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Worse Is Better
Richard P. Gabriel's classic 1991 essay on why simple, imperfect software often beats elegant design, a foundational rea…
Writer's Digest
A veteran magazine for working and aspiring writers offering craft advice, market listings, and interviews about the fic…
Writing a Small Software Renderer
A clear walkthrough of how a basic software rasterizer works, building triangle drawing, depth buffering and shading fro…
Writing Arabic in English
An essay on building a phonetic Arabic keyboard that lets you type Arabic with English keys by sound, using capitals for…
Writing Slowly
A reflective post from the Writing Slowly blog on Walter Benjamin and the obsolete book, touching on footnotes, hyperlin…
Writing Well Handbook
Julian Shapiro's free handbook on writing well, covering how to find ideas worth writing about, craft an intro that hook…
XEM WebGL Guide
A tutorial with resources for WebGL raymarching and distance functions, showing how to render 3D shapes from pure math i…
Yes, we did discover the Higgs
A physicist answers a skeptical essay claiming the Higgs discovery never took place, explaining how statistics and evide…
Yield Curve Inversion History
A data-driven history of every 2s10s yield curve inversion since 1976, with timing, depth, and the lead time before NBER…
You Are How You Act
An essay setting Rousseau's inner self against Hume's behaviorism to argue that you are the sum of your actions rather t…
You Are Not Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites
A personal essay on believing you were bad at math, and how gaps in earlier fundamentals, not ability, were the real obs…
Your Language Brain Matters More for Learning to Code
A science article on research showing that language aptitude predicts how well people learn to code better than math ski…
You're a Slow Thinker. Now What?
A personal essay on accepting a slow, deliberate way of thinking, with practical ideas for leaning into it in a world th…
Zen Habits
Leo Babauta's minimalist blog on building habits, mindfulness, simplicity, and intentional living.
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