How Hackerman would create an image just by typing 0 and 1 – deep dive into GIF(medium.com)

113 points by happybits 2 years ago | 37 comments

Building the Ultimate Pi Kubernetes Cluster: A Journey into Cloud Scalability(medium.com)

18 points by jandeboevrie 1 year ago | 3 comments

I'm more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I've built since(medium.com)

108 points by mikehall314 1 year ago | 29 comments

Was Rust Worth It?(jsoverson.medium.com)

375 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 542 comments

A Medium blog post by Jarrod Overson reflecting on whether adopting Rust for his projects was worth it after several years of use.

How Gyms Make Money (2015)(medium.com)

108 points by no_kill_i 2 years ago | 155 comments

The Entropy of Thought: Why Our Minds Gravitate Toward Divided Realities(victoranastasiu.medium.com)

13 points by victorasao 1 year ago | 2 comments

The last time my family was replaced by technology(manuel.darcemont.fr)

298 points by megalomanu 26 days ago | 582 comments

Personal essay comparing a great-great-grandfather farrier who became a mechanic with today's developers facing replacement by AI.

Your body of work thinks back at you(photoni.st)

88 points by surprisetalk 26 days ago | 15 comments

An opinion post on a personal photography blog about noticing unexpected patterns, like recurring photos of empty benches, in one's own photo archive.

The year I didn't survive(bessstillman.substack.com)

856 points by LaurenSerino 1 year ago | 220 comments

Personal essay by Bess Stillman on how her husband's death from cancer and the birth of her daughter in the same year transformed her brain, body, and sense of self.

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.

A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People(swiss-miss.com)

352 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 104 comments

A personal essay on the Swissmiss blog by Tina Roth Eisenberg about the transformative power of enthusiasm and people who believe in others.

Being Raised by the Internet(jimmyhmiller.github.io)

792 points by DamonHD 2 years ago | 265 comments

Personal essay by Jimmy Miller about growing up poor with an absent mother and a father with schizophrenia, and how the internet helped raise him.