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I prefer rST to Markdown(buttondown.email)

320 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 379 comments

Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post arguing that reStructuredText is preferable to Markdown for writing books and documentation with Sphinx.

My patented Miracle Tonic would have prevented the CrowdStrike meltdown(buttondown.email)

7 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 2 comments

Solving a math problem with planner programming(buttondown.email)

61 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 10 comments

A brief introduction to interval arithmetic(buttondown.email)

193 points by zdw 2 years ago | 78 comments

Nondeterminism in Formal Specification(buttondown.email)

29 points by zdw 2 years ago | 2 comments

Google I/O AI announcements in 60 seconds(buttondown.email)

3 points by swyx 2 years ago | 0 comments

Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)(buttondown.email)

146 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 47 comments

Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors?(buttondown.email)

12 points by manuw 2 years ago | 1 comments

Own Your Web – Issue 11: Welcome to the IndieWeb(buttondown.email)

53 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 2 comments

Physical Properties #3(buttondown.email)

11 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 1 comments

Why the Magic?(buttondown.email)

35 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 9 comments

Was Javascript really made in 10 days?(buttondown.email)

76 points by redbell 2 years ago | 50 comments

Formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason(buttondown.email)

230 points by JNRowe 2 years ago | 67 comments

Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays(buttondown.email)

325 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 271 comments

A Computer Things newsletter post by Hillel Wayne offering career advice to early-career software developers beyond typical advice essays.

When would you ever want bubblesort?(buttondown.email)

78 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 55 comments

The Case of a Curious SQL Query(buttondown.email)

162 points by petercooper 3 years ago | 37 comments

I wish people would do historical arguments better(buttondown.email)

26 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 9 comments

Picat is my favorite new toolbox language(buttondown.email)

36 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 3 comments

Collecting and curating material is good and we should do it more(buttondown.email)

121 points by sdht0 3 years ago | 31 comments

Digging through the New York Times morgue(buttondown.email)

62 points by secondary 3 years ago | 17 comments

Thoughts about what worked in math circles(buttondown.email)

245 points by sberens 3 years ago | 35 comments

Educational Codebases(buttondown.email)

57 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 16 comments

Raku: A language for gremlins(buttondown.email)

355 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 180 comments

Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post describing the Raku programming language as a quirky language 'by gremlins, for gremlins'.

Ed Yong is leaving The Atlantic(buttondown.email)

57 points by bookofjoe 3 years ago | 34 comments

Agile is people, the rest is commentary(buttondown.email)

79 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 46 comments

The Risks of Staying Put(buttondown.email)

93 points by blueridge 3 years ago | 24 comments

The Staggering Frontiers of CSS(buttondown.email)

130 points by tambourine_man 3 years ago | 38 comments

Melange 1.0: Compile OCaml / ReasonML to JavaScript(buttondown.email)

179 points by anmonteiro90 3 years ago | 43 comments

Problems harder than NP-Complete(buttondown.email)

234 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 89 comments

The seven specification ur-languages(buttondown.email)

115 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 66 comments

In Defense of No-Code’s Potential(buttondown.email)

38 points by pgayed 3 years ago | 24 comments

Tag Systems(buttondown.email)

72 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 32 comments

Stop Building Closed Ecosystems(buttondown.email)

131 points by LinguaBrowse 3 years ago | 122 comments