“We want it to really confuse people, but also really make people happy”(unsung.aresluna.org)

50 points by zdw 1 month ago | 18 comments

Good type against all odds(unsung.aresluna.org)

187 points by firloop 5 days ago | 24 comments

A blog post on Unsung, a software craft and quality blog, titled "Good type against all odds" about typography done well under constraints.

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay(unsung.aresluna.org)

277 points by rbanffy 6 months ago | 138 comments

As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program(unsung.aresluna.org)

172 points by allenc 2 months ago | 139 comments

"Traditional, but Puzzling"(unsung.aresluna.org)

42 points by colinprince 9 days ago | 7 comments

Blog post on the Unsung software craft blog about a puzzling Unix error message seen by users in the 1990s and its history.

A few interesting modern pixel fonts(unsung.aresluna.org)

402 points by zdw 5 months ago | 97 comments

A blog post on Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog highlighting several modern pixel fonts, starting with Andrew Gleeson's Analog Mono, a remake of the VCR OSD Mono font.

MVCC – the part of PostgreSQL we hate the most (2023)(cs.cmu.edu)

341 points by virtualwhys 2 years ago | 109 comments

Andy Pavlo blog post from April 2023 criticizing PostgreSQL's multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) implementation and its drawbacks.

How I Use "AI"(nicholas.carlini.com)

331 points by npalli 2 years ago | 148 comments

Nicholas Carlini's personal essay describing how he uses large language models in his research and programming work, arguing they are not over-hyped.

Worth Building(armstr.ng)

52 points by colinarms 20 days ago | 38 comments

A personal blog essay on how LLMs make it worthwhile to build small personal tools that previously wouldn't justify the effort.

Why blog if nobody reads it?(andysblog.uk)

681 points by alexgiann 1 year ago | 307 comments

A personal blog post from February 2025 arguing for the value of blogging even when few or no people read it.

How to post when no one is reading(jeetmehta.com)

598 points by j4mehta 1 year ago | 240 comments

Personal blog essay arguing creators should keep publishing through years of obscurity, since mastery and audience take a long time to build.

Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?(chronicle.com)

18 points by Anon84 3 days ago | 36 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay by Allison Stanger arguing analytical academic writing should be judged by quality rather than whether AI helped write it.