Stories by alexharri

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

Personal Information

Rich Friend, Poor Friend (2022)

The Myth of Rational Design (2010)

The Age of Greater Reykjavík

Social dynamics of Bluetooth speakers (2022)

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie

Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013)

Arguing point-by-point considered harmful

Staring into the abyss as a core life skill (2022)

Amazon's Antitrust Paradox (2017)

AI is not our future

The Icelandic Voting System (2024)

Four Kinds of Optimisation (2023)

A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed

Animate to height: auto; (and other intrinsic sizing keywords) in CSS (2024)

Curve Families

Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance

Type assertions are not a substitute for non-null assertions

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