Bird brains (2023)(dhanishsemar.com)

331 points by DiffTheEnder 7 months ago | 208 comments

Personal blog essay on bird intelligence, prompted by a video of New Zealand kea parrots moving traffic cones near a tunnel by Milford Sound.

Git rebase -I is not that scary(cachebag.sh)

100 points by vinhnx 3 months ago | 122 comments

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.

My Friend Aaron(rorz.io)

562 points by sarreph 2 months ago | 152 comments

A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.

Feynman’s Maze-Running Story(gwern.net)

184 points by telotortium 3 years ago | 42 comments

Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig(alexalejandre.com)

367 points by veqq 3 months ago | 207 comments

Blog interview by Alex Alejandre with Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Vagrant and Terraform, discussing terminals, the Ghostty project, Zig, and open source.