M/PC – A Concatenative OS(wiki.xxiivv.com)

71 points by caminanteblanco 3 months ago | 10 comments

CSS Is Fun Again(pdx.su)

170 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 118 comments

Three ways to solve problems(andreasfragner.com)

119 points by 42point2 10 months ago | 20 comments

VPTERNLOG: when three is 100% more than two(pvk.ca)

42 points by signa11 1 year ago | 2 comments

JavaScript Gom Jabbar(frantic.im)

527 points by disadvantage 3 years ago | 238 comments

A satirical blog post framing reading a JavaScript package.json file as a Dune-style Gom Jabbar test of pain for veteran developers.

Rendering the Visible Spectrum(brandonli.net)

133 points by signa11 8 months ago | 23 comments

How to make sense of any mess(howtomakesenseofanymess.com)

412 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 120 comments

Website for Abby Covert's book "How to Make Sense of Any Mess," an introduction to information architecture for making sense of complex problems.

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)(xorvoid.com)

347 points by valyala 8 months ago | 72 comments

Blog post describing SectorC, a C compiler written in x86-16 assembly that fits in a 512-byte boot sector and supports a usable subset of C.

Introduction to Modern Statistics(openintro-ims2.netlify.app)

665 points by noelwelsh 3 years ago | 116 comments

Website for the free online textbook Introduction to Modern Statistics, Second Edition, by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Johanna Hardin from the OpenIntro project.

Web Browser Engineering (2021)(browser.engineering)

707 points by MrVandemar 2 years ago | 119 comments

Free online book by Pavel Panchekha and Chris Harrelson explaining how to build a basic but complete web browser in a couple thousand lines of Python.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)

463 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 222 comments

Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.

Things Every Hacker Once Knew (2017)(catb.org)

327 points by prakhar897 3 years ago | 172 comments

Eric S. Raymond's essay on obsolete computing lore once common among hackers, covering modems, RS232, octal, terminals, ASCII, and pre-Internet networks.