When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)(buttondown.com)

94 points by atan2 10 months ago | 70 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'.

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.

Tag Systems(buttondown.email)

72 points by fagnerbrack 3 years ago | 32 comments

Educational Codebases(buttondown.email)

57 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 16 comments

Why Janet?(ianthehenry.com)

344 points by ianthehenry 3 years ago | 112 comments

Ian Henry's blog post making the case for the Janet Lisp dialect as a simple, fun language for side projects, promoting his free book about it.