Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers. Running total of raises negotiated due to this essay: $15M+.
Personal website of Sam Rose.
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.
discernment is good, discernment is hard
What matters in tech? Newsletter, essays and presentations by Benedict Evans.
Explained from First Principles is a technology, science, and philosophy blog for curious people.
Friendly tutorials for developers. Focus on React, CSS, Animation, and more!
A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
Connect with developers sharing the strategies and revenue numbers behind their companies and side projects.
some notes on an endless skill
an unlikely person
What I found in the mire
Pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites
Hacking the happiness treadmill
The Diátaxis framework solves a problem of quality in technical documentation, describing an information architecture that makes it easier to create, maintain and use.
On a supposedly difficult thing
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
I like computers!
Mathematics with a distinct visual perspective. Linear algebra, calculus, neural networks, topology, and more.
An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"
A metascience post of sorts that argues we should take human capital more seriously
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.
An surface-level exploration of Nix as a technology, and what I find most useful about it.
Standardizing on a given platform or technology is one of the most powerful ways to create leverage within a company: improve the tooling a bit and every engineer will get more productive. Exploration is, in the long run, an even more powerful force, with successes compounding over time. Developing an investment thesis to balance the ratios and timing of standardization and exploration is a core challenge of engineering strategy.
It became real when I saw the list. When I saw the rubric.
A new way to think about brainpower.
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.
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.
Just a programmer trying to make a home for myself on the WWW.
A one-day year, hunting neutrinos
A classic anecdote about skill vs. experience in programming.
Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles.