Learning
159 articles
- Just Read the Paper
- Make sure it works first
- Feedback is a strange thing
- How to be witty and off-the-cuff as a slow deep thinker
- 3 sticky insights from 3 eng management books
- Why learning and teaching the good stuff is hard
- The best engineering books get good 5 years into your career
- The Buxton Index – why some are hard to work with
- What I learned from Do Hard Things
- Hard work doesn’t scale
- When's the last time you tried something new?
- Reader question: Should you learn the latest hotness?
- What coding tutorials and teachers get wrong
- Meetings – a senior engineer's secret weapon
- A great engineer knows their tools
- What I learned from Software Engineering at Google
- Your career needs a vision
- Do important work
- Can you code faster?
- Reflecting on 2020
- How I use delegation to get more done
- Should you take a pay cut for equity
- Computer science is not software engineering
- Why senior engineers get nothing done
- Why Understanding beats Knowledge
- Tech in 2021 according to a VC
- My favorite lessons from Pragmatic Programmer
- How my bank account went from $909 to $50,000 in 2019
- A holiday CompSci reading list for you 🎅
- "There's a YouTube video for everything"
- Hustle, life, and Bernoulli trials
- Coders, protect your hands; you won't like coding without em
- Build one to throw away
- The web moves fast, how do you keep up?
- What I loved about Reactathon 2019
- How Grit superchargers your career
- This kid is amazing
- When you don't think you're good enough
- Focus on the process, not the goal
- DRY is a footgun, remember to YAGNI
- When you code, write down everything
- Why you should write [code] every day
- Some life advice I learned from computer science
- Why you aren’t drowning in recruiters, too
- It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work – a review
- The joy of being a beginner
- How I sponsored my own genius visa
- Online workshops are MORE interactive than in-person workshops
- Answering some common questions about React + D3 2018
- The surprising benefit of hiring interns to write your code
- What Richard Feynman taught me about joy
- What's an intermediate dev anyway?
- What I learned at MicroConf Growth 2018
- Gratitude is hard – My first week with the Five Minute Journal
- Does blogging really drive sales?
- What I learned from Sherry Walling's Keeping Your Sh*t Together
- What I learned from Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
- How our engineering team got 12x faster using these 5 lessons about integrating 3rd-party services
- Working IN your career vs. ON your career
- Loops are the hardest
- Don't say yes when you're happy
- Am I thinking too small?
- How resumé-driven development shapes our industry
- What I learned from teaching StubHub about React and Redux
- $9013 September sidehustle report – or why the React + D3v4 launch was not 6 figures or even 5
- How to think of your business logic as data
- How I reverse-engineered Hacker News
- What I learned from So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
- Bernoulli's trials can tell you how many job applications to send
- Initial Results of my Patreon Experiment
- What I learned from Cal Newport's Deep Work
- Do you really need immutable data?
- How I Got Boned by Taxes Two Years in a Row
- Why People Read my Weekly Emails
- This is how I connected my Canon DSLR as a webcam
- Yet another hard lesson about time
- These 19 Words are the Only Self-Help & Business Advice You Need
- Go the fuck home
- My weekend at Forefront in New York
- Some facts about US household income
- My blog is the best resource online for "60*60"
- Publish every day
- I Got Schooled
- After a year, my first business diary retires
- Teaching beginners
- Things I learned from doing my first workshop
- Things I learned from doing my first workshop
- Why I switched to making products
- Does it even make sense to move to San Francisco?
- What I learned from Amanda Palmer's The Art of Asking
- What I learned from Kathy Sierra's Badass
- What I learned from Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
- Why offices are where work goes to die
- How a book I wrote in two weeks made $4,000 in its first month
- Week 20: Making ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc
- Week 19: Relativity theory and time perception
- Week 18: the role of diet in periodontal disease
- Week 17: What happens when you only eat meat for a year?
- Week 16: On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
- Week 15: A tutorial on the expressiveness and universality of fold
- Week 14, heuristic evaluation of user interfaces
- Week 13, constructing logic circuits in mammalian cells
- Week 12: practical cold boot attacks that will make cryptonerds shit their pants
- Week 11, Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
- Week 10, The myriad virtues of Wavelet Trees
- Week 9: Life at low Reynold's number
- Week 8: What a girl who plays rugby can teach organizational leaders
- Week 7: Time, Clocks, and Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
- Week 6, A query on confirmation
- Week 5: Random Structures from LEGO Bricks and Analog Monte Carlo Procedures
- Week 4: Tiny insects evolve anuclear neurons
- Week 3: Of lion manes and human beards
- Week 2: Level 1 of Super Mario Bros. is easy with lexicographic orderings and
- Week 1: Turing's On computable numbers
- Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
- I infiltrated another Rails Girls event, #RailsGirlsMb
- Learning me a Haskell
- I think I finally understand what a neural network is
- I suck at [formal] education or does education suck?
- Calorie counting is silly
- Mac OS X Lion and Wi-Fi
- Seems I am in love with learning
- A longboard and a school system
- KVM and the great outdoors
- The quickreading
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- Freelance teaching is great, or why C/Java/etc. are horrible teaching tools