Loose Ends (2018)(lastwordonnothing.com)

4 points by breathenew 2 years ago | 2 comments

Programming with Less Than Nothing(joshmoody.org)

407 points by signa11 1 year ago | 138 comments

A blog post by Josh Moody presenting a fictional interview where FizzBuzz is implemented in JavaScript using only S and K combinators.

Pasteur and the beer of national revenge (2017)(garshol.priv.no)

45 points by geox 2 years ago | 10 comments

Dostoyevsky isn't difficult(autodidacts.io)

212 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 268 comments

Why most of us won't be inventing little languages(slesinsky.org)

82 points by luu 3 years ago | 75 comments

The Craft of Experimental Physics (2015)(jameshedberg.com)

33 points by mdturnerphys 3 years ago | 13 comments

The midwit home(dynomight.substack.com)

367 points by stacktrust 3 years ago | 254 comments

A Dynomight newsletter essay arguing for a simpler smart home with less automation, after the frustrations of protocols like Z-Wave, Zigbee and MQTT.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

This I Believe (1952)(awakin.org)

139 points by ctoth 3 days ago | 79 comments

Robert A. Heinlein's 1952 "This I Believe" essay on the decency of neighbors and humanity, reposted on Awakin.org with reader reflections.

Reforming English Spelling(blog.oup.com)

33 points by jruohonen 3 days ago | 93 comments

OUPblog column by Anatoly Liberman arguing for a minimalist, gradual reform of English spelling and describing the English Spelling Society's recent congress.

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.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.