goal was to make a little money and learn about the industry from the inside. In particular, if I was going to cover the...
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Consistency is Consistently Undervalued
Transactions are mundane and commonplace. Have we forgotten why they're useful?
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The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)
Recently ASAP Science released a video called "The ONLY face cream that works! – according to science". A lot of people asked me to do a response, so here it is on YouTube (keep scrolling for the text…
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Dulce et Decorum Est (1921)
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And…
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Have you ever seen a goth downtown?
Creativity after AI
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Thomas Cochrane
in lowercase bullet points
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No need to email me about Cisco AnyConnect
My name and email address can be found in the VPN client application made by Cisco called AnyConnect. They are present there as part of the curl license, because this product - like thousands of others - uses libcurl. My name appears in many products. Apparently, people often have problems finding an appropriate…
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Lazy Expert Syndrome
We all eventually suffer from "lazy expert syndrome." The best way to snap out of it and grow is to mentor someone new to your field.
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Announcing the Second Edition of “Refactoring”
I'm finishing a new edition of my Refactoring book. Here's details and periodic memos about my work.
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I quit caffeine
Enough is enough.
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The world is run by people no smarter than you
This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing this in the PermaParty city while the world seemingly falls apart outside.…
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Cornell Ergonomics Web finds standing desks present their own issues
Sitting for more than 1 hour has been shown to induce biochemical changes in lipoprotein lipase activity (an enzyme involved in fat metabolism) and in glucose metabolism that leads to the deposit of fats in adipose tissue rather than these being metabolized by muscle, and extensive sitting also relates to heart…
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Beyond introvert vs. extrovert
This 100-year-old binary classification of human interaction holds us back. It's time to move past it.