blog dump

#Monica Dinculescu

• I did an inktober and I want to tell you about it
• I fixed a pair of headphones with some soldering, and you can too!
• I don't really want to learn lldb, I just want to fix a crash
• Dear sir or madam: the bookmarklet you didn't know you needed
• Cocoa gems or: how this isn't about reimplementing Ruby in Objective-C

#jvns

• p much every blog post, project, zine, whatever

• nginx config playground omfg where was this when...

• common unexpected css pitfalls

• shell script dump for common ops

• mess with DNS

• how to debug a segfault

#thomas pynchon compendium

ditto for joyce, borges, kafka...

#shipwreck library

#Clear, James...

james clear

how to get motivated when you don't feel like it

#julian shapiro

• how to write a blog post

#benfrain.com

has been publishing sick stuff for as long as I've been alive p much; I'd bookmarked this one post about flexbox vs. table performance from 2014, and then checked if he was still at it, and lo:

• new flexbox perf article, just grid this time in 2024

#paul graham

• want wealth? make a startup!
• do great work summary:
  • The Foundations:
    • You need three things to do great work: natural aptitude, deep interest, and scope for great work
    • Finding what to work on is challenging and often requires trying different things
    • Develop a habit of working on your own projects rather than just following others' directions
    • Follow your genuine curiosity and interests rather than external pressure
  • The Process:
    • Learn enough to reach the frontier of knowledge in your field
    • Notice gaps and overlooked areas in existing knowledge
    • Boldly explore promising gaps, especially those others ignore
    • Work hard, but work on something you're deeply interested in
    • The most powerful motivators are curiosity, delight, and desire to do something impressive
  • Working Methods:
    • Make successive versions rather than planning everything in advance
    • Start small and evolve your work rather than trying to make something perfect immediately
    • Use the advantages of youth (energy, time, optimism) when young and the advantages of age (knowledge, efficiency, money) when older
    • Take appropriate risks - if you're not failing occasionally, you're being too conservative
    • Protect and nurture your morale - it's fundamental to doing great work
    • Find good colleagues - quality is more important than quantity
  • Important Mindsets:
    • Be earnest rather than affected or trying to seem impressive
    • Stay curious - it's perhaps the most important quality for doing great work
    • Don't worry about prestige - it's often a trailing indicator
    • Be willing to work on unfashionable problems
    • Questions are as important as answers - great work often comes from asking new questions
    • Overcome the modesty and fear that prevent many from attempting great work

#peter norvig blog

one of top 1000 most visited sites actually

#blog.codinghorror.com

Smart pants founder of stackoverflow.

#first monday

The first openly accessible, peer-reviewed journals solely devoted to research about the Internet.

the CEO of Obsidian actually

#stephango

• shitlist driven development
• file over app

plain text files should be z go to if you want to be able to use your same notes in 50 years, or have them readable by a machine no less (why I switched from Notion to Obsidian actually)

• reminder to self: be concise
• funnily enough I share many of the same habits: j