Read List

A list of links to various interesting ressources I wished to share on the internet !

March 2024

Some article I really enjoyed, sorted by “week” for now, with hopefully some tagging / sorting / searching coming up !

16-09-2024

How we trick ourselves into not progressing towards our goals: Do the real thing.

Super fun post full of anecdotes: Ugliest beautiful codebase.

09-09-2024

CSS 3D guide.

Content Driven Development.

On Consitency vs Intensity. And how consistency is not enough.

You don’t need discipline. Caring more than other is the same.

02-09-2024

Two great questions, and some help to maybe find part of their answers: A life well lived.

Information, influence and social media: An argument for logging off.

Clip path explanations && showcases: The magic of clip path.

Social media && attention: How I got my attention back.

26-08-2024

On becoming competitive when joining a new company

Really good mindset: You Are NOT Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites

12-08-2024

Some advices: Advice to the young.

Writing strategy: How I write.

29-07-2024

List of The basics. Really good things not shared enough.

How HEAD works in git

15-07-2024

Taste

Just: I don’t like that word

The analog web

22-05-2024

Short analogy to grow as a software engineer: From any spot on the field

So you want to make a game engine

When the vision isn’t manifesting

15-04-2024

If this one guy got hit by a bus the world software would fall apartutm_campaign=the-bird-a-nest-the-spider-a-web-man-friendship

Go deploy your stuff: WIP is Waste

Bullshit jobs

01-04-2024

How to not be stupid. It’s super super insightful.

Try hard and Are you serious? about what could happen if you tried hard.

So you sucks, now what? in how to handle failure.

Two frontends posts about css :

11-03-2024

Second part of the intro to neural nets. Step two: build a model that generate name from bigrams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaCmpygFfXo

Third part of the intro to neural nets. Step three: multilayer perceptron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCH_1BHY58I

These 4 posts about the history of AI, mentioning how Neural networks works and how Symbolic AI works as well:

04-03-2024

State machines && databases: https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/state-machines/

Golang used to monitor insulin needs: https://www.bytesizego.com/blog/keeping-alive-with-go

26-02-2024

Programming concepts explained via vizualistion:

Some thoughts on being able to give concise explanations: https://stephango.com/concise

And on the ephemerality of software: https://stephango.com/file-over-app

Quizz, do you know how fast comouters are ? https://computers-are-fast.github.io

18-02-2024

On media, statistics and anecdotes: https://gwern.net/littlewood

“At scale, anything that can happen will happen a small but nonzero times.”

Intro to neural nets, step one: micrograd. Some maths, but everything is well explained ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj-3S1tku0