(Sorry, this is out of date. I’m working on a better alternative for this.)
- 26 October 2025
- Emmett Shear on burnout 🆕
- Added Software links:
- Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing - The Old New Thing
- Laurence Tratt: Which Parsing Approach?: a review of different ways to implement parsing, and their tradeoffs
- Common Misconceptions about Compilers
- Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt. - Irrational Exuberance
- newren/git-filter-repo: Quickly rewrite git repository history
- Two articles about what coroutines are really for: Philosophy of coroutines - Simon Tatham / research!rsc: Storing Data in Control Flow
- Added Self links:
- Introduction to Internal Family Systems: a Groundbreaking Psychotherapy, Self-Therapy, Communication Method and World-View - by Maija Haavisto
- How to Be Happy - by Andrew Shade Blevins: an introduction to “the Option Method”, a kind of existential inquiry which seems interesting
- Added From Mars links:
- 10 July 2025
- Some things should be easy 🆕
- How to check if a Git repo is fully synced with a remote - add
findcommand for recursive checking
- 6 July 2025
- Added Misc links:
- If You’re So Smart, Why Can’t You Die? - Desystemize: on AI, spiky intelligence, and adversarial agents
- houmain/keymapper: A cross-platform context-aware key remapper: an easy-to-use and wildly underrated keymapping tool
- Software:
- Quick takes on the GCP public incident write-up – Surfing Complexity: an insight into (what I believe to be) great incident response mindset
- Added Misc links:
- 2 July 2025
- 1 July 2025
- Added Software links:
- How do you cut a monolith in half? — programming is terrible “Systems grow by pushing responsibilities to the edges” (also see this related article)
- Push Ifs Up And Fors Down - matklad
- Technical Debt — notes.doismellburning.co.uk - big catalog of articles about it
- Self:
- Added Software links:
- 10 May 2025
- Software: added links:
- Designing with types: Making illegal states unrepresentable
- Restyling apps at scale – Space and Meaning (or rather, how it’s not really possible)
- Why Kakoune — The quest for a better code editor (This convinced me that modal editing is good and the things I don’t like about Vim are about Vim specifically and not about modal editing in general. I now have been using Kakoune-inspired extension Dance in VS Code for several years. Also the official documentation for Vim and Kakoune lack context and are hard to learn from; they should be more like Practical Vim command workflow - Max Shen Dev.)
- Added links to “Self” section on home page:
- On emotions and attention - by Alexander Vezhnevets
- How to do hard things - David R. MacIver a.k.a. the “The Fully General System For Learning To Do Hard Things”
- Goodhart’s Law Isn’t as Useful as You Might Think - Commoncog (better titled as “how to solve Goodhart’s Law”)
- Software: added links:
- 29 April 2025
- What is an object / linker / toolchain / …? (Glossary of compilation terms): adjusted a lot of the definitions in response to feedback.
- 26 April 2025
- 20 April 2025
- 12 April 2025
- Added Sympathetic Opposition to my favourite blogs
- Added WorkFlowy referral link
- Added new Self and Misc sections to the home page, with these links:
- Give up: a meditation technique - by Sasha Chapin
- How to Be an Expert Fear-Driven Person - by Sasha Chapin
- The Buddha’s Teachings: An Introduction, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
- Articles - Shinzen Young - Shinzen’s various PDFs about meditation
- DreymaR’s Big Bag of Kbd Tricks - THE BIG BAG THEORY - worth exploring if only for Extend
- 25 March 2025 - From Mars: a personal index of links about maleness - Added new links:
- 25 March 2025 - Software -
Added new links:
- The one ring problem: abstraction and our quest for power - Ted Kaminski
- doismellburning’s collections of resources on incidents
- Schema migrations and avoiding downtime - quanttype (didn’t even realise this could be an issue)
- dbmate: A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool
- Sunsetting Cursed Terminal Emulation - Arcan
- 26 February 2025 - Software - Added 2 links (modules, auth)
- 26 February 2025 - Recent changes 🆕
- 15 February 2025 - Software - Created a links section for good external articles and resources
- 14 February 2025 - Flirting with both hearts 🆕
- 5 February 2025 - Review: Worm, a web serial about superheroes 🆕
- 5 February 2025 - Genderless men - Major rewrite
- 4 February 2025 - Software 🆕 - (Created dedicated topic page)
- 4 February 2025 - Re-designed the home page