How to Learn Emacs (2012)(david.rothlis.net)

69 points by adm_ 3 years ago | 30 comments

I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst(fransskarman.com)

477 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 275 comments

A blog post by Frans Skarman about writing his PhD thesis in Typst instead of LaTeX, covering what worked well and what didn't.

A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016)(karpathy.github.io)

156 points by vismit2000 7 months ago | 94 comments

Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science(beej.us)

332 points by amruthreddi 11 months ago | 126 comments

Landing page for Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science, a free work-in-progress beta guide offered in several HTML formats.

Docs like code in basic terms(deborahwrites.com)

57 points by DeborahWrites 1 year ago | 45 comments

Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes(dlt.github.io)

297 points by dlt 9 months ago | 15 comments

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.

Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)(cs.umd.edu)

326 points by luu 2 years ago | 155 comments

Ben Shneiderman's page at the University of Maryland listing his Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design, from Designing the User Interface.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)(howtomarketagame.com)

325 points by lopespm 2 years ago | 218 comments

A 2021 post on How To Market A Game advising game developers not to rely on platforms they don't control and to build owned channels instead.

AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment(edworkingpapers.com)

57 points by bryan0 20 days ago | 42 comments

An Annenberg EdWorkingPapers research paper page on a two-year school experiment evaluating AI tutoring with Khan Academy's Khanmigo.

The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press(windowsread.me)

495 points by Leftium 1 year ago | 216 comments

A Windows ReadMe newsletter post by Chris Hoffman recommending YouTube downloader tools and explaining how Google pressure keeps tech outlets from covering them.