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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,944 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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The Beauty of Roundabouts
I have a weird soft spot for roundabouts. Maybe because I'm a software engineer and the roundabout strikes me as the simple, elegant solution while the traffic light intersection is the ad-hoc, over-engineered mess.
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The Creepiest Cycling Condition: Shermer’s Neck
We’re all susceptible to what our bodies tell us. When there’s a strange pain or sickness, our bodies are hinting at us that there should be something
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Flight Attendants and Covid-19
The coronavirus has pretty much turned the aviation industry upside down and taken it on its wildest ride ever. No one could have ever predicted a pandemic of this proportion to have this kind of f…
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The benefits of not belonging
Growing up, I never felt like I fit in.
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Why Is Everyone So Boring?
Upon seeing the adult world in detail, teens often lament “But it’s all so boring!” And in a standard trope of fiction, a spark of art infuses life, energy, and vitality into dull adults whose lives have lost all meaning.
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Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco
Not long ago an academic named Richard Florida made a small ruckus by scientifically proving that the San Francisco Bay Area (along with L...
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There was a time when search engines were a thing, and it seems they still are
There was a time when search engines were a thing. And it seems they still are
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An interview with Steve Wozniak by Jessica Livingston cured my AI anxiety
Note: there's no hidden knowledge contained in this post, it's just a reflection on how reading someone's reaction to an analogous situation...
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Valentine's Day Special: Bye Bye Tinder, Flirting in the Support Channel
... felt like a good idea for many of our male users as soon as they saw the photo of our support staff member for the first time.
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What's Wrong with Students?
Former philosophy professor and successful humorist Dennis Fried sent me some poignant comments on my piece in The Atlantic. Reprinted with Fried’s permission. Dear Dr. Caplan, I just read your article in Atlantic magazine and was blown away by the brutal honesty displayed there, especially coming from someone whose…
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Don’t worry that your job is pointless
Software engineer and consultant with >15 years experience. Specializing in product engineering, design systems, and full-stack web development with React and TypeScript.
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Advice for ambitious 19 year olds (2013)
“I’m an ambitious 19 year old, what should I do?” I get asked this question fairly often, and I now have a lot of data on what works, so I thought I’d share my response. Usually, people are...
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In Defense of Inclusionism (2009-18)
Iron Law of Bureaucracy: the downwards deletionism spiral discourages contribution and is how Wikipedia will die.
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Losing Signal
Losing Signal par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Writing HTML by hand
Behind the scenes - how I'm making redblobgames.com - interactive explanations of game development algorithms and math
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Happiness and the Art of Being (2012)
Error on Requested Web Page: The teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Co-working with friends over video in virtual gather.town office
Starting March 2021, I’ve been spending the majority of my working time co-working with my friends over video in my virtual gather.town office. The sessions are usually pre-scheduled, last 2-16 hours, and we do brief check-ins every 30 minutes. Most people I co-worked with told me that they really enjoyed the…
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Reflections on Sudoku, or the Impossibility of Systematizing Thought
I reflect on the Entscheidungsproblem how it relates to Sudoku solvers. It's a little weird. .
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The Brain Sandwich
The brain sandwich is a practical AI coding workflow: understand the problem, let an agent help, then verify and explain its work before sharing it.
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You Want Technology with Warts
I normally skip presentations because I prefer reading, but Building the Hundred-Year Web Service (YouTube) was worth the time. 1 1 Note that despite “htmx” featuring in the title, very little of the presentation is actually about htmx. It is about choosing and using technology in such a way that it won’t require…
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