Accessible open textbooks in math-heavy disciplines(richardzach.org)

216 points by volemo 1 year ago | 70 comments

LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features(manualdousuario.net)

556 points by rpgbr 1 month ago | 180 comments

An article reporting that LibreOffice hit record download numbers after stating it includes no AI features; the page returned a 500 server error.

Bitsummit 2023: Steam Decks everywhere, no VR, and impressive indie games(boilingsteam.com)

142 points by ekianjo 3 years ago | 152 comments

Reddit just auto removed my comment with a link to Lemmy.ml(programming.dev)

58 points by choult 3 years ago | 8 comments

Heathkit(shop.heathkit.com)

207 points by hypertexthero 3 years ago | 75 comments

Books for Game Developers(mrelusive.com)

162 points by Decabytes 3 years ago | 50 comments

Writing summaries is more important than reading more books(andreasfragner.com)

350 points by 42point2 3 years ago | 152 comments

Andreas Fragner's blog post arguing that writing summaries of good books yields more comprehension than reading more books.

Portable EPUBs(willcrichton.net)

551 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 213 comments

Will Crichton's essay arguing PDF limits modern documents and proposing portable EPUBs as an HTML-based alternative, shown in a prototype EPUB reader.

Do your own writing(alexhwoods.com)

690 points by karimf 7 months ago | 222 comments

Blog post by Alex Woods arguing against using LLMs to write documents and essays, since writing is a way to think and build trust.

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore(danluu.com)

592 points by Jach 2 months ago | 442 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing that LLM coding agents make specialized performance optimization cheap, illustrated with optimizing a regex engine for specific workloads.

Some things just take time(lucumr.pocoo.org)

788 points by vaylian 7 months ago | 250 comments

Blog essay by Armin Ronacher arguing that some valuable things, like mature trees or established software and communities, can only be achieved through time.

Cognitive load is what matters(github.com)

1392 points by nromiun 1 year ago | 488 comments

GitHub repository by zakirullin containing an essay arguing that reducing cognitive load is what matters most in software development, with translations.