Deciphering basmala(blog.plover.com)
77 points by lordgrenville | 25 comments
77 points by lordgrenville | 25 comments
420 points by kamaraju | 134 comments
Mark Dominus blog post discussing a Math StackExchange calculus exercise integrating e^(x/2 - floor(x/2)) from 0 to 2000 and why it is a good problem.
408 points by pavel_lishin | 389 comments
Blog post by Mark Dominus imagining which modern inventions would or would not astonish Benjamin Franklin, from streetlights and the internet to Wikipedia and Moon landings.
609 points by emmorts | 147 comments
A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.
97 points by sagacity | 93 comments
A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.
411 points by birkey | 277 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author loves NixOS, focusing on the deterministic, reproducible Nix package manager rather than the Linux distro itself.
505 points by silcoon | 266 comments
A personal blog post by Elia Scotto explaining how he went from reading under ten books a year to about one a week, with tips for becoming a prolific reader.
395 points by speckx | 230 comments
A Reactor magazine column by Molly Templeton arguing it should be normal to love books you don't entirely understand.
106 points by dimonomid | 33 comments
A personal blog post on Pixel Ambacht listing ten lines of code that hold meaning for the author, whether written, copied, or memorable.