Essays:

• Civilizational Primitives
• Investing in Synthesis
• Why Learn Compilers
• Computers Doing The Right Thing
• Learning to Fight
• The Hyperreal
• On Hosting Sites from Your Editor
• Ambition++; Reflecting on a decade of work
• Replit is not an IDE
• Why We Switched From MongoDB to PostgresSQL (GPT 3 post)
• Do What Makes The Best Story
• 50th Anniversary of The Mother of All Demos
• Leapfrogging the IDE
• Beware the Metagame
• Github and Open-source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged
• Be Grateful
• Mental Frames to Get Over Entrepreneurial Anxiety and Depression
• Dialectical Progress in Programming
• Disintegrated Development Environments — How Did We Get Here?
• Fake Minimalism
• 2016
• Kierkegaard and Entrepreneurship
• What is Perfectionism and How to Cure It
• John Carmack on Idea Generation
• Caching and Promises
• Eval as a Service
• The Stoic of Open Source
• Overcoming Intuition in Programming
• Easier Concurrent Programming in JavaScript with Async Functions
• Hello World
• Lesser-Known JavaScript Debugging Techniques
• Building an In-Browser JavaScript VM and Debugger Using Generators
• On VMs in JavaScript