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12 rules for living
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A Shapley example
A common trap for people entering programming jobs
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Amplifying a point from Dan Gross
An argument from Jimmy Koppel
Books I like more than other people do
Code correctly by conforming to the real world
Code review reference
How I got into programming
How academics can find non-academic work
Illustrative epistemic mistakes people made with the J4 hand
Listening notes: Jason Strasser on the Risk of Ruin podcast
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Listening notes: Russ Roberts and Tyler Cowen on reading
Listening notes: Sold a Story
Listening notes: Test and Code 191
Listening notes: The Pragmatic Programmer
Listening notes: Get Ready
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My information diet
Nate Meyvis
New site design
Notes on Tyler Cowen on relearning the Internet
Notes on a Bryan Cantrill talk
Notes on being the Day One chip leader
Notes on parenting
Notes on the Garrett Adelstein - Robbi Jade Lew hand
Notes on writing a static site generator
On (non-software) dependency management
On Anki's database
On Bryan Caplan's spreadsheets
On Conversations with Tyler
On Excel, context, and talent
On accidentally starting a newsletter
On actually reading the book
On capturing thoughts
On checklists, again
On coordinating intrapersonal skill levels
On dependencies
On dependencies in small projects
On distributing reading time
On editing text
On estimating the value of GitHub Copilot
On having philosophy in your life
On improving data-adjacent code
On learning Vim
On linear scans
On long books
On middlebrow books
On poker's comparative advantage
On poker's comparative disadvantage
On preparing for coding interviews
On productivity
On quadratic complexity
On ranking things
On ranking things
On reading The Diff
On reading canonical literature
On recovering
On scarcity and regionality
On self-experimentation in spaced repetition
On stop-losses
On studying for your upcoming job: objections and replies
On talking to think better
On task management
On the death of new music
On the scarcity of context
On trees and dimensionality
On type safety in natural language
On using Anki
On using Anki, again
On using a Kindle
On viewquakes
On winning auctions
Podcasting FAQ
Posts about programming
Python task manager from scratch, part 0: Introduction
Python task manager from scratch, part 10: Task objects
Python task manager from scratch, part 11: First bugfix
Python task manager from scratch, part 12: A Task repository
Python task manager from scratch, part 13: Fix a major mistake
Python task manager from scratch, part 14: Make an interface
Python task manager from scratch, part 15: Prepare the way
Python task manager from scratch, part 16: Making a first Web display
Python task manager from scratch, part 17: Generating some HTML
Python task manager from scratch, part 18: Adding a feature
Python task manager from scratch, part 19: Preparing the way II
Python task manager from scratch, part 1: First steps
Python task manager from scratch, part 20: Adding a form
Python task manager from scratch, part 21: Preparing the way III
Python task manager from scratch, part 22: Another Task field
Python task manager from scratch, part 23: Retrieving tasks by UUID
Python task manager from scratch, part 24: Supporting Task modification
Python task manager from scratch, part 25: Handling a bug
Python task manager from scratch, part 26: Adding task-completion functionality
Python task manager from scratch, part 27: Using a real database
Python task manager from scratch, part 28: Taking stock
Python task manager from scratch, part 29: Cosmetic improvements
Python task manager from scratch, part 2: First cleanup!
Python task manager from scratch, part 30: Adding a feature I want
Python task manager from scratch, part 31: Adding some style
Python task manager from scratch, part 32: More Task properties
Python task manager from scratch, part 33: Updating the persistence logic for tasks
Python task manager from scratch, part 34: Adding styles based on task states
Python task manager from scratch, part 35: Listing tasks from the command line
Python task manager from scratch, part 36: Preparing for recurring tasks
Python task manager from scratch, part 37: Fixing our coordinator
Python task manager from scratch, part 38: Add a license
Python task manager from scratch, part 39: Thinking about interfaces, again
Python task manager from scratch, part 3: Separating the data
Python task manager from scratch, part 40: Persisting task coordinators
Python task manager from scratch, part 41: Setting up event handling
Python task manager from scratch, part 42: Resolving a circular import
Python task manager from scratch, part 43: Preparing the way IV
Python task manager from scratch, part 44: Implementing repeating tasks
Python task manager from scratch, part 45: Supporting environments
Python task manager from scratch, part 46: Getting handlers under test
Python task manager from scratch, part 47: Tidying up the front end
Python task manager from scratch, part 4: Making functions
Python task manager from scratch, part 5: Setting up version control
Python task manager from scratch, part 6: Adding a .gitignore
Python task manager from scratch, part 7: Adding and removing tasks
Python task manager from scratch, part 8: Requirements management
Python task manager from scratch, part 9: First tests
Reading notes
Reading notes: A Philosophy of Software Design
Reading notes: A Widow For One Year
Reading notes: Crossroads
Reading notes: From Front Porch to Back Seat
Reading notes: How to Change
Reading notes: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Reading notes: Lonesome Dove
Reading notes: My Losing Season
Reading notes: Of Boys and Men
Reading notes: Patterns of Software
Reading notes: Super-Infinite
Reading notes: Talent
Reading notes: The Baseball 100
Reading notes: The End of Solitude
Reading notes: The Inner Game of Tennis
Reading notes: The Last Days of Roger Federer
Reading notes: The Manager's Path
Reading notes: The Remains of the Day
Reading notes: The Score Takes Care of Itself
Reading notes: The Three-Body Problem
Reading notes: The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles
Reading notes: There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather
Rubber duck text editing
Skills for academics
Software FAQ
Software design
The 100 books nearest to my heart
The Ideal of the Open Mind
The Lawnmower Essay and the Problems of Philosophy
The tweetstorm as a form
Veery: a Python project from scratch
Viewquake: Decisionmaking is overrated
Viewquake: interpreting obvious mistakes
Viewquake: making meaning after the fact
What is America's epic?
What's happening with data scientists?
Why don't people talk about the Shapley value more?
Why events?
Why my priors about cheating at poker are so high