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.

How many billions of transistors in an iPhone processor?(lemire.me)

157 points by greghn 3 years ago | 160 comments

Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)(martin.kleppmann.com)

167 points by tosh 9 months ago | 64 comments

Domain knowledge or a lack thereof (2013)(jacquesmattheij.com)

91 points by ggr2342 3 years ago | 27 comments

Why most of us won't be inventing little languages(slesinsky.org)

82 points by luu 3 years ago | 75 comments

Accounting for computer scientists (2011)(martin.kleppmann.com)

170 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 34 comments

Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence(onepercentrule.substack.com)

318 points by drcwpl 2 years ago | 81 comments

A Substack essay profiling logician Alonzo Church and his solution to the Entscheidungsproblem as a foundational contribution to computer science.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)

463 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 222 comments

Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.

On the Nature of Time(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

326 points by iamwil 2 years ago | 221 comments

Stephen Wolfram essay arguing that time is best understood computationally, as the progressive application of computational rules by the universe.

Copying is the way design works(matthewstrom.com)

658 points by innerzeal 2 years ago | 218 comments

Matthew Ström's short CC-BY-SA licensed online book arguing that copying is fundamental to how design works.

20 years working on the same software product(successfulsoftware.net)

431 points by hermitcrab 1 year ago | 149 comments

A Successful Software blog post reflecting on 20 years of developing and selling the same software product as an independent developer.