Is Mars Habitable? (1907)(people.wku.edu)
54 points by kimmk | 15 comments
First screen, captured .
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How to Study Mathematics (2017)(math.uh.edu)
219 points by ayoisaiah | 88 comments
Writing HTML in HTML (2019)(ankarstrom.se)
48 points by blakewatson | 36 comments
Guess I'm a rationalist now(scottaaronson.blog)
287 points by nsoonhui | 869 comments
The Best Essay(paulgraham.com)
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Procrastination is connected to perfectionism(solvingprocrastination.com)
581 points by EndXA | 189 comments
An article on the Solving Procrastination site explaining how perfectionism and procrastination are connected and how to address them.
Permutation City (1994)(gregegan.net)
373 points by RafelMri | 184 comments
Greg Egan's official page for his 1994 science fiction novel Permutation City, with a synopsis and links to an excerpt and the Dust Theory FAQ.
How close can pure functional programming get to C?(rtfeldman.com)
268 points by stmonty | 94 comments
Richard Feldman's blog post benchmarking roc-deflate, a pure Roc DEFLATE library, against C's libdeflate, finding it under 10% slower, and describing Roc-specific optimizations.
So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)
369 points by UglyToad | 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.
I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)
705 points by jamesrandall | 556 comments
Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.
The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)(jofreeman.com)
365 points by yamrzou | 144 comments
Jo Freeman's 1970 essay "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" arguing that leaderless groups develop hidden informal elites, hosted on her personal site.